Italy 31 - 24 Japan : Post Match Discussion - PICS OF HOSTESS INCLUDED

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Italy were forced to come from behind at half-time to beat Japan 31-24 in a World Cup warm up Test in Cesena on Saturday.

The Azzurri trailed 17-14 at half time before two second half tries courtesy of their experienced front row saved the day.

More to follow...

The scorers:

For Italy:
Tries: Pratichetti, Gori, Ghiraldini, Lo Cicero
Cons: Bocchino 3, Orquera
Pens: Orquera

For Japan:
Tries: Usuzuki, Taira, penalty try
Cons: Arlidge 3
Pens: Arlidge

Yellow card: Lo Cicero (Italy - 62nd min) ; Horie (Japan -73rd min)

Italy: 15 Luke McLean, 14 Giulio Toniolatti, 13 Alberto Sgarbi, 12 Matteo Pratichetti, 11 Tommaso Benvenuti, 10 Riccardo Bocchino, 9 Edoardo Gori, 8 Sergio Parisse (c), 7 Mauro Bergamasco, 6 Alessandro Zanni, 5 Marco Bortolami, 4 Quintin Geldenhuys, 3 Lorenzo Cittadini, 2 Leonardo Ghiraldini, 1 Andrea Lo Cicero.
Replacements: 16 Tommaso D'Apice, 17 Martin Castrogiovanni, 18 Cornelius Van Zyl, 19 Paul Derbyshire, 20 Pablo Canavosio, 21 Luciano Orquera, 22 Gonzalo Canale.

Japan: 15 Shaun Webb, 14 Kosuke Endo, 13 Koji Taira, 12 Ryan Nicholas, 11 Takeisa Usuzuki, 10 James Arlidge, 9 Fumiaki Tanaka , 8 Ryukoliniasi Holani, 7 Michael Leitch, 6 Takashi Kikutani(c, 5 Toshizumi Kitagawa, 4 Justin Ives, 3 Kensuke Hatakeyama, 2 Shota Horie , 1 Hisateru Hirashima.
Replacements: 16 Hiroki Yuhara, 17 Nozomu Fujita, 18 Luke Thompson , 19 Tadasuke Nishihara, 20 Atsushi Hiwasa, 21 Alisi Tupuailai , 22 Murray Williams.

Venue: Stadio Dino Manuzzi, Cesena, Italy
Referee: Romain Poite (France)
Assistant referees: Jérôme Garces (France), Pascal Gauzere (France)
TMO: Tony Redmond (Ireland)

doctor_grey wrote:Alyn, thanks for the pix. Just sat down to my computer a few minutes ago after a long, long day, and this is exactly what I needed to see. You are my hero...........

I love the top picture!
How can they do their job looking at her like that, lol.
Dominguez was actually really struggling to string a sentence together.

606 V2 should have a caption competition for that top picture.

I wonder whether Silvio Berlusconi helped her land her job?

doctor_grey wrote:I wonder whether Silvio Berlusconi helped her land her job?

If he knew her, she'd be in his hotel room surely?

Missed the last 15 mins of the game. But the Japanese 13 was having a good game. Ran a top line for his try.

Guess the Italian power up front was just a bit too much in the end.

Alyn,
You are right, of course. But wouldn't need to come up for air, at least once?

doctor_grey wrote:Alyn,
You are right, of course. But wouldn't need to come up for air, at least once?

Nope I'd die happy with her

Yeah, I could do that too. But not right after you. No offense.

In case I haven't said this already, can I just add....



PHWOARRRRR

I'm not sure if this is the best way round, or to give her a chair and take away the table...