USA international Langilangi Haupeakui and New Zealand-born Brian Alainu’uese are in line to make their Glasgow Warriors debuts on Friday night after being named on the bench for the game with Benetton Treviso.

Backrower Haupeakui joined the Guinness Pro12 club last month but has yet to feature, while Waikato lock Alainu’uese signed a deal until the end of this season earlier this week.

Both men have been named among the replacements for Friday night’s match at Scotstoun Stadium, as Tommy Seymour returns on the right wing and Mark Bennett comes in at outside centre.

Italy flanker Simone Favaro is in the starting line-up against his old side having made his return from injury off the bench against Munster and the Warriors have also changed the whole of their front row following last week’s Champions Cup 38-17 defeat to the Irish province.

Glasgow Warriors head coach Gregor Townsend said: “We’ve been boosted this week by the return of Tommy (Seymour), Peter (Horne), Corey (Flynn) and Lee (Jones).

“Langi (Haupeakui) and Brian (Alainu’uese) have settled in quickly and have trained well to earn an opportunity to be involved.

“Treviso ran us close at Scotstoun last season and we needed a late try to win the game, so we’ll need an improved performance tomorrow night.”

Glasgow Warriors’ last three matches in the Guinness PRO12 have all been won by the away side on the day, but they have only lost once at Scotstoun in the Guinness Pro12 since September 2015, when Ulster were the visitors in round four of this campaign.

The Warriors have won their last 20 matches against Italian opponents since their reversal to Treviso at Firhill Stadium in September 2011.

Benetton Treviso’s only win so far this season was 27-11 at home to Newport Gwent Dragons on September 23 and they are without a victory outside of Italy since round 22 of the 2012/13 season, when they were successful at Scarlets.

The Warriors have won their last nine matches against Treviso, whilst the Italian’s most recent success in Scotland was when they beat Edinburgh at BT Murrayfield in October 2012.

Treviso have made nine changes to the XV that lost 37-8 to Gloucester in the European Challenge Cup last week, as Luca Bigi, Nicola Quaglio, Filippo Gerosa, Dean Budd, Tito Tebaldi, Alberto Sgarbi, David Odiete, Tommaso Iannone and captain Alessandro Zanni all return.

And Zanni has called on his side to show more consistency moving forward, with the club sitting second from bottom in the Guinness Pro12.

The Italy international said: “There’s no one ‘big’ win, when we can get two or three victories consecutively, we will change mentality and we will develop.

“We need to be mentally stronger and play for 80 minutes, not just 60 and then collapse physically. We have to grow up and believe in what we have done.”

Overall Guinness PRO12 head to head record:
Played 12, Warriors won 10, Treviso won 2.

At Scotstoun Stadium, 7.35pm. Live on BBC Alba
Referee: David Wilkinson (IRFU, 46th competition game)
Assistant Referees: Sean Gallagher (IRFU), Kevin White (SRU)
Citing Commissioner: John Montgomery (SRU)
TMO: Kevin Beggs (IRFU)

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