Treviso v Cardiff: Guinness PRO12 preview
Last Updated: 13/02/16 1:12pm
Cardiff Blues welcome back Welsh internationals Cory Allen and Kristian Dacey, who have been released back from Six Nations duty, for Saturday's Guinness PRO12 clash against Treviso.
Italian international Number Eight Manoa Vosawai is named in the back row and will face his former club.
Prop Taufa'ao Filise, lock Lou Reed and centre Garyn Smith are all recalled to the replacements bench.
"We've hit some good form in the Guinness PRO12 in recent weeks as we look to move up the table, but we're well aware of the challenge we will face in Italy against a Treviso team who will be fired-up to claim a victory," said head Coach Danny Wilson.
"We only need to look at our away game at Zebre earlier this season to fully understand that our attitude, preparation and performance must be right if we want to come away with the right result.
"It's good to see Cory Allen and Kristian Dacey back in the set-up, after they were released by Wales, and we look forward to seeing them both put in big displays for us in Italy"
Treviso are without 10 of their squad who are on Six Nations duty with Italy, however they are boosted by the return of Luca Morisi, Angelo Esposito and Dean Budd who are back from injury.
Treviso: 15 Jayden Hayward, 14 Ludovico Nitoglia, 13 Luca Morisi, 12 Alberto Sgarbi (c), 11 Tommaso Iannone, 10 Sam Christie, 9 Alberto Lucchese' , 1 Alberto De Marchi, 2 Luca Bigi, 3 Simone Ferrari, 4 Filo Paulo, 5 Tom Palmer, 6 Andrea De Marchi, 7 Marco Lazzaroni, 8 Dean Budd.
Replacements: 16 Federico Zani, 17 Matteo Muccignat, 18 Filippo Filippetto, 19 Jeff Montauriol, 20 Marco Barbini, 21 Chris Smylie, 22 Enrico Bacchin, 23 Angelo Esposito.
Cardiff Blues: 15 Rhys Patchell, 14 Blaine Scully, 13 Cory Allen, 12 Rey Lee-Lo, 11 Dan Fish, 10 Jarrod Evans, 9 Tavis Knoyle; 1 Thomas Davies, 2 Kristian Dacey, 3 Salesi Ma'afu, 4 Jarrad Hoeata, 5 James Down, 6 Josh Navidi, 7 Ellis Jenkins (c), 8 Manoa Vosawai.
Replacements: 16 Ethan Lewis, 17 Bradley Thyer, 18 Taufa'ao Filise, 19 Lou Reed, 20 Macauley Cook, 21 Tomos Williams, 22 Garyn Smith, 23 Aled Summerhill.
