Japan and Russia have both confirmed their matchday squads for Saturday’s fixture between the two sides at Kingsholm – kick off 2:05pm.

The Brave Blossoms have retained ten of the side that gave England such a scare at Twickenham last weekend, as they return to a stadium that has become something of a second home to them in recent seasons.



In addition to having played two pool matches at Kingsholm in Rugby World Cup 2015, against Scotland and the USA, Japan also played a warm up game here against Georgia in September 2015 and actually played against Gloucester Rugby in a friendly in November 2013.

The game kicks off at 2:05pm on Saturday and tickets are still available by clicking HERE

Japan:

15. William Tupou; 14. Amanaki Taiyo Lotoahe, 13. Timothy Lafaele, 12. Ryotu Nakamura, 11. Kenki Fukuoka; 10. Rikiya Matsuda, 9. Kaito Shigeno; 1. Keita Inagaki, 2. Atsushu Sakate, 3. Jiwon Koo; 4. Kazuki Himeno, 5. Wimpie Van der Walt; 6. Michael Leitch (capt), 7. Masakatsu Nishikawa, 8. Hendrik Tui

Replacements:

16. Kosuke Horikoshi, 17. Masataka Mikami, 18. Hiroshi Yamashita, 19. Yuya Odo, 20. Isileli Nakajima, 21. Yutaka Nagare, 22. Yu Tamura, 23. Yusuke Kajimura

Russia:

15. Vasily Artemyev; 14. Mikhail Babaev, 13. Vladimir Ostroushko, 12. Dmitry Gerasimov, 11. Daniil Potikhanov; 10. Yury Kushnarev, 9. Vasily Dorofeev; 1. Valery Morozov, 2. Stanislav Selskii, 3. Vladimir Podrezov, 4. Andrey Ostrikov, 5. Andrey Garbuzov; 6. Vitaly Zhivatov, Tagir Gadzhiev, 8. Nikita Vavilin

Replacements:

16. Evgeny Matveev, 17. Sergey Sekisov, 18. Anton Drozdov, 19. Alexander Illin, 20. Anton Sychev, 21. Dmitry Perov, 22. Ramil GAysin, 23. Sergey Ttishin