France (9) 22 / England (14) 24 (Final Score)
France and England did battle in the Six Nation at Stade de France, Paris at 17:00 SA Time (15:00 GMT).
This was a live match discussion Article. The frogs played for all of 15 minutes, and still nearly took the match. Imagine what would have happened if they’d played for 80 minutes!!! Harinordoquy got man of the match
The match was broadcast LIVE on SuperSport 1 & SHD on TV in SA.
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Scorers:
France:
- Penalties – Lionel Beauxis (3), Julien Dupuy (1), Morgan Parra (1)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Wesley Fofana (1)
- Conversions – Morgan Parra (1)
England:
- Penalties – Owen Farrell (1)
- Drop Goals – 0
- Tries – Manusamoa Tuilagi (1), Ben Foden (1), Tom Croft (1)
- Conversions – Owen Farrell (3)
Match Stats courtesy of espnscrum.com
| France | England | |
| 1 | Tries | 3 |
| 1 from 1 | Conversion goals | 3 from 3 |
| 5 from 7 | Penalty goals | 1 from 2 |
| 75.0% | Kick at goal success | 80.0% |
| 0 (2 missed) | Dropped goals | 0 |
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| Kick/pass/run | ||
| 32 | Kicks from hand | 29 |
| 145 | Passes | 92 |
| 114 | Runs | 62 |
| 358 | Metres run with ball | 361 |
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| Attacking | ||
| 59% | Possession | 41% |
| 58% | Territory | 42% |
| 4 | Clean breaks | 5 |
| 13 | Defenders beaten | 6 |
| 18 | Offloads | 2 |
| 89 from 92 (96.7%) | Rucks won | 50 from 56 (89.3%) |
| 3 from 4 (75.0%) | Mauls won | 1 from 1 (100.0%) |
| 16 | Turnovers conceded | 14 |
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| Defensive | ||
| 70/6 | Tackles made/missed | 97/13 |
| 92.1% | Tackling success rate | 88.2% |
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| Set pieces | ||
| 8 won, 0 lost (100.0%) | Scrums on own feed | 7 won, 1 lost (87.5%) |
| 9 won, 2 lost (81.8%) | Lineouts on own throw | 8 won, 2 lost (80.0%) |
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| Discipline | ||
| 5 | Penalties conceded | 11 |
| 0/0 | Yellow/red cards | 1/0 |
Teams:
France: 15 Clément Poitrenaud, 14 Vincent Clerc, 13 Aurélien Rougerie, 12 Wesley Fofana, 11 Julien Malzieu, 10 Lionel Beauxis, 9 Julien Dupuy, 8 Julien Bonnaire, 7 Imanol Harinordoquy, 6 Thierry Dusautoir (captain), 5 Yoann Maestri, 4 Pascal Papé, 3 Nicolas Mas, 2 Dimitri Szarzewski, 1 Jean-Baptiste Poux.
Replacements: 16 William Servat, 17 Vincent Debaty, 18 Lionel Nallet, 19 Louis Picamoles, 20 Morgan Parra, 21 François Trinh-Duc, 22 Maxime Mermoz.
England: 15 Ben Foden, 14 Chris Ashton, 13 Manusamoa Tuilagi, 12 Brad Barritt, 11 Charlie Sharples, 10 Owen Farrell, 9 Lee Dickson, 8 Ben Morgan, 7 Chris Robshaw (captain), 6 Tom Croft, 5 Geoff Parling, 4 Mouritz Botha, 3 Dan Cole, 2 Dylan Hartley, 1 Alex Corbisiero.
Replacements: 16 Rob Webber, 17 Matt Stevens, 18 Tom Palmer, 19 Phil Dowson, 20 Ben Youngs, 21 Charlie Hodgson, 22 Mike Brown.
Date: Sunday 11 March
Venue: Stade de France, Paris
Kick-off: 17:00 SA Time (15:00 GMT)
Expected weather: 70 percent chance of rain with a high of 18°C and a low of 12°C
Referee: Alain Rolland (Ireland)
Assistant referees: Nigel Owens (Wales), John Lacey (Ireland)
TMO: Jim Yuille (Scotland)
Oh no! Good try England, fast player that man Croft.
Bad tackling by France. Can’t see them winning now. They always fark me up on bru. Bloody unreliable amphibians!
Farrells conversion good. 15-24
This going the wrong way had France to win by 9 I think on my Bru.
oempfff….close!
Brilliant defence by Dowson. but got hurt
@ Bullscot:I had France by 6, like YT says, never trust a cold blooded amphibian!
TRYYYY? France, TMO
France not taking this lying down
Given, and Parra with the conversion, good, 22-24
France with their tails up now
Franse het stal geruik….
Drop attempt short
It’s over, but down boy, Brian, you tosser, its not over yet!, but England will kick this out
And Wales win the 6 Nations!
….and England take it, just 22-24
Congrats England! Good performance. Crappy Frogs.
Actually if Wales lose to France and England beat Ireland next week, it will go to points difference.
Now its the Mallett vs Lancaster show
@ The_Young_Turk:On that performance, Wales can’t lose!
England are guaranteed to earn $175,000 (£111,666) from the International Cricket Council for being the number one Test side on 1 April – thanks to the weather in New Zealand.
Second-placed South Africa would have taken top spot if they had beaten the Kiwis 3-0 in their three-Test series.
But with New Zealand 137-2 chasing 401 to win the first Test, rain prevented any play on the final day in Dunedin.
Ciao a tutti! Till next time.
@ The_Young_Turk:Cheers all
Well done England, disapointing France, I guess that just about hands the title to Wales… unless England can beat Ireland by a big margin (and of course France win in Cardiff).
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