Italy five-eighth Diego Dominguez has been ruled out of Saturday's Test match in Genoa against Australia after damaging ligaments in his right knee in the 36-6 defeat at home to Argentina.

Dominguez, 36, kicked two early penalties in Saturday's match at the Stadio Flaminio, but failed to show for the second-half after feeling discomfort when running.

The Italians failed to score a single point without the Stade Francais man on the pitch and were comfortably beaten by the visitors who ran in five tries.

Dominguez's six point haul against the Pumas took his total to 965 in Test matches, second in the all-time list behind Welshman Neil Jenkins.

Australia will be looking to return to winning ways in Genoa after back-to-back defeats against Ireland and England.

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