De Marigny: We can scuttle Scots

ITALY have never made it through to the last eight of the Rugby World Cup, but now is the hour, believes Roland De Marigny ahead of today’s crucial Pool C match with Scotland in St Etienne.

A win will take the Azzurri through to a meeting with the winners of Pool D, likely to be either Argentina or France with Ireland now considered an outside bet.

Despite Italy’s difficulties in finding form at this World Cup, a breakthrough today, Marigny feels, would mean so much to the Italian people.