He has kept just two of the pack - hooker Enrico Ceccato and wing-forward Simone Favaro - that helped see off Ospreys last weekend while most of the changes in the backline are positional although there is a straight swop at full-back with Brendan Williams in for Kris Burton.

Smith does retain the half back partnership of internationals Edoardo Gori and Alberto Di Bernardo and has an exceptionally strong looking bench that includes Corniel Van Zyl, Alessandro Zanni, Burton and Fabio Semenzato,

Benetton Treviso: B Williams; L Nitoglia, A Sgarbi, L Morisi, T Iannone; A Di Bernardo, E Gori; M Rizzo, E Ceccato, L Cittadini; A Pavanello capt, V Bernabo; S Favaro, D Budd, P Derbyshire. Replacements: G Maistri, A De Marchi, I Fernandez-Rouyet, C Van Zyl, R Barbieri, A Zanni, F Semenzato, K Burton.