Match Preview: Benetton Rugby Treviso v Ulster Rugby

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Match Preview: Benetton Rugby Treviso v Ulster Rugby

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finding myself becoming thoroughly more depressed the longer this season goes on.

Six consecutive away defeats. That is just an embarrassing statistic to be associated with – for a team that is expected to finish in the top four of the Pro12 at the end of the season, we shouldn’t even be close to six consecutive losses, and when you consider one of them was in Parma to bottom side Zebre, it becomes even more humiliating. There are serious questions to be asked of this Ulster side because for the past six weeks we have not looked at the races.

Wins over the Scarlets and Connacht at Ravenspan/Spanners/Kinghill have masked six incredibly disheartening and dispiriting performances and since our visit to Thomond Park in late November we have been devoid of consistency, clinical finishing and, to be quite frank, any good ideas. Last Saturday’s defeat at the RDS was a typical example of an Ulster defeat – dominant in the first half but without the points to show for it, and then once the pressure came on in the second 40 we buckled.

Now outside the top four, where we probably belong based on our current form, we now face a trip to Treviso which, on paper, looks relatively simple, but in reality is anything but. Actually, let me rephrase – it should be relatively simple, but then again, when is anything when Ulster are involved? We’ve never performed well in Italy when it comes to the Pro12 and on our current form you can’t see us producing a performance to buck that trend.

Meanwhile, Treviso are in good form. Well, two wins on the bounce is good form for either of the Italian sides, even if those two wins were against Zebre. It is a real shame that Treviso never pressed on from that impressive seventh placed finish two seasons ago and now find themselves once again vying it out with Zebre for that final Champions’ Cup place for next year, a position nobody wants to find themselves in.

Losing Franco Smith was a huge loss for the Benetton team, as well as several key playmakers in Michele Rizzo, Manoa Vosawai and Kris Burton. Unable to replace like for like, Treviso have only recorded the two wins this season and are a shadow of the team that terrorised sides when they visited the Stadio di Monigo. Even so, they were able to restrict Leinster to a 24-24 draw a few weeks ago, and their wins over Zebre at least for the moment solidify their position as Italy’s premier side.

The scalp of one of the league’s top teams would only further their campaign for a berth in Europe’s top club competition next season. Despite losing Rizzo, Vosawai and Burton, they still managed to keep hold of danger man Michele Campagnaro in defence, while the experience of locks Antonio Pavanello and Corniel van Zyl beef up a rather inexperienced pack. Treviso are on the up, and with the Dragons in their sights above them, they will fancy this game as their third four-pointer of the season.

But the ball is firmly in our court. We should not be losing to the likes of Treviso, and even though we lost to Zebre back in September, that was when we were down a man for the majority of the game and but for Peter Funkygibbon intervening we could have won it too. If we lose this week there will be some serious questions asked (if there aren’t already), so the players will know exactly what is at stake.

We’re well overdue some good fortune.

Treviso make seven changes to the team that defeated Zebre last weekend, three of those coming in the backs and four up front. Luca Morisi comes into the team from the bench at inside centre, while on the wing Andrea Pratichetti is given the start. Edoardo Gori also moves up from the bench to start at scrum-half alongside Sam Christie. Up front Rupert Harden is recalled at tighthead prop and he will have former Scarlets lock Tomas Vallejos packing down behind him as two more changes. In the back row Marco Barbini and Alessandro Zanni both make the step up from the replacements to the starting XV with the latter captaining the team from openside flanker.

Despite losing last weekend, Neil Doak has made just two changes to the side that lost in the RDS. Louis Ludik comes back from being rested to start at full-back with Peter Nelson dropping to the bench. Franco van der Merwe is rested this week so Alan O’Connor is promoted to the starting line-up at lock. Jared Payne is named among the replacements in his return from injury.

With this being our final league game before the Pro12 takes its annual hiatus for the first few weeks of the Six Nations, there is a sense of last chance saloon – this is our last opportunity to get a much-needed win on the board, and preferably one with the four-try bonus point thrown in there as well. If we can manage that, we keep pace for another week, and possibly push ourselves back up into the play-off places if results go our way.

However I wouldn’t be too sure of our own victory yet, let alone others…

Benetton Rugby Treviso v Ulster Rugby
Sunday 11th January, 14:00
Stadio di Monigo
Guinness PRO12 – Round 13

Live on BBC2 NI

BENETTON RUGBY TREVISO
15. Jayden Hayward, 14. Angelo Esposito, 13. Michele Campagnaro, 12. Luca Morisi, 11. Andrea Pratichetti, 10. Sam Christie, 9. Edoardo Gori; 1. Matteo Zanusso, 2. Davide Giazzon, 3. Rupert Harden, 4. Tomas Vallejos, 5. Corniel van Zyl, 6. Marco Barbini, 7. Alessandro Zanni (capt.), 8. Dean Budd.

16. Albert Anae, 17. Jose Francisco Novak, 18. D’Arcy Rae, 19. Marco Fuser, 20. Francesco Minto, 21. Meyer Swanepoel, 22. James Ambrosini, 23. Alberto Lucchese.

ULSTER RUGBY
15. Louis Ludik, 14. Tommy Bowe, 13. Darren Cave, 12. Stuart Olding, 11. Craig Gilroy, 10. Paddy Jackson, 9. Ruan Pienaar; 1. Callum Black, 2. Rory Best (capt.), 3. Wiehahn Herbst, 4. Alan O’Connor, 5. Dan Tuohy, 6. Robbie Diack, 7. Clive Ross, 8. Roger Wilson.

16. Rob Herring, 17. Andrew Warwick, 18. Bronson Ross, 19. Lewis Stevenson, 20. Sean Reidy, 21. Paul Marshall, 22. Jared Payne, 23. Peter Nelson.

Referee: Ben Whitehouse (WRU, 2nd competition game)
Assistant Referees: Wayne Davies, Barrie Gregory (both WRU)
TMO: Derek Bevan (WRU)
Timekeeper: Vittorio Barzan (FIR)
Assessor: Gabriele Villari (FIR)[/tag]
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