Rugby World Cup 2023: what to look out for this weekend

29/09/2023 13:38

Ange Capuozzo will be winging it for Italy against New Zealand while Scotland chase a bonus-point win against luckless Romania

Ange Capuozzo started at full-back in Italy's win against against Uruguay last week and now returns to the wing for the Azzurri's Friday-night meeting with the All Blacks in Lyon. Tommaso Allan slots back in at No 15 having started at fly-half in Nice but will certainly stay on kicking duty, being 13 from 13 for the tournament. Capuozzo says rotation is all in a day's work for Italy's back line. "In any team we can swap places and be allocated here or there, so it's even more important to be on the lookout and listening out carefully to what the others say and how they behave. It is important for us to have a chance to experience different positions, I believe, to keep up a certain level of diversity in our configuration on the field. Between the 15 of us we don't have a problem to swap around." It's a fine balance between flexibility and confusion, but scoring five tries against Uruguay suggests things are working OK.