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)
Frogs look more fired up for this one than for the Ireland match.
TRYYYYY England. Tuilagi – 0-5 England
TRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ENGLAND!
Good try for the poms.
Farrell gets conversion, England 7 to the good
France get a penalty straight away, going for posts, over, 3-7 France
Another try to the Poms!
Foden over for a TRYYYY
Fark, the pommies are putting the frogs to the sword. Must be the saffer influence…
Not to shabby Eng!!
14-3
These commentators make Warren Brosnihan sound professional.
Moore shut up you prat
Kickable penalty England, Farrell steps up
…and he misses
Boring.
France throwing the ball around now, but mistakes coming from both sides
Penalty France after some great tenPom bowling
Dupuy gets it over 6-14 France
England not rolling away, penalty France
Sjoe, it is hot here today.
French trying to go wide, but being well shadowed by England
51@ Loosehead:It is a tad warm, the swimming pool has been working overtime.
Another penalty to France, England slowing ball down, not rolling away
Beauxis going for the posts, and over
9-14 as it goes over, and thats half time
Who wudda thunk it? 2 tries to England vs 3 penalties to France!
Poor quality rugby for a test.
Nick Mallet says that France is playing shit.
Mallet says it how it is, no beating about the bush there!
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