Italy 22-15 Ireland
Date:
Venue: Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Referee: Wayne Barnes (RFU)
Attendance: 60,000
Italy v Ireland Match Reports
Italy ended this year's Six Nations Championship in the same way that they began it - with a win. The Italians recorded their first ever Six Nations win over the Irish with a 22-15 victory in Rome. The only try of the match was scored by Italian wing Giovanbattista Venditti. A selection of match reports is listed below:
- BBC: Six Nations 2013: Italy 22-15 Ireland
- Guardian: Italy beat Ireland in Six Nations for the first time after 13 years
- Independent: Italy come of age with historic win against Ireland
- Telegraph: Italy 22 Ireland 15: match report
- Daily Mail: High times for Azzurri after first Six Nations win over Emerald Isle
- Sky Sports: Italy beat Ireland for first time in Six Nations with 22-15 win
- ESPN: Italy claim historic victory over Ireland
- RTE: Broken and battered Ireland fall to Italy
- Irish Times: Roman nightmare rounds off miserable Ireland campaign
- RBS 6 Nations: Italy claim historic RBS 6 Nations win over Ireland
- Sydney Morning Herald: Italy stun Ireland in Rome
Italy v Ireland Match Highlights
Italy v Ireland Match Statistics
Italy (9) 22
Tries: Venditti
Conversions: Orquera
Penalties: Orquera 4, Garcia
Ireland (6) 15
Penalties: Jackson 5
Man of the Match: Alessandro Zanni (Italy)
Italy Team Line-up
Forwards
- 1. Andrea Lo Cicero
- 2. Leonardo Ghiraldini
- 3. Lorenzo Cittadini
- 4. Quintin Geldenhuys
- 5. Joshua Furno
- 6. Alessandro Zanni
- 7. Simone Favaro
- 8. Sergio Parisse (Captain)
Backs
- 9. Edoardo Gori
- 10. Luciano Orquera
- 11. Luke Mclean
- 12. Gonzalo Garcia
- 13. Gonzalo Canale
- 14. Giovanbattista Venditti
- 15. Andrea Masi
Replacements
- 16. Davide Giazzon
- 17. Michele Rizzo
- 18. Alberto De Marchi
- 19. Antonio Pavanello
- 20. Francesco Minto
- 21. Paul Derbyshire
- 22. Tobias Botes
- 23. Tommaso Benvenuti
Ireland Team Line-up
Forwards
- 1. Cian Healy
- 2. Rory Best
- 3. Mike Ross
- 4. Mike McCarthy
- 5. Donnacha Ryan
- 6. Peter O'Mahony
- 7. Sean O'Brien
- 8. Jamie Heaslip (Captain)
Backs
- 9. Conor Murray
- 10. Jonathan Sexton
- 11. Keith Earls
- 12. Luke Marshall
- 13. Brian O'Driscoll
- 14. Craig Gilroy
- 15. Rob Kearney
Replacements
- 16. Sean Cronin
- 17. David Kilcoyne
- 18. Stephen Archer
- 19. Devin Toner
- 20. Iain Henderson
- 21. Paul Marshall
- 22. Paddy Jackson
- 23. Luke Fitzgerald