A test by Damian Penaud allowed the French team to win against Australia (30-29) on Saturday for its first match in the fall tour. The Blues sign an eleventh consecutive success, unheard of for the tricolor XV.
by
The seasons follow each other and look alike (for the moment) for the XV of France. Authors of ten successes in as many meetings in 2021-2022, the Blues added an eleventh Saturday November 5 – a record for them – by falling Australia (30-29). In a packed stadium in France, the French have long run after the scoring and got back to a feat by Damian Penaud in the last minutes to get out of it.
“We are always happy to meet, it’s been three years since this group gets to know each other and won in confidence” confided to the world the third line Grégory Alldritt during the week. And it seems indeed that nothing can happen to the XV of France of the coach Fabien Garthié, who still proved him against Australia by going to seek a victory which seemed almost unexpected in the last minutes, and which took time to time take shape!
For their return, Antoine Dupont and his teammates, in fact, had trouble getting into the rhythm. Something rare enough to be underlined, the Toulouse scrum half was guilty of a few technical faults and bad choices while its forwards regularly retreated to the impact, and were largely dominated by their Australian counterparts on the first fray.
It is thus almost logically that after two penalties marked on each side, it was the Wallabies that pulled the first by an essay by Lalakai Foketi, following an overflow by the winger Tom Wright (19
The individual feat of Damian Penaud
The many French supporters present in Saint-Denis surely expected to see their team unrolling, but the start of the second half did not meet their expectations, nor to those of Fabien Garthié, asking To his players “to free himself” at the microphone of France Télévisions at halftime. On the contrary, it was the Australians who have taken over into hand with a test by Jock Campbell (56
🇫🇷⚡️🇦🇺 | Damian Penaud gives the advantage to the Blues (30-29) !! #Fraaus #xvdefrance
▶ ️ follow the direct:… https://t.co/cpepenng1z
Less than a year of “their” World Cup in France, the Blues then seemed to go to a defeat. But having found the way of winning a title last season (their first six -nations tournament in twelve years), the Blues have also forgotten how to lose. And by receiving a ball on his wing three minutes from the end of the match, Damian Penaud obviously did not want to remember: a hook on a first defender then a Raffut on the second, the Clermontois was Almost alone, or almost, to go and snatch the victory for the XV of France by a corner test.
“It provides chills, these are really good times. Internationally, there is not an easy game. We knew it was going to be hard until the end. No one has dropped and The state of mind allowed us to win the match, “confided to France Télévisions at the end of the game the third line Charles Ollivon, designated man of the match.
The French thus catch a new major nation to their hunting board, which had not succeeded in recently (3 victories on the previous 10 games). Only South Africa still lacks in the list of this XV of France Fabien Galkié version. That’s good, Cheslin Kolbe and his teammates have an appointment with the Blues on Saturday November 12 at the Stade-Vélodrome, in Marseille.