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.
*******************
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 |
 |
||
| Kick/pass/run | ||
| 32 | Kicks from hand | 29 |
| 145 | Passes | 92 |
| 114 | Runs | 62 |
| 358 | Metres run with ball | 361 |
|
||
| 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 |
|
||
| Defensive | ||
| 70/6 | Tackles made/missed | 97/13 |
| 92.1% | Tackling success rate | 88.2% |
|
||
| 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%) |
|
||
| 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)
2nd half on
French fluff it
Hello all, only really tuned in at the time England were 14 3 ahead so looks like a good come back from France.
French looking a bit better after half time
63@ Bullscot:Too much ill-discipline from England lead to penalties
Penalty given for deliberate knock on – took an age, must have been the touch judge. Farrell for posts
Farrell slots it 9-17
Booooooooooooring!
…and a penalty to France, Eng pulling down at lineout. Beauxis for posts, misses
Yellow coming up
Sharples off with a yellow
Pommie commentators crying into their beer
That is about as a pathetic a yellow as when Smit was sent off.
France butcher a certain try, should have passed
Nice to see a ref being consistent and actually follow up his warning issued late in the 1st half to England that next one would be off, pity the rookie ref didn’t do the same in Dublin yesterday, twice he gave Ireland warning that next one will be off and didn’t follow through with that.
73@ Loosehead:
From the 1st reply it looked like an accidental knock on almost like the ball hit his hand rather than him knocking it but the 2nd angle replay for me showed he was trying to go for it and at least disrupt the pass so knocked forward, there is no ways the ball will stick in your hands if it is near your finger tips when you hit it, given the warning they had late in 1st half for me its a yellow, well done Mr Ref.
France with all the ball, but stuff it up every time
France not really taking advantage of extra man
England look quite good with 14 men.
Geez, this English commentator is a real prat. He’s even pissing off his own colleague.
Damnit, Hairydonkey is a good player.
Wow, the French showing signs of flare, but they just can’t deep the flame alight
English defense up to it. French attack looks toothless.
@ The_Young_Turk:
A bit like the Stormpoppies
penalty France, going for posts
Parra slots it 12-17 France
Penalty France on halfway, and France going for posts
Great kick! Good decisions to go for the last two kicks.
Beauxis slots it. 15-17 France
TRYYYYY Engalnd by Tom Croft
Users Online
Total 41 users including 0 member, 41 guests, 0 bot online
Most users ever online were 3735, on 31 August 2022 @ 6:23 pm
No Counter as from 31 October 2009: 41,863,724 Page Impressions
_