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ULSTER
RUGBY
ZEBRE
PREVIEW
HEAD
TO
HEAD
ULSTER
13
ZEBRE
6
MATCH STATS:
FRIDAY 20TH DECEMBER 2013
KINGSPAN STADIUM
ULSTER
TRY
Jared Payne
CONVERSION
Ruan Pienaar
PENALTIES
Ruan Pienaar (2)
ZEBRE
PENALTIES
Tommaso Iannone
Luciano Orquera
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
ZEBRE
DATE
VENUE
U Z
SCORERS
SCORERS
Sat 30 Nov 13 Stadio XXV Aprile
19 11
Guglielmo Palazzani(T)
Gonzalo Garcia(2P)
Darren Cave(T)
Paddy Jackson(C/4P)
Sun 18 Nov 12 Stadio XXV Aprile
27 25
Daniel Halangahu(T/C/P)
Tito Tebaldi(T)
Dries van Schalkwyk(2T)
Fri 15 Feb 13 Kingspan Stadium 26 3
Daniel Halangahu(P)
Paddy Wallace(T)
Niall O’Connor(C/5P)
Penalty Try(T)
Rob Herring(T)
Ricky Andrew(T)
Ruan Pienaar(3P)
Robbie Diack(2T)
