After the victory of the XV of France in his first match World Cup against Italy (32-10), coach and players are satisfied but a little “frustrated” by a ground game. “The only negative note is the severe injury of Yoann Huget” , one of its executives out in tears Saturday at Twickenham, summed coach Philippe Saint-André, from the end of game, while television pictures showed the player in the locker room, wearing a splint on his right knee
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In a press conference, the coach said: “If we want to finish top of the group, now we must win the next three matches, starting with the one against Romania. “
In case of definitive cessation winger 28 years Stade Toulousain, coaching can appeal to an extra player. 
Thierry Dusautoir (captain of the XV of France): “The commitment of both teams in the combat phases has led many mistakes. It was a ground game. We would have liked to put more pace. It showed also excitement at times because we were trying to finish the actions too quickly. We are happy with the victory but is aware that more work. It was not easy to enter the competition. Especially for an inexperienced team like us. My main question this week was how the team would react. Before thinking of Ireland [11 October], there is between Romania and Canada. These are games that will fully succeed. “
Eddy Ben Arous (Pillar of the XV of France) ” It was very important to start with a victory, we could not hope better. But we did not know about our scoring highlights, unfortunately. “
Sébastien Tillous-Borde (scrum half of the XV of France) ” We are a little frustrated. There were many mistakes on both sides, it was a ground game. But it is returned to the World Cup, one is launched. The key is powerful enough, the fray as well, but there have been many mistakes so we did not really able to launch our game. (…) At times there was good cohesion. (…) The injury Huget? It was not until the exams but it is a bad sign. It’s someone important in the group, it’s always annoying to lose a teammate if he was to return. “
Frederic Michalak (flyhalf XV of France, the microphone of TF1) ” We feasted offensively, we managed to string together good sequences of the same game if it has sometimes shown a little sin of pride on certain movements. Some balloons did not come out fast enough, for example. But we won, we’re happy. Although one might have imposed more widely. It was a bad time with the injury to Yoann Huget. The party is not totally satisfactory. Personally, I had a little trouble to get into it, I made two posts. But I’m going back to work tomorrow. I’m happy to be there, I saw it as my last World Cup. “
On the Italian side, coach Jacques Brunel regret incomprehensible arbitration and many suffered penalties: ” The no Parisse, it is obvious that it was important. But this is not the determining factor for the difference in score. I acknowledge that France deserves to win but the difference on the scoreboard does not correspond to the part we did. There is a glaring imbalance. The arbitration that we have not included elsewhere, including the fray, has unbalanced the game. There were a total of 12 mixed and was penalized six times, five times so our introduction. It’s a lot. We also had bad luck with Andrea Masi which unfortunately broke the Achilles tendon. This is the third center (after Morisi and Garcia, Ed) we lose in two weeks. We will monitor the situation, we do not have many resources but we’ll have to call someone. All that night, leaves a bad taste in the mouth. We had the same number, maybe more opportunities than France. “
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