Italy and Scotland are aiming to finish their difficult Six Nations campaigns with a flourish in Saturday's wooden spoon decider in Rome.

Winless Italy need to triumph by five points or more to move ahead of the Scots, who broke their duck by beating England 15-9, and hand them the wooden spoon.

But Italy coach Nick Mallett is not willing to settle for an ugly win, even though he has only picked up defeats since succeeding Pierre Berbizier in November.

"I want to win and I want us to play well. I want progress in our style of play," the former Springboks boss said. "Our backs have the capacity to do good things against Scotland."

"It's important for the team to win but I don't want to win with just nine or 10 players," he added'

"This team needs to continue to learn and this game is important in that regard."

Despite the win over England, Scotland also feel the need to turn on the style after scoring just one try in the championship so far.

"We want to make it more exciting. If you want to compete with other professional sports you've got a duty to entertain" said Paterson (pictured), who has provided most of his side's points by continuing his perfect goal-kicking record from the World Cup.

The Italians are aware of the danger Paterson's boot poses.

He scored all of his side's points when Scotland edged them 18-16 to snatch Pool C qualification at the World Cup in September, the last meeting between the nations.

They will be looking for a disciplined display to keep the number of penalties down. They will also be hoping for some better finishing.

Centre Gonzalo Canale has been particularly wasteful, dropping important passes in the 25-13 defeat in France last weekend and the 47-8 reverse against Wales last month.

"We are not a side like Australia that create 10 or 11 chances a game so we have to take the opportunities we make," said Italy captain Sergio Parisse.

Canale will have the chance to make amends after keeping his place in an unchanged starting line-up.

Scotland coach Frank Hadden has made two injury-enforced changes. Simon Danielli returns to the wing in place of Rory Lamont, who suffered a triple cheekbone fracture against England at Murrayfield, and Fergus Thomson comes in for Ross Ford (ankle) at hooker.

Italy have often been a thorn in Scotland's side, beating them at home in 2000 and 2004 and winning 37-17 in Edinburgh last season.

Italy: 15-Andrea Marcato, 14-Kaine Robertson, 13-Gonzalo Canale, 12-Mirco Bergamasco, 11-Ezio Galon, 10-Andrea Masi, 9-Simon Picone, 8-Sergio Parisse (capt), 7-Alessandro Zanni, 6-Josh Sole, 5-Marco Bortolami, 4-Carlo Antonio Del Fava, 3-Martin Castrogiovanni, 2-Leonardo Ghiraldini, 1-Andrea Lo Cicero.

Replacements: 16-Fabio Ongaro, 17-Salvatore Perugini, 18-Carlos Nieto, 19-Jacobus Erasmus, 20-Pietro Travagli, 21-Enrico Patrizio, 22-Alberto Sgarbi.

Scotland: 15-Hugo Southwell, 14-Simon Danielli, 13-Simon Webster, 12-Graeme Morrison, 11-Nikki Walker, 10-Chris Paterson, 9-Mike Blair (capt), 8-Simon Taylor, 7-Allister Hogg, 6-Alasdair Strokosch, 5-Scott MacLeod, 4-Nathan Hines, 3-Euan Murray, 2-Fergus Thomson, 1-Allan Jacobsen.

Replacements: 16-Scott Lawson, 17-Alasdair Dickinson, 18-Craig Smith, 19-Jason White, 20-Kelly Brown, 21-Rory Lawson, 22-Dan Parks.

Reuters