Zebre are ready to return to the field in the Guinness PRO14 in the penultimate home game of the ²⁰¹⁸⁄₁₉ season against Connacht.

The coaching staff, directed by the former Connacht head-coach Michael Bradley, opted for 4 changes compared to the 15 days ago game at the Thomond Park Stadium.

In fact Bellini and Brummer are back as starters after taking over from the bench, the same as the Italian-Argentine tight-head prop Ciccioli, who will earn his starting debut.

The last change is Renton, who will partner South African fly-half Brummer.

Here’s Zebre Rugby Club line-up for Saturday, April 6 match at Stadio Lanfranchi in Parma (Italy) for the 19th round of the Guinness PRO14 against the Irish side of Connacht. Kick-off at 6.30 pm local time:

15 Edoardo Padovani*

14 Mattia Bellini,

13 Giulio Bisegni

12 Tommaso Boni*

11 James Elliott

10 Francois Brummer

9 Joshua Renton

8 Renato Giammarioli*

7 Maxime Mbandà*

6 Jimmy Tuivaiti

5 George Biagi (cap)

4 David Sisi

3 Marco Ciccioli

2 Oliviero Fabiani

1 Andrea Lovotti*

Replacements:

16 Massimo Ceciliani*

17Daniele Rimpelli*

18 Giosué Zilocchi*

19 Leonard Krumov*

20 James Brown

21 Guglielmo Palazzani

22 Nicolas De Battista

23 Gabriele Di Giulio*

Head Coach: Michael Bradley

Not available for selection due to injury: Cruze Ah-Nau,Mattia Bellini, Eduardo Bello, Dario Chistolini,Giovanni Licata, Johan Meyer,Matteo Minozzi, Marcello Violi* and Giosué Zilocchi*

*Former member of the Italian Rugby Union National Academy “Ivan Francescato”

Referee: Ben Blain (Scottish Rugby Union)

Assistant Referees: Keith Allen (Scottish Rugby Union) e Andrea Spadoni (Federazione Italiana Rugby)

TMO: Andrew McMenemy (Scottish Rugby Union)

Live coverage of the game in Italy on live streaming on DAZN on www.dazn.com. Live text coverage of the game on www.pro14rugby.organd on Zebre Rugby twitter account with the official game hashtag #ZEBvCON