Italy tour - Murrayfield, 20 August 2011, 17:00 local, 16:00 GMT
Scotland (13) 23 - 12 (7) Italy (FT)

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Summary

Time Score  
2 3 - 0

Dan Parks opens the scoring for Scotland with a penalty early on

9 8 - 0

Scotland are well and truly up and running against Italy. Max Evans made a powerful dart and was not held in the tackle, so kept going. He then fed it inside to Dickinson who rounded the move off

10 10 - 0

Parks - conversion

23 10 - 5

Italy hit back at Murrayfield as Tommaso Benvenuti streaks away and scores his first try for Italy after exploiting some sloppy Scottish defence

24 10 - 7

Bergamasco - conversion

40 13 - 7

After missing a drop-goal attempt Dan Parks gains a reprieve as Italy are penalised a Parks punishes them with three points

48 13 - 12

Semenzato - try

52 18 - 12

Mike Blair responds with Scotland's second try of the afternoon as charges down Masi's clearance and dives on the ball

53 20 - 12

Parks - conversion

55 23 - 12

Scotland extend their lead with a Dan Parks penalty to make it 23-12 against Italy

Timeline

Time Scotland  Score  Italy
0 start of first half start of first half
2 Parks - penalty goal 3 - 0
9 Dickinson - try 8 - 0
10 Parks - conversion 10 - 0
23 10 - 5 Benvenuti - try
24 10 - 7 Bergamasco - conversion
40 Parks - penalty goal
end of first half		 13 - 7 end of first half
40 start of second half start of second half
d'Apice - sub on
Ongaro - sub off
48 13 - 12 Semenzato - try
51 del Fava - sub off
Furno - sub on
52 Blair - try 18 - 12
53 Parks - conversion 20 - 12
54 Low - sub off
Murray - sub on
55 Walker - sub on
Danielli - sub off
Parks - penalty goal		 23 - 12
56 Bocchino - sub on
Orquera - sub off
61 Jackson - sub on
Gray - sub on
Cusiter - sub on
Parks - sub off
Hines - sub off
Blair - sub off
62 Zanni - sub on
Derbyshire - sub off
70 Hall - sub on
Lawson - sub off
71 Cittadini - sub on
Lo Cicero Vaina - sub off
74 Vernon - sub off
Rennie - sub on
76 Canale - sub off
Gori - sub on
80 end of second half
end of half		 end of second half
end of half
0
80

Notes

 
Result Scotland won by a margin of 11 points
 
Ground name Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Attendance 20245
 
Referee D Pearson (England)
 
Scotland Test debuts none
Italy Test debuts RJ Furno

Teams

Scotland Italy
Tries Dickinson (9), Blair (52) Tries Benvenuti (23), Semenzato (48)
Cons Parks (10, 53) Cons Bergamasco (24)
Pens Parks (2, 40, 55) Pens none
    Team
15 FB
Rory Lamont
14 W
Max Evans
13 C
Nick de Luca
12 C
Graeme Morrison
11 W
Simon Danielli
10 FH
Dan Parks
9 SH
Mike Blair
1 P
Alasdair Dickinson
2 H
Scott Lawson
3 P
Moray Low
4 L
Nathan Hines
5 L
Alastair Kellock (c)
6 F
Kelly Brown
7 F
John Barclay
8 N8
Richie Vernon
    Replacements
16 H
Dougie Hall
17 P
Euan Murray
18 L
Richie Gray
19 N8
Ross Rennie
20 SH
Chris Cusiter
21 FH
Ruaridh Jackson
22 W
Nikki Walker
    Team
15 FB
Andrea Masi
14 W
Tommaso Benvenuti
13 C
Gonzalo Canale
12 C
Gonzalo Garcia
11 W
Mirco Bergamasco
10 FH
Luciano Orquera
9 SH
Fabio Semenzato
1 P
Andrea Lo Cicero Vaina
2 H
Fabio Ongaro
3 P
Martin Castrogiovanni
4 L
Carlo Antonio del Fava
5 L
Cornelius van Zyl
6 F
Paul Derbyshire
7 F
Robert Barbieri
8 N8
Sergio Parisse (c)
    Replacements
16 H
Tommaso d'Apice
17 P
Lorenzo Cittadini
18
Marco Bortolami
19 L
Josh Furno
20 C
Edoardo Gori
21 FH
Riccardo Bocchino
22 F
Alessandro Zanni

