Heineken Cup winner Fraser Waters turns out for Treviso against Perpignan © Getty Images

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Teams: Benetton Treviso | Perpignan

Former Wasps centre Fraser Waters will make his Heineken Cup bow for Italian side Benetton Treviso against Perpignan on Friday night.

Waters, a former Heineken Cup winner with the London side, will add ballast to the Treviso midfield alongside impressive Italian youngster Andrea Marcato, who starts at outside-half.

Perpignan will enter the match as heavy favourites, and they field an impressive side. Scotland international Chris Cusiter starts at scrum-half while England prop Perry Freshwater packs down in an all international front-row alongside Romanian hooker Marius Tincu and Nicolas Mas of France.

Perpignan, quarter-fianlists last time out, will have home advantage and need to get off to a good start in a competitive pool also featuring Leicester Tigers and the Ospreys. They will be boosted in the later group stages by the arrival of All Black Dan Carter, and will want a solid platform on which to unleash their star performer.

Perpignan: Jérôme Porical, Adrien Plante, David Marty, Jean-Philippe Grandclaude, Farid Sid, David Mele, Chris Cusiter, Perry Freshwater, Marius Tincu, Nicolas Mas, Olivier Olibeau, Rimas Alvarez Kairelis, Gerrie Britz, Jean-Pierre Perez, Damien Chouly

Replacements: Sebastien Chobet, Kisi Pulu, Guillaume Vilaceca, Guilhem Guirado, Nicolas Durand, Philip Burger

Benetton Treviso: Brendan Williams, Emiliano Mulieri, Benjamin De Jager, Fraser Waters, Andrew Vilk, Andrea Marcato, Simon Picone, Augusto Allori, Salvatore Costanzo, Cornelius Van Zyl, Silvio Orlando, Hottie Louw, Dion Kingi

Replacements: Diego Vidal, Enrico Ceccato, Marco Filippucci, Enrico Pavanello, Tobias Botes, Marius Goosen, Alberto Sgarbi