TheBreakdown
Full time13 August 2011
Italy
31–24
Japan
Stadio Dino Manuzzi, Cesena, Italy · Men's Internationals 2011Head-to-head

Italy won by 7 points.

Scoring

  1. 4’TItaly try · Matteo Pratichetti5–0
  2. 5’CItaly conversion · Riccardo Bocchino7–0
  3. 12’TItaly try · Edoardo Gori12–0
  4. 13’CItaly conversion · Riccardo Bocchino14–0
  5. 23’TJapan try · Takehisa Usuzuki14–5
  6. 24’CJapan conversion · James Arlidge14–7
  7. 29’TJapan try · Koji Taira14–12
  8. 30’CJapan conversion · James Arlidge14–14
  9. 39’PJapan penalty · James Arlidge14–17
  10. 46’TItaly try · Leonardo Ghiraldini19–17
  11. 47’CItaly conversion · Riccardo Bocchino21–17
  12. 58’TItaly try · Andrea Lo Cicero26–17
  13. 59’CItaly conversion · Luciano Orquera28–17
  14. 64’TJapan try28–22
  15. 65’CJapan conversion · James Arlidge28–24
  16. 75’PItaly penalty · Luciano Orquera31–24

Line-ups

Italy

  1. 1Andrea Lo CiceroProp
  2. 2Leonardo GhiraldiniHooker
  3. 3Lorenzo CittadiniProp
  4. 4Quintin GeldenhuysSecond row
  5. 5Marco BortolamiSecond row
  6. 6Alessandro ZanniFlanker
  7. 7Mauro BergamascoFlanker
  8. 8Sergio ParisseNumber 8
  9. 9Edoardo GoriScrum-half
  10. 10Riccardo BocchinoFly-half
  11. 11Tommaso BenvenutiWing
  12. 12Matteo PratichettiCentre
  13. 13Alberto SgarbiCentre
  14. 14Giulio ToniolattiWing
  15. 15Luke McLeanFull-back
  16. 16Tommaso D'ApiceBench
  17. 17Martin CastrogiovanniBench
  18. 18Cornelius Van ZylBench
  19. 19Paul DerbyshireBench
  20. 20Pablo CanavosioBench
  21. 21Luciano OrqueraBench
  22. 22Gonzalo CanaleBench

Japan

  1. 1Hisateru HirashimaProp
  2. 2Shota HorieHooker
  3. 3Kensuke HatakeyamaProp
  4. 4Justin IvesSecond row
  5. 5Toshizumi KitagawaSecond row
  6. 6Takashi KikutaniFlanker
  7. 7Michael LeitchFlanker
  8. 8Ryu Koliniasi HolaniNumber 8
  9. 9Fumiaki TanakaScrum-half
  10. 10James ArlidgeFly-half
  11. 11Takehisa UsuzukiWing
  12. 12Ryan NicholasCentre
  13. 13Koji TairaCentre
  14. 14Kosuke EndoWing
  15. 15Shaun WebbFull-back
  16. 16Hiroki YuharaBench
  17. 17Nozomu FujitaBench
  18. 18Luke ThompsonBench
  19. 19Tadasuke NishiharaBench
  20. 20Atsushi HiwasaBench
  21. 21Alisi TupuailaiBench
  22. 22Murray WilliamsBench

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Context

All-time, Italy 8–3 Japan in 11 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

Italy going in
Japan going in

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Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.