Match stats

Scotland   Italy
2 Tries 2
2 from 2 Conversion goals 1 from 2
3 from 5 Penalty goals 0 from 1
71.4% Kick at goal success 33.3%
0 (1 missed) Dropped goals 0
Kick/pass/run
21 Kicks from hand 25
145 Passes 111
90 Runs 90
315 Metres run with ball 363
Attacking
49% Possession 51%
45% Territory 55%
4 Clean breaks 2
7 Defenders beaten 2
13 Offloads 10
71 from 76 (93.4%) Rucks won 68 from 73 (93.2%)
1 from 1 (100.0%) Mauls won 1 from 2 (50.0%)
11 Turnovers conceded 11
Defensive
91/2 Tackles made/missed 88/7
97.9% Tackling success rate 92.6%
Set pieces
8 won, 0 lost (100.0%) Scrums on own feed 9 won, 1 lost (90.0%)
7 won, 3 lost (70.0%) Lineouts on own throw 6 won, 2 lost (75.0%)
Discipline
6 Penalties conceded 14
0/0 Yellow/red cards 0/0

Scot stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Lamont 0/0 0 1/4/10 78 0 4 0 1 1/1 0/0 0 0/0
W Evans 0/1 0 0/4/7 25 1 1 4 0 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
C de Luca 0/0 0 1/8/6 61 1 1 0 0 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Morrison 0/0 0 1/5/4 2 0 0 0 0 8/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Danielli 0/0 0 0/3/5 5 0 0 1 3 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
FH Parks 0/0 13 5/26/2 12 0 0 1 0 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
SH Blair 1/0 5 3/42/4 5 0 0 0 3 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Dickinson 1/0 5 0/0/4 13 0 0 0 1 9/0 0/0 1 0/0
H Lawson 0/0 0 0/1/4 3 0 0 1 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Low 0/0 0 0/0/1 4 0 0 0 0 6/0 0/0 2 0/0
L Hines 0/0 0 0/5/3 12 1 0 1 1 6/0 2/0 0 0/0
L Kellock 0/0 0 0/4/2 4 0 0 0 1 7/0 3/0 0 0/0
F Brown 0/0 0 0/3/10 18 0 0 0 0 9/0 1/0 0 0/0
F Barclay 0/0 0 0/7/3 3 0 0 0 0 10/0 0/0 1 0/0
N8 Vernon 0/0 0 0/5/10 26 1 1 3 0 5/1 1/0 0 0/0
(H) Hall 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Murray 0/0 0 0/0/2 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Gray 0/0 0 0/1/3 4 0 0 0 1 1/0 0/0 1 0/0
(N8) Rennie 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(SH) Cusiter 0/0 0 1/13/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(FH) Jackson 0/0 0 1/13/4 22 0 0 2 0 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
(W) Walker 0/0 0 1/1/5 18 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
Key:  T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

Italy stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Masi 0/0 0 4/3/12 100 0 0 2 2 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Benvenuti 1/0 5 2/1/2 50 1 1 0 1 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Canale 0/0 0 0/4/8 23 0 0 1 4 3/0 0/0 1 0/0
C Garcia 0/0 0 0/3/5 26 0 0 1 0 9/2 0/0 0 0/0
W Bergamasco 0/0 2 0/4/4 23 0 0 0 0 6/0 0/0 3 0/0
FH Orquera 0/0 0 3/11/4 0 0 0 0 1 4/0 0/0 0 0/0
SH Semenzato 1/0 5 7/61/4 15 0 1 0 0 6/0 0/0 1 0/0
P Lo Cicero Vaina 0/0 0 0/0/2 5 0 0 0 0 4/1 0/0 1 0/0
H Ongaro 0/0 0 0/0/3 9 0 0 0 0 0/1 0/0 1 0/0
P Castrogiovanni 0/0 0 0/0/8 6 0 0 0 0 5/0 1/0 1 0/0
L del Fava 0/0 0 0/0/3 12 0 0 1 0 7/0 0/0 0 0/0
L van Zyl 0/0 0 0/3/5 4 0 0 0 0 7/0 2/2 2 0/0
F Derbyshire 0/0 0 0/3/1 3 0 0 0 0 8/0 1/0 0 0/0
F Barbieri 0/0 0 0/0/7 25 0 0 1 0 9/0 0/0 0 0/0
N8 Parisse 0/0 0 1/6/6 17 0 0 1 0 3/1 1/0 1 0/0
(H) d'Apice 0/0 0 0/0/5 11 0 0 0 0 7/1 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Cittadini 0/0 0 0/0/2 12 1 0 1 1 1/1 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Furno 0/0 0 0/0/3 1 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(C) Gori 0/0 0 1/0/1 9 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(FH) Bocchino 0/0 0 2/12/2 8 0 0 1 1 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(F) Zanni 0/0 0 0/0/3 4 0 0 1 1 2/0 1/2 0 0/0
Key:  T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

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