Italy second-row Niccolò Cannone has been suspended for four weeks after the red card he received for a head clash with New Zealand's Cam Roigard in the Nations Championship. The ban rules him out of the trip to face Australia.
The sanction, confirmed at the end of the disciplinary process, deprives Italy of one of its front-row mainstays for a key fixture in the international window. Cannone will thus miss the clash against the Wallabies, with the head coach tasked with reshaping the forward pack for the Australian tour.
The incident, reported by Associated Press in a dedicated article, confirms the measure and its duration definitively. For Italy it is a significant absence in a unit already called to match the physicality of southern-hemisphere opponents.
