European Rugby Challenge Cup Pool 4: London Welsh v Lyon preview
Last Updated: 24/01/15 7:36am
London Welsh will attempt to claim their first win of the season when they welcome Lyon to Kassam Stadium on Sunday
Last week the Exiles were unable to score any tries as they went down 26-3 to Bordeaux Begles in their fifth consecutive defeat in the European Rugby Challenge Cup.
The coaching staff have kept faith in that team as they make only one injury-enforced change to the match-day 23, with unlucky replacement hooker Matthew Dobson suffering yet another setback.
Dobson is replaced by Koree Britton, who takes the No 16 jersey for the final round of Challenge Cup pool matches.
There is some movement in the Lyon backline as Thibaut Regard switches wings, while Paul Bonnefond moves from right wing to outside centre where he partners captain Fabrice Estebanez.
Full-back Romain Loursac and fly-half Lackie Munro retain their places with Mathieu Loree replacing Ricky Januarie at scrum-half.
Hooker Damien Fitzpatrick makes a retrn at hooker but has two new props joining him in Sami Mavinga and Anthony Roux. The second row remains the same, while the only change to the loose trio sees Karim Ghezal making way for Eugene Nzi.
London Welsh: 15 Chris Elder, 14 Seb Stegmann, 13 James Lewis, 12 Olly Barkley, 11 Rhys Crane, 10 Tristan Roberts, 9 Rob Lewis; 1 Eddie Aholelei, 2 Nathan Morris, 3 Ben Cooper, 4 Dean Schofield, 5 Matt Corker (c), 6 Lachlan McCaffrey, 7 Richard Thorpe, 8 Ben Pienaar.
Replacements: 16 Koree Britton, 17 Ricky Reeves, 18 Jack Gilding, 19 Josh McNally, 20 Daniel Browne, 21 Paul Rowley, 22 Alan Awcock, 23 Elliot Kear.
Lyon: 15 Romain Loursac, 14 Thibaut Regard, 13 Paul Bonnefond, 12 Fabrice Estebanez (c), 11 Didier Tison, 10 Lachie Munro, 9 Mathieu Loree; 1 Sami Mavinga, 2 Damien Fitzpatrick, 3 Anthony Roux, 4 Mickael De Marco, 5 Simon Christian Njewel, 6 Steevy Cerqueira, 7 Eugene Nzi, 8 Masi Matadigo.
Replacements: 16 Vincent Colliat, 17 Bogdan Balan, 18 Horace Pungea, 19 Joe Tuineau, 20 Frans Viljoen, 21 Adrien Bau, 22 Jerome Porical, 23 Alexandre Derrie.
