This Saturday starts the tour of New Zealand of the French team. So, will the French manage to create the feat? In parralel, will Australians take their revenge against Fijiens? And will Argentina prevail against English deprived of their executives? Here are our predictions for this new international weekend!
Let’s go for the first weekend of the summer test games. If we omit the few games already played, such as those of the British Lions, Maori All Blacks or Barbarians, there is only Argentina, Italy and South Africa which have already started their series of tests. This Saturday is the weekend of the Grand Départ. No, we are not talking about the Tour de France, but indeed traditional summer tours of the northern hemisphere teams in the southern hemisphere.
New Zealand vs France: the XV of France returning to the All Blacks
Obviously, how not to talk about the match that will wake up the rugby lovers on Saturday morning. Fabien Galkié’s XV of France moves to New Zealand land for the first time since 2018. And although the composition of the blue group does not make the local media dreamyou should never take a slight match between these two teams. Especially since this French team remains on three consecutive victories against the All Blacks, a first for 30 years. So, yes, the XV of France has not won in New Zealand since 2009 and the tests of François Trinh-Duc, William Servat and Maxime Médard, yes the XV of France moves without its masters to play and yes the XV aligned by the Blacks is scary, but we never know …
Our prono: Victory of New Zealand. Despite a valiant French team filled with envious players to show their potential, this New Zealand team has everything to make the difference.
South Africa vs Italy: Squadra Azzurra moves to world champions
You are not promised the biggest suspense on this match. Of course, Italy has changed its face in recent years and has more and more qualities to annoy large nations. But from there to beat the world champions Springboks, at home … very unlikely. And it is not as if the South Africans had lost in quality since 2023, quite the contrary. The men of Rassie Erasmus have remained on 11 victories in 13 games since their title. The Italians, will they manage to reiterate their 2016 featonly victory to date for the Nazionale against the South Africans? We let you do your opinion, ours is already decided.
Our prono: Victory of South Africa. Springboks will easily have an Italian team far too exceeded.
Georgie vs Ireland: an unbalanced poster, but not uninteresting
Ireland moves to Tbilisi, in Georgia. Irish, deprived of their best players currently with British Lionsmove to A freshly victorious Georgian team last March of Rugby Europe Men’s Championship 2025beating the Spanish in the final. It will only be the sixth confrontation between these two nations, the first during a summer tour … So many people dream, it still seems difficult to imagine that these Georgians will be able to create surprise despite the efforts.
Our prono: Ireland’s victory. Even with a reworked team, Ireland will probably once again be faced with these Georgians. But the match may well be tight.
Argentina vs England: the 100e by George Ford
The XV of the rose has been traveling for the first time in Argentina since 2017. The English arrive with a team, also, deprived of no less than 12 players currently on tour with the Lions, but additional motivation: The co-captain of the day George Ford will reach his 100th CAP with Englandbecoming the 8th player in English history to reach this bar. On the Pumas side, the men of Felipe Contepomi, Lions winners on June 20are in confidence and record the return of a flagship player: Facundo Isa. In addition, like George Ford, Pablo Matera will also reach a symbolic bar: that of the 110 caps with the Pumas (equaling the record of AgustÃn Creevy).
Our prono: Victory of Argentina. This match will be symbolic in full respect. But if we speak rugby, the physique and the discipline of the pumas could make the difference against a reworked English team. It would then be a small feat since the Argentines won only one match in 15 years against the English.
Australia vs Fiji: revenge
The last match of this test game weekend will take place on the night of Saturday to Sunday at 5:30 am. The last time that Australiens and Fidjians met was during the 2023 World Cup in Saint-Etienne. And The Flying Fijians had created the feat by winning their first match against Australia … Since the 1950s. This test-match in Australian lands will therefore have a slight taste of revenge since this defeat had greatly participated in the non-qualification of the Wallabies for the quarter-finals. For the first match of their tour, the Australians will line up an experienced team who will not have the right to make mistakes against Fijians without pressure. Eight changes are still made by Mick byrne Compared to the team who had received a lesson last November against the Irish (52-17).
Our prono: Victory of Australia. On their lands, the Wallabies must win this match to revive a dynamic and should put the necessary ingredients.
