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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Michael Aylwin

Favoured Italy face return of Faletau as Wales look to stop their slide

Taulupe Faletau in Wales training
With his experience, Wales will look to Taulupe Faletau to help steer them past Italy in Rome. Photograph: Chris Fairweather/Huw Evans/Shutterstock

Italy are the biggest favourites of the weekend to win their Six Nations match. And it is highly unlikely that sentence has been written before.

Admittedly, there is barely ­anything in it. At the time of ­writing, Italy are widely available at evens with a handicap of seven; for France and Ireland, the handicap is six. All three are a little shy of 2-1 on to win their respective matches. That is quite the company Italy are keeping.

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