Wales U20 v Italy U20 Live: Kick-off time, TV channel and score updates

Wales U20 are looking to avoid the dreaded Wooden Spoon as they face Italy in their final match of this year's Six Nations.

Richard Whiffin's team got off to a winning start in the tournament as they beat Scotland in a thrilling 11-try contest on the opening weekend. But after breaking their two-year championship victory drought against the Scots, they have lost three games on the bounce, falling to heavy defeats against England, Ireland and France.

Those results have left them fifth in the table, five points adrift of the Italians in fourth and four ahead of bottom-placed Scotland. With Wales also having the worst points different in the tournament ahead of kick-off, a Welsh defeat tonight, coupled with an unlikely Scottish win away to Ireland, would see Whiffin's side finish bottom for the second year running.

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Unfortunately for Wales, they will be without captain Harri Ackerman at Cardiff Arms Park tonight after the skipper suffered a double leg break in the opening minutes of last weekend's defeat to France. Returning flanker Harry Beddall will leading the side tonight in his absence.

Beddall is one of seven changes to the starting XV made by Whiffin, who has shaken up his team for the final game of the tournament. Most of those alterations come in the backs, with Cardiff duo Matty Young and Elijah Evans handed debuts at full-back and outside centre respectively and Huw Anderson moving to the wing and Macs Page to inside centre to accommodate the pair.

Harry Rees-Weldon and Macs Page are out of the