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)
OK Kickers and you merry bunch… here’s the Article… do your thing.
I’m off to the Goemmas in 10 minutes.
Gooooooooooooi Mieliessssssssssss!
Enjoy
France – Team News (espnscrum): France coach Philippe Saint-Andre has opted to freshen up his half backs with the inclusion of Lionel Beauxis and Julien Dupuy at the expense of Francois Trinh-Duc and Morgan Parra. Beauxis returns to the starting line-up at fly-half for the first time since 2009, while Dupuy replaces Parra in the No.9 jersey after a similarly long spell on the sidelines. In the pack, Julien Bonnaire continues at openside, with Imanol Harinordoquy at No.8, and Louis Picamoles among the replacements. Centre Aurelien Rougerie and hooker Dimitri Szarzewski are also retained despite speculation hinting they would be replaced by Maxime Mermoz and William Servat.
Player to Watch: Three tries in his first three Test appearances marks centre Wesley Fofana out as a special talent – can he keep that scoring run going against England?
England – Team News (espnscrum): England have named an unchanged side with Owen Farrell retaining the No.10 shirt despite the return to fitness of Charlie Hodgson who must settle for a place on the bench. Hodgson, who started at fly-half with Farrell at inside centre in England’s wins against Scotland and Italy, returns from a finger injury to replace Toby Flood on the bench. Stade Francais lock Tom Palmer also returns to the 22-man squad with a seat on the bench after Courtney Lawes was ruled out of the tournament with a shin injury.
Player to Watch: Winger Chris Ashton has been relatively quiet in this year’s Six Nations – could he bounce back to top form on the ground where he made his Test debut in 2010?
Ciao a tutti!
Players coming out, howzit all
Like I said last night, this should be a good match. england have nothing to lose, but the players want to play for Lancaster, and the French….well it just depends which team turns up!!!
Anthems
Go the Froggies! Don’t stuff it up now!
Let the game begin
France and Italy have two of the most martial anthems…
11@ The_Young_Turk:Makes you want to haul out the old R1!!!
1st scrum France
Penalty England, France off their feet
Few good phases for England ends in a knock on from a South African
What do the Poms see in Morris Boater? To me he is very average.
Darn it, lost my link %&$%&
Yo….whadup dawgs??? Exited over this game….young english team. Think they have loads of potencial. Cummon England!!
16@ Loosehead:That makes him better than useless – which is what the poms have without him
@ bos_otter:Howzit – yeah, hopefully a good game coming up
It’s so ridiculous that they continue playing while the first aid team is still on the field:
The commentators are crap.
Penalty France – scrum infringement
@ Just For Kicks:
Not bad mate….season’s turning, so starting to get some warmer days in the UK atm. Braai time and girls in short skirts soon….can’t wait 🙂
Dupuis with the kick, but left
22 @ Loosehead:Brian Moore the most useless in the world
24@ bos_otter:and very white legs, hahaha. Where are you in UK?
@ Just For Kicks:
lolz….true 🙂 London
France on the attack here
Jeez…that was close!!
England – get out of Jail card used up. France nearly over twice
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