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2025 Six Nations starting line ups: Round two

BY Jack Tunney  ·  Friday Feb 7, 2025

The 2025 Six Nations continues on Saturday when Italy host Wales and England welcome France to the Allianz Stadium in the afternoon. The weekend will close on Sunday as three-peat hopefuls Ireland head to Murrayfield to upset the in-form Scotland.

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Here are the teams:

Italy vs Wales

Italy: Tommaso Allan; Ange Capuozzo, Juan Ignacio Brex, Tommaso Menoncello, Monty Ioane; Paolo Garbisi, Martin Page-Relo; Danilo Fischetti, Giacomo Nicotera, Simone Ferrari; Niccolò Cannone, Federico Ruzza; Sebastian Negri, Michele Lamaro (capt), Lorenzo Cannone.

Replacements: Gianmarco Lucchesi, Luca Rizzoli, Marco Riccioni, Dino Lamb, Manuel Zuliani, Ross Vintcent, Alessandro Garbisi, Jacopo Trulla.

Wales: Leigh Williams; Cameron Rogers, Nick Tompkins, Joe James, Josh Adams; Ben Thomas, Tomos Williams; Gareth Thomas, Evan Lloyd, Harri Thomas; Will Rowlands, Dafydd Jenkins; James Botham, Jac Morgan (capt), Taulupe Faletau.

Replacements: Elliot Dee, Kemsley Smith, Keiron Assiratti, Freddie Thomas, Aaron Wainwright, Rhys Williams, Cai Edwards, Jacob Murray.

England vs France

England: Marcus Smith; Tommy Freeman, Ollie Lawrence, Henry Slade, Ollie Sleightholme; Fin Smith, Alex Mitchell; Ellis Genge, Luke Cowan-Dickie, Will Stuart; Maro Itoje (capt), George Martin; Tom Curry, Ben Earl, Jack Willis.

Replacements: Jamie George, Finn Baxter, Joe Heyes, Ollie Chessum, Chandler Cunningham-South, Ben Curry, Harry Randall, Elliot Daly.

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France: Thomas Ramos; Damian Penaud, Pierre-Louis Barrassi, Yoram Moefana, Louis Bielle-Biarrey; Matthieu Jalibert, Antoine Dupont (capt); Jean-Baptiste Gros, Peato Mauvaka, Uini Atonio; Alexandre Roumat, Emmanuel Meafou, François Cros, Paul Boudehent, Grégory Alldritt.

Replacements: Julien Marchand, Cyril Baille, Georges-Henri Colombe, Hugo Auradou, Mickaël Guillard, Oscar Jegou, Nolann Le Garrec, Émilien Gailleton.

Scotland vs Ireland

Scotland: Blair Kinghorn; Darcy Graham, Huw Jones, Tom Jordan, Duhan van der Merwe; Finn Russell, Ben White; Rory Sutherland, Dave Cherry, Zander Fagerson; Jonny Gray, Grant Gilchrist; Matt Fagerson, Jamie Ritchie, Rory Darge, Jack Dempsey.

Replacements: Ewan Ashman, Pierre Schoeman, Will Hurd, Sam Skinner, Gregor Brown, Jamie Ritchie, Jamie Dobie, Stafford McDowall.

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Ireland: Hugo Keenan; Mack Hansen, Robbie Henshaw, Bundee Aki, James Lowe; Sam Prendergast, Jamison Gibson-Park; Andrew Porter, Ronan Kelleher, Finlay Bealham; James Ryan, Tadhg Beirne; Peter O’Mahony, Josh van der Flier, Caelan Doris (capt).

Replacements: Dan Sheehan, Cian Healy, Tom Clarkson, Ryan Baird, Jack Conan, Conor Murray, Jack Crowley, Garry Ringrose.

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