Magners League Match Preview: Benetton Treviso v Edinburgh, Treviso; Fri 06 at 18:05 GMT, 20:05 local

May 06, 2011

Edinburgh won 21-9 on the two sides' only previous encounter in round eight of the Magners League.

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Benetton Treviso's only win in their last eight encounters was 19-16 at home to Glasgow Warriors on 16 April, and are now going for a second successive victory over opponents from Scotland.

Edinburgh have won three of their last four games in the Magners League. The Scotsmen have won just one away game in any competition since December 2009 - on their previous visit to Italy, 10-9 at Aironi on 2 October 2010.
The Teams:

Benetton Treviso: Luke McLean, Michele Sepe, Alberto Sgarbi, Gonzalo Garcia, Tommaso Benvenuti, Willem De Waal, Tobias Botes, Paul Derbyshire, Alessandro Zanni, Robert Barbieri, Corniel Van Zyl, Antonio Pavanello (capt), Lorenzo Cittadini, Leonardo Ghiraldini, Ignacio Fernandez Rouyet. Replacements: Franco Sbaraglini, Michele Rizzo, Matteo Muccignat, Benjamin Vermaak, Manoa Vosawai, Francesco Minto, Fabio Semenzato, Brendan Williams.

Edinburgh: Chris Paterson, Simon Webster, Nick De Luca, James King, Tim Visser, David Blair, Greig Laidlaw, Kyle Traynor, Andrew Kelly (capt), Geoff Cross, Scott MacLeod, Steven Turnbull, Stuart McInally, Ross Rennie, David Denton.

Replacements: Alun Walker, Lewis Niven, David Young, Craig Hamilton, Alan MacDonald, Jim Thompson, Lee Jones, Tom Brown.

Referee: Leo Colgan (IRFU,1st League game).
Assistant Referees: Stefano Traversi, Stefano Marrama (both FIR).