Italy player ratings vs Wales: 2025 Six Nations

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Italy player ratings vs Wales as the Azzurri record back-to-back championship wins against the Welsh for the first time in Rome.

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Italy: 22

  • Tries:Ange Capuozzo (19′)
  • Cons:Tommaso Allan (20′)
  • Pens:Tommaso Allan (06′, 28′, 33′, 60′,73′)

Wales: 15

  • Tries:Aaron Wainwright (68′), Penalty(78′)
  • Cons: Penalty (78′)
  • Pens:Ben Thomas (16′)

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Italy player ratings vs Wales:

1. Danilo Fischetti – 8
Dominated the scrums and powered through traffic.

2. Giacomo Nicotera – 8
Perfect at set-piece time. Off at 50 minutes.

3. Marco Riccioni – 7
Strong in the scrums and hefty in defence. Off with his hooker.

4. Niccolò Cannone – 9
Embarrassed the Welsh lineout in the first half.

5. Federico Ruzza – 9
See Cannone.

6. Seb Negri – 7
Gave an hour of heft and grunt to a leading pack before making way.

7. Michele Lamaro – 8
Led with aplomb as usual. 100% in defence.

8. Lorenzo Cannone – 9
Dominated the carries and tackles despite only playing 60 minutes.

9. Martin Page-Relo – 9
His best game yet. Always in control of proceedings.

10. Paolo Garbisi – 9
The puppet master. Italy’s most important player.

11. Monty Ioane – 8
Like a bullet train chasing down kicks.

12. Tommaso Menoncello – 7
Didn’t reach his very high standards but monstered Ben Thomas to start the second half.

13. Ignacio Brex – 8
Brex does what Brex does. Worth his weight in gold to Italy.

14. Ange Capuozzo – 7
Not his favoured position, but with Allen in a new lease of life, has adapted to scoring his tries out wide.

15. Tommaso Allan – 8
Controlled the game from the boot. Missed a couple of penalties which nearly came back to haunt him.

Replacements

16. Gianmarco Lucchesi – 7

17. Luca Rizzoli – 6

18. Simone Ferrari – 6

19. Dino Lamb – 5
Conceded a penalty try with two minutes left that brought Wales back into the game.

20. Manuel Zuliani – 7

21. Ross Vintcent – 7

22. Alessandro Garbisi – N/A

23. Jacopo Trulla – N/A

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