Ulster Rugby vs Zebre

ZEBRE PREVIEW

HEAD TO HEAD

ULSTER 13 ZEBRE 6

FRIDAY 20TH DECEMBER 2013 KINGSPAN STADIUM

MATCH STATS:

ULSTER TRY

ZEBRE PENALTIES

Jared Payne Ruan Pienaar

Tommaso Iannone Luciano Orquera

CONVERSION

Ruan Pienaar (2)

PENALTIES

FORM GUIDE The team are back at Kingspan Stadium for their first competitive game of the season tonight. Ulster’s only victory in their last five Guinness PRO12 encounters was 19-17 at Munster in Round 22 last season, with their 32-all draw in Llanelli on Saturday being their highest scoring draw in the history of the tournament. Ulster were defeated 20-22 on their most recent match in Belfast and have not lost back-to-back matches at Kingspan Stadium since April 2010. The Ulstermen’s only previous defeat to an Italian opponent in any tournament came at home to Treviso in the PRO12 in October 2011. Zebre have slipped to successive defeats, at Glasgow and at home to Cardiff Blues, whilst their only previous away victory came at Cardiff in round 3 last season. Ulster have won all four previous contests against Zebre although the Italians have garnered two losing bonus points and a try bonus point along the way.

ULSTER SCORERS

ZEBRE

U Z

DATE

VENUE

SCORERS

Sat 30 Nov 13 Stadio XXV Aprile

19 11

Darren Cave(T) Paddy Jackson(C/4P)

Guglielmo Palazzani(T) Gonzalo Garcia(2P)

Rob Herring(T) Ricky Andrew(T) Ruan Pienaar(3P) Robbie Diack(2T)

Daniel Halangahu(P)

Fri 15 Feb 13 Kingspan Stadium 26 3

Paddy Wallace(T) Niall O’Connor(C/5P) Penalty Try(T)

Sun 18 Nov 12 Stadio XXV Aprile

27 25

Daniel Halangahu(T/C/P) Tito Tebaldi(T) Dries van Schalkwyk(2T)

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