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French team v Italy
Marc Lievremont has made two changes to the starting XV for Sunday’s Six Nations match against Italy. Wing Marc Andreu and centre David Marty have been brought in for Julien Malzieu and Mathieu Bastareaud respectively.
Marc Andreu
David Marty
Bastareaud has been struggling with a calf injury and so moves to the bench with Malzieu.The other change sees Dimitri Yachvili come in for Frederic Michalak who is long term injured.
Marc Lievremont said:(quote) We wanted to see more of Marc Andreu than just the three minutes he played at Cardiff, he is having an excellent season at Castres, and it is the ideal occasion to throw him onto the big stage. (end quote)
Team
C Poitrenaud (Toulouse); M Andreu (Castres), D Marty (Perpignan), Y Jauzion (Toulouse), A Palisson (Brive); F Trinh-Duc (Montpellier), M Parra (Clermont Auvergne); T Domingo (Clermont Auvergne), W Servat (Toulouse), N Mas (Perpignan), L Nallet (Racing Metro), J Pierre (Clermont Auvergne) T Dusautoir (Toulouse, captain), J Bonnaire (Clermont Auvergne), I Harinordoquy (Biarritz).
Replacements: D Szarzewski (Stade Francais), J-B Poux (Toulouse), S Chabal (Racing Metro), A Lapandry (Clermont Auvergne), D Yachvili (Biarritz), M Bastareaud (Stade Francais), J Malzieu (Clermont Auvergne).
RBS SIX NATIONS Stade de France, Paris Sunday, 14 March Kick-off: 1430 GMT
