RECAP: Lions v Benetton

READERS’ FORUM: Welcome to our live coverage of the United Rugby Championship Round 17 encounter between the Lions and Benetton at Ellis Park.

Both teams will be playing for pride only, as they are already out of the play-off race.

* To read our pre-match predictions, CLICK HERE!

* Our live blog will appear below, it might take a little while to load, please be patient. We apologise for the inconvenience!

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Teams:

Lions: 15 Quan Horn, 14 Stean Pienaar, 13 Wandisile Simelane, 12 Burger Odendaal (captain), 11 Edwill van der Merwe, 10 Jordan Hendrikse, 9 Morne van den Berg, 8 Emmanuel Tshituka, 7 Vincent Tshituka, 6 Francke Horn, 5 Reinhard Nothnagel, 4 Ruben Schoeman, 3 Carlu Sadie, 2 Pieter Botha, 1 Jean-Pierre Smith.

Replacements: 16 Jaco Visagie, 17 Sithembiso Sithole, 18 Ruan Dreyer, 19 Ruan Venter, 20 Sibusiso Sangweni, 21 Andre Warner, 22 Manuel Rass, 23 Tiaan Swanepoel.

Benetton:  15 Rhyno Smith, 14 Edoardo Padovani, 13 Tommaso Menoncello, 12 Filippo Drago, 11 Monty Ioane, 10 Tomas Albornoz, 9 Dewaldt Duvenage (captain), 8 Lorenzo Cannone, 7 Manuel Zuliani, 6 Giovanni Pettinelli, 5 Carl Wegner, 4 Irnè Herbst, 3 Simone Ferrari, 2 Giacomo Nicotera, 1 Thomas Gallo.

Replacements: 16 Hame Faiva, 17 Ivan Nemer, 18 Tiziano Pasquali, 19 Federico Ruzza, 20 Matteo Meggiato, 21 Alessandro Garbisi, 22 Leonardo Marin, 23 Andries Coetzee

Referee: Andy Brace (Ireland)

Assistant referees: AJ Jacobs (South Africa) & Griffin Colby (South Africa)

TMO: Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa)