Schedules and Results

Italy vs Russia Rugby 2011 World Cup on 20 September 2011

Italy won the match 53 - 17 against Russia in Rugby 2011 World Cup at Eden Park, Auckland on 20 September 2011.

For once it was the Azzurri's backs, rather than their much-vaunted forwards, who grabbed the headlines in a nine-try win over Russia

Match Statistics
Italy   Russia
53 Final Score card 17
9 Tries 3
4 (5) Conversions (Missed) 1(2)
0 (1) Penalty Goals (Missed) 0 (0)
0 (0) Drop Goals (Missed) 0 (0)
1 Yellow Cards 0
0 Red Cards 0
Ball Possession
50% Full Match 50%
Territory
59% Full Match 41%
Time In Opposition 22
12'27'' Full Match 6'24''
Team Lineups
Italy
Salvatore Perugini , Fabio Ongaro , Lorenzo Cittadini , Quintin Geldenhuys , Marco Bortolami , Paul Derbyshire , Mauro Bergamasco , Sergio Parisse, Edoardo Gori , Riccardo Bocchino , Luke McLean, Matteo Pratichetti , Tommaso Benvenuti, Giulio Toniolatti , Andrea Masi

Replacements:
Tommaso D'Apice , Martin Castrogiovanni, Cornelius Van Zyl, Alessandro Zanni , Pablo Canavosio , Gonzalo Canale , Alberto Sgarbi
Russia
Vladimir Botvinnikov, Vladislav Korshunov, Ivan Prishchepenko, Alexander Voytov, Adam Byrnes, Vyacheslav Grachev, Andrey Garbuzov, Victor Gresev, Alexander Shakirov, Konstantin Rachkov, Vladimir Ostroushko, Alexey Makovetskiy, Andrey Kuzin, Vasily Artemyev, Igor Klyuchnikov

Replacements:
Valery Tsnobiladze, Alexander Khrokin, Denis Antonov, Artem Fatakhov, Alexander Yanyushkin, Mikhail Sidorov, Yury Kushnarev