All You Need To Know | Benetton v Munster

26th January 2023 By The Editor

Malakai Fekitoa at training in UL. INPHO/Ben Brady

Munster travel to Italy this weekend for another big game in the URC as the province, who lie seventh in the table, take on sixth-placed Benetton.

See the URC table here and Munster’s remaining fixtures here.

Read the Munster team announcement here.

Find out all you need to know ahead of the game below.

Where?

Stadio Monigo, Treviso

When?

Saturday, 2.30pm Irish time/3.30pm local

Broadcast

Live on TG4, Premier Sports, Eurosport, Discovery +, Viaplay, SuperSport & URC TV.

Teams

Benetton: Rhyno Smith; Ignacio Mendy, Marco Zanon, Filippo Drago, Mattia Bellini; Jacob Umaga, Dewaldt Duvenage (C); Nahuel Tetaz, Siua Maile, Tiziano Pasquali; Marco Lazzaroni, Riccardo Favretto; Giovanni Pettinelli, Alessandro Izekor, Henry Stowers.

Replacements: Bautista Bernasconi, Thomas Gallo, Filippo Alongi, Nicola Piantella, Carl Wegner, Abraham Steyn, Manfredi Albanese, Marcus Watson.

Munster: Shane Daly; Calvin Nash, Antoine Frisch, Malakai Fekitoa, Liam Coombes; Joey Carbery, Paddy Patterson; Josh Wycherley, Niall Scannell (C), Roman Salanoa; Jean Kleyn, Fineen Wycherley; Jack O’Sullivan, John Hodnett, Alex Kendellen.

Replacements: Diarmuid Barron, Mark Donnelly, Stephen Archer, Cian Hurley, Ruadhan Quinn, Neil Cronin, Ben Healy, Rory Scannell.

Munster News

Squad Update

Gallery | Training Pics

Did you know?

Munster have six games remaining in the regular season of the URC with a number of teams jostling for position in the race for the knock-out stages and the battle for Champions Cup rugby next season.

Benetton are one place and one point above Munster having also played 12 games in the URC to date.

The Italian club are on a six-game winning streak and qualified for a home Challenge Cup round of 16 game thanks to a 35-32 victory over Stade Francais at the weekend.

Glasgow Warriors, Dragons, Scarlets, Edinburgh, Zebre, Ulster and Bayonne have all been beaten by Benetton at Stadio Monigo this season.

Their most recent URC game saw Benetton beat Ulster 31-29 thanks to a late Rhyno Smith penalty.