Italy vs Georgia Preview: Team News & Prediction | 2024 Autumn Internationals

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Italy will look to bounce back from their heavy defeat to Argentina last weekend when they entertaining an up-and-coming Georgia side on Sunday.

Start date/time: Sunday 17th November, 2024, UK – 1:40pm / US ET – 8:40am / US PT – 5:40am

How to watch on tv: UK – TNT Sport / US – Peacock

How to watch online: UK – discovery+ / US – Peacock

Italy Form: Battered by the Pumas

Head coach Gonzalo Quesada is picking up the pieces after a bruising 50-18 defeat to Argentina last weekend, with the Italians delivering an error-strewn display with handling errors plaguing them throughout the contest in Udine.

Italy were competitive in this year’s Six Nations campaign, losing just two of their five games, and they defeated both Tonga and Japan in their summer internationals, losing to Samoa.

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Georgia form: Pressuring the tier 1 nations

This is Georgia’s first Autumn Nations Series contest having not been in action since summer encounters with Fiji, Japan and Australia, losing two of those matches.

In general though, they have made great strides over last few years, including a win over Italy in 2022 in one of the only three meetings between the sides, Italy having won the other two.

LAST FIVE: LLLWL

Italy Team News:New front row

SQUAD: 15-Matt Gallagher, 14-Jacopo Trulla, 13-Juan Ignacio Brex, 12-Tommaso Menoncello, 11-Monty Ioane, 10-Paolo Garbisi, 9-Alessandro Garbisi, 8-Ross Vintcent, 7-Michele Lamaro (captain), 6-Sebastian Negri, 5-Dino Lamb, 4-Niccolo Cannone, 3-Simone Ferrari, 2-Giacomo Nicotera, 1-Danilo Fischetti

REPLACEMENTS: 16-Gianmarco Lucchesi, 17-Mirco Spagnolo, 18-Pietro Ceccarelli, 19-Riccardo Favretto, 20-Manuel Zuliani, 21-Alessandro Fusco, 22-Leonardo Marin, 23-Giulio Bertaccini

Georgia Team News: Lobzhanidze to skipper Georgians

Italy vs Georgia Prediction

Georgia are one of the nations hoping to break into the tier 1 bracket some day, but in order to do that they need to be regularly beating the likes of Italy, who fall towards the bottom end of that spectrum.

Indeed, the Italians are likely to be hurting after their heavy defeat to Argentina to last weekend, and with some key injuries in their roster, they could be there for the taking by this hungry Georgia side.

Italy vs Georgia Tip: Georgia to win