Munster head coach Anthony Foley says his side are desperate to get back to winning ways in the GUINNESS PRO12 clash against Treviso.

Munster fell to an opening-weekend 14-13 defeat at home to Edinburgh but two of Ireland's summer tourists to Argentina return to the fold, with Felix Jones captaining the province for the first time.

In total there are eight changes. James Cronin returns to the front row and is joined by hooker Duncan Casey and tighthead Stephen Archer.

In the second row, Dave Foley is another promoted from the bench while Tommy O'Donnell makes his first start of the season at flanker.

Robin Copeland is set to make his competitive debut for Munster at No.8 while Ivan Dineen makes his first PRO12 start of the season at inside centre.

Returning international full-back Jones leads the team out and will be looking to reverse a run of three league defeats.

Munster have not begun a season with a pair of losses since 2004/05 and head coach Foley wants to put things right.

“Last week’s defeat came down to Edinburgh turning up physically and us not playing well in our own ground, that hurt,” he told the Irish Examiner.

“We need to address these issues and we need to move on. We’ve a few more back in line this week.

“It is good to have these guys back, they have been training so hard and are enthusiastic to get back in.”

Munster’s only loss in their last five fixtures against Italian opponents came in this equivalent fixture in Treviso in round three last season.

Treviso, meanwhile, have slipped to four straight GUINNESS PRO12 defeats since their 45-27 victory at home to Newport Gwent Dragons in April.

The Italians have not beaten Irish opposition since Connacht visited Stadio Monigo in round five last season.
In order to change that coach Umberto Casellato has made two changes to the starting XV, and one on the bench.

He has selected Alberto Sgarbi among the replacements, while starting are Mat Luamanu at No.8 and Henry Seniloli at scrum-half.

At Stadio Monigo, 8pm local time (7pm Ireland & UK)

Referee: Andrew McMenemy (SRU, 31st competition game)
Assistant Referees: Giuseppe Vivarini, Cladio Blessano (both FIR)
Citing Commissioner: Maurizio Vancini (FIR)
TMO: Carlo Damasco (FIR)