Scotland v Italy: Six Nations 2025 – live
Scotland v Italy: Six Nations 2025 – live
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Another Six Nations campaign begins for Scotland and Italy here at Murrayfield, with both teams perched on a higher ledge on the rockface of improvement that at any time in the recent past. Gregor Townsend’s side are looking to move beyond the team that is pretty much the sporting manifestation of Sex Panther cologne: “60% of the time, it works every time”. Pushing into being in with a real shout of winning the whole thing come Super Saturday has to be the goal, as even with the loss of Sione Tuipulotu and a few others to injury this squad remains good enough to win the whole thing in this year of putatively less formidable opposition.
Italy had their best tournament in years in 2024. While the core of the squad that beat today’s opponents in Rome twelve months ago remains, they have since spluttered through a loss to Samoa, a hammering by Argentina and barely squeaked past Georgia among a litany of meh in the last nine months. Added to this is the wretched form of Benetton Treviso, the club side that makes up the vast majority of the national side. Gonzalo Quesada has worked some wonders with his team and his skills as a coach will be tested once more here. The playing talent is there, however.
