On the lawn of Twickenham, the French team signed a successful success against England XV (24-26) after having dilapidated a convincing match start.
The Blues mastered the suspense at Twickenham. The French team A, made up of a mixture of experiences of experience and new ones at the international level, signed a success against England XV at the very last second. In front of a very sparse audience, the players of Steve Barthwick started strong. Joe Carpenter passed nearly opening the scoring after less than two minutes after a nice touch combination but Mickaël Guillard was able to make a return in extremis to prevent the back of dirty from flattening. But it was the Blues who struck the first in this “crunch” after only seven minutes. On a bloom carried roundly led, Quentin Barlot was propelled into English in-goal to flatten the first test of the meeting, not transformed by Nolan Le Garrec.
On their momentum, the Habs have sunk the nail through Hugo Auradou. At the end of a breakthrough by Théo Attissogbé, the second-line Palois did not ask for his rest to register the second trial of the French team A. Nolann Le Garrec then settled the sights to give twelve points ahead of his own after only ten minutes of play. Except that this trend was not confirmed over time. Touched but not sunk, the English put their hands on the ball to react a quarter of an hour from the break through Tom Willis. The younger brother of Toulouse Jack Willis victoriously concluded a long sequence of possession which weakened the French defensive curtain before making it break.
The English were able to reverse the trend
George Ford then brought England XV to five points by passing the transformation. The attempted reaction of the Blues by Maël Moustin was prevented by an offside by Gaël Fickou. The English then continued to press hard to completely revive. At the end of an action carried out at high speed at the start of the touch of the touch, Alex Coles made Twickenham rise by taking the measure of an outdated tricolor defense to force the second test of England XV. George Ford then missed the opportunity to put his team in front of the display board on the transformation. The players of Steve Barthwick finished this first act in fourteen, Immanuel Feyi-Waboso being guilty of a laundry rope on Antoine Hastoy. If the yellow card was immediately released by the referee, the bunker turned him into “light” yellow card.
If the English winger saw his match end prematurely, his team was able to recover a 15th player after 20 minutes. Despite this numerical superiority, the Tricolores trembled after a loss of ball from Tyler Duguid but Killian Tixer was able to return to Joe Heyes to stop this offensive. But it was only awarded because Joe Carpenter had the last word in this first period after a breakthrough by Seb Atkinson. The transformation of George Ford gave the English seven points ahead at the break. The Rose XV scorer opened the second act with a failure at the foot.
The stubbornness of France has rewarded
At the time of play, the players of Fabien Galkié went through all the emotions. While Nolann Le Garrec was able to conclude a 60-meter against English in English and then transform his test, the referee called on video to check the attitude of Cameron Woki. For an irregular load on Jamie George, the Racing 92 player received a yellow card that the bunker then developed in “light” red cardboard. In numerical superiority, the English pushed Fort and Alex Dombrandt allowed his family to take twelve points ahead in the next minute. Back to the wall and one less, the tricolors tried to replicate.
Efforts that have paid the dawn of the last five minutes. On a launch of Guillaume Marchand, the Ballon carried allowed Paul Mallez to flatten a test transformed by Antoine Hastoy to reduce the gap to only five units. Beyond the mermaid, the players of Fabien Galkié had a last ammunition with a touch at five meters. By dint of being pounded by the Habs, the English defense cracked at the foot of the posts. Romain Taofifenua found a mouse hole to flatten the test allowing France has to equalize. Antoine Hastoy had the match ball against the posts and the goalscorer Rochelais did not tremble. At the end of a match rich in emotions, the Tricolores prevail in a short margin (24-26) with players who scored points before the tour in New Zealand.
