A great first half. A poor second one.

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With 10 seconds left, Italy will scrum down on halfway after Urwin’s kick off went straight out.

Patrick de Villiers runs down the left and eases over with the final play.

47-14.

As the try was being awarded, Luke Coulston was shown a yellow card for collapsing a maul.

Scalabrin catches a cross-field kick and scores in the right corner.

40-14.

Scotland come offside. Italy opt to scrum from the penalty.

It’ll take place just over 5m from our line.

Casilio’s box kick goes straight out.

Our lineout on our 10m line.

After a good attack, Scotland lose the ball and Italy come forward.

We get it back, but there’s a knock on and Italy will have a scrum on our 22.

Parry’s throw isn’t straight. Italy scrum on our 10.

Thomson breaks through in midfield, but after an offside is ignored Italy win the jackal penalty.

Murdoch Lock, Matthew Urwin, Gavin Parry, Callum Smyth, Ryan Whitefield, and Jonny Morris have all come on for Scotland.

Off go Patterson, Coates, Blyth-Lafferty, Deans, Norrie and Currie.

Gasperini wrestles over in the right corner.

21-14.

Italy break down the left from kick off, and soon Belloni scores.

33-14.

Casilio lumps it from just inside his half to 10 metres from our line, and Italy will go from there via the lineout on the right side.

Gasperini scores from close range again.

28-14.

The TMO advises our referee to overturn the try. The referee decides to stick with his on-field decision.

Scotland can feel hard done by there; does that feel familiar?

Another not rolling penalty, and Italy kick it into the right corner.

Scotland offside just inside Italy’s half, and it’s tapped quickly.

Gritti finds space ruckside and charges through unchallenged.

14-14.

Hold on…

Was Gritti allowed to play that ball?

He would have to be the last man in the ruck when he picked it up, but it looks like someone may have been behind him.

Italy charge through the middle after the scrum, right into our 22, but an intercept from Gwynn halts the attack and Patterson exits.

Italy lineout around 25m out from our line.

Ventisei penalised for not rolling.

Italy kick into our 22.

This time we win the scrum penalty!

But we can’t take advantage as the kick doesn’t find touch…

Isaac Coates will soon get us back underway.

COME ON SCOTLAND!

Italy on the attack there, but the play comes too close to an injured player and physio and the referee eventually stops it.

We’ll continue with an Italy midfield scrum inside our 22.

Fergus Watson won’t come out for the second half, as the tryscorer picked up a knock.

He’ll be replaced by Johnny Ventisei, with Georgie Gwynn moving out to the wing and Ventisei slotting into the centre.

Both teams going for a max of a two phases for a couple of minutes there, before Scotland eventually win one of their own box kicks.

But it’s Italy who get the scrum, as Douglas is held up and a maul is created before the ball gets trapped.

The scrum is on halfway, on our right wing.

A few uneventful phases from Scotland, and Coates decides enough is enough.

We lead by seven at the break!

The jackal specialist at it again!

Freddy Douglas gets the jackal penalty, and we’ll keep playing though the clock is in the red.

Our lineout, just inside Italy’s 10.

We work to the left side from the scrum, but are soon penalised for holding on in the ruck.

It’s kicked out just inside our 10, on our left flank.

Hector Patterson’s charge down put the first Scotland try on a plate for Euan McVie.

McVie, Hart, Thomson, Doyle, Patterson and more certainly enjoyed it!

Italy go through the phases, but there’s a knock-on out on their right.

We’ll get the scrum put-in just inside our 10.

The ball was in play for an age there!

Kicks from both sides, and eventually Scotland get the scrum as Belloni drops Patterson’s box kick.

Italy butcher the lineout and Coates exits, with Geordie Gwynn bearing down on the loose ball.

Italy try to run it from their own 22, but Gwynn rips the ball free. It goes out into touch and Italy have the lineout on their 22.

Gywnn boots downfield, and Italy return it.

Coates gathers, but he’s smothered up and holds onto the ball at the breakdown.

Italy kick it into our left corner.

We take the lead!

Some excellent hands down the left side as Thomson finds Fergus Watson on the left wing, and he races into the corner!

Another excellent Coates conversion. 7-14.

Italy’s forward make the inches and get so close, but a sealing off penalty two metres out saves our skins!

Coates exits to around 25m from our line.

A kick from each side and Patterson fancies a run.

We get penalty advantage from an illegal tackle, and the ball goes out to the right. But Thomson’s kick through goes straight out, and we go back for the penalty.

Coates puts it out around Italy’s 10m line.

Italy look like firing straight back, but a knock on from Pucciariello’s grubber halts their progress. Our scrum.

Italy win their lineout ball, and then Ruaraidh Hart is offside as he attempts to block a box kick.

The Azzurini kick their penalty down to halfway.

Italy steam forward in the scrum and win the penalty.

It’s kicked to the right corner.

Italy’s lineout goes awry, and Coates kicks through. But it’s caught inside Italy’s 22, and the mark is called.

They exit to just outside their 10.

Italy make a mess after the lineout and Scotland dive on a loose ball. Coates then knocks a kick over the top of the Italian defence into the right corner.

It’s gathered by the home side, but Jimenez’s box kick is charged down by Patterson, and Euan McVie dives on it and slides over in the corner!

An excellent conversion from Coates. 7-7.

A second kick out on the full from Patterson, and Italy have the lineout just inside their 10.

Scotland win their own kick off back, then lose it on the left.

But then Douglas burrows into a ruck and gets it back!

Isaac Coates fires a kick down, and the return goes out just outside Italy’s 10 on our right.

Italy wrestle forward phase by phase, and then Scotland concede the first penalty of the night.

Italy kick it into the left corner.

That was a lovely move!

Jerry Blyth-Lafferty is freed on the right, and has a gallop. Then the ball is worked to the left where Jack Hocking stabs through a grubber, which goes out in Italy’s 22.

Tom Currie carries from the base of the scrum, then Hector Patterson fires up a box kick. But it’s gone straight out, and Italy will have the lineout on our 10.

We defend the maul well after the lineout, but Italy’s forwards inch towards the line and Piero Gritti gets under the posts.

7-0.

Italy messily win their lineout ball, but then good pressure from Findlay Thomson on Six Nations debut forces a knock on.

We’ll have the scrum around 30m from our line, slightly right of the posts.

Let’s hope the game is played at a tempo quicker than the version of Flower of Scotland we just heard!

Italy kick us off.

A couple of phases from kick off and Patterson exits.

Italy lineout on the right side of our 10m line.

COME ON SCOTLAND!!!

A quick trip back inside, and now the teams come back out onto the pitch.

Flower of Scotland is next.

Here is a reminder of your Scotland U20 team to take on Italy in Treviso tonight.

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Scotland U20 are out on the pitch warming up, with 15 minutes to go until kick off here at Stadio Comunale di Monigo.