13 min. On an interesting stimulus ball, Medard cheek solo completely forgetting Mermoz, yet unmarked to his right.
12 min. The Irish pack takes over melee. Camara has no other choice but to untie before being punished.
11 min. Trimble and Kearney collide in the air in the fallout of a kick Médard. Both players are recovering, the game continues but McCarthy drops the ball became slippery for a few minutes and the onset of rain.
09 min. The first scrimmage is quite turbulent but Chouly managed to eject to Bézy. Number 9 is a small button just behind the 22-meter line.
07 min. First fright before the French in-goal. O’Brien is beautiful in the closed side, the game that bounces Sexton misses his cross pass to Henshaw. Les Bleus can blow and recover a 5-meter scrum.
05 min. Sexton enjoys an advantage to test Teddy Thomas on a candle from the entrance of 22 meters. The French winger throne, Henshaw gets leather. The referee finally returns to the penalty, new pénaltouche for Ireland.
03 min. Best misses its launch, Lauret upward from O’Brien and manages to deflect the leather to Bézy. Blue alignment could not start better!
02 min. First floor fault at the traffic in the opposite camp. Atonio dragged in the plating area, preventing the quick release of the ball. Sexton is a great touch in the French 22 meters.
01 min. The South African referee Jaco Peyper gives the first whistle of the afternoon, Jules Plisson runs. Let’s go !
00 min. The two teams are entering the Stade de France. The atmosphere is the appointment, the rain has not yet invited the faces of the Captains hookers Guirado and Best are very tense. This match feels the powder! But before the fight up to the hymns.
00 min. If the hinge-Sebastien Bezy Jules Plisson was renewed, a doubt still hangs over the identity of the tricolor striker after the poor performance of scrumhalf face the poles against the Italy. But after the last training of the Blues, it is the number 10 of the French stage, which should be in charge of penalties.
00 min. For as long as anyone can remember, the last Irish defeat against France August 20, 2011, during a preparation match in the World New Zealand. You said “black beast”?
00 min. As expected, the pillars Mike Ross and Cian Healy, sufficiently recovered from injury, are absent from a team already deprived of several key players like Peter O’Mahony, Chris Henry or Iain Henderson. The flyhalf Jonathan Sexton, bruised released last Sunday in Dublin during the draw against Wales (16-16), will be present, together with Conor Murray at the hinge.
00 min. Coach Joe Schmidt Ireland can count on the return of three frames in his starting XV, with brothers Rob and Dave Kearney among the three-quarters and the dreaded Sean O’Brien in third line. They replace Simon Zebo respectively, Tommy O’Donnell and Keith Earls, and are the only alterations in the training beginning in less than an hour at the Stade de France.
00 min. Noves has also made some adjustments in the pack by sending on the bench the two pillars holders against Italy, Eddy Ben Arous and Rabah Slimani, to emphasize the power of Jefferson Poirot (first start) and uini atonio. Alexandre Flanquart start in second row at the expense of Paul Jedrasiak yet for last Saturday but the strongest sign is the tenure of Teddy Thomas, who was injured against Ireland in the tournament there a year and is not reappeared since Blue. The gifted winger shone in his debut in November 2014 (a hat-trick against Fiji) and was sparkling against Australia with a splendid solo try.
00 min. Two changes were forced by hazards, due to the absence for personal reasons from the center Gaël Fickou and injury of Louis Picamoles N.8. The first is replaced by the Toulon Maxime Mermoz and the second by Yacouba Camara, installed to the position of flanker Damien Chouly finding his preferred position in the center of the third row.
00 min. Upgraded by the Irish at the last World (9-24), and taken in the rucks by the Italians last week, the Blues captain’s Guilhem Guirado today the the obligation to state their level of play and their great desires off against an opponent they have not beaten in the tournament since 2011. Aware of the challenge that awaits them, Guy Noves and his staff have made six changes XV tricolor departure.
00 min. Hello and thank you to join us to follow, commented live and in full, the meeting between the XV of France and Ireland on behalf of the 2nd day of tournament VI Nations. The kickoff will take place at 15:25 at the Stade de France.
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