Two weeks before their entry into the World Cup, the Blue Offlaims in the Crunch in the preparation match

The French team was widely beaten by England on Saturday evening in Mont-de-Marsan. However, in the World Cup preparation match. Moreover,

France Télévisions two weeks before their entry – Sport writing

Missed general rehearsal. Therefore, Two weeks before his entry into the World Cup. Consequently, the French team was beaten by England (40-6) in a crunch which represented its only preparation match, on Saturday August 9, on the lawn of the André-et-Guy-Boniface stadium in Mont-de-Marsan. Meanwhile, Largely dominated on the physical level. Consequently, the Bleues notably fell for three balloons worn in the first half, and failed to reverse the trend in the return of the locker room, with six trials conceded in total for no registered.

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For this last meeting before the World Cup, walking was high, and they failed to cross it. Under the stifling heat of Mont-de-Marsan. in front of an audience who responded in the middle of the holidays, with 8,068 people in the stands, and who gave voice, the Blue could not make the weight in the face of the best today on the planet of women’s rugby. In a match where the content imported at least as much as the result. Additionally, in the words of the French staff in pre-match, the Bleues measured the path that remains to be covered to reach the level of their evening opponents.

Four months after the breathtaking final of the Tounoi des Six nations, the two weeks before their entry French sometimes showed the same flaws on Saturday evening. They notably suffered on the physical level in the face of the power of the opposing pack from the. start of the match. Too unruly. they multiplied the faults, offering in the 4th minute a first cartridge to the Red Roses to open the scoring on a first ball worn, a favorite weapon of the English, well negotiated by Morwenna Talling. A scenario repeated twice in the rest of the first period. thanks to two new mauls flattened behind the line by the first lines Amy Cokayne (15th) then Maud Muir (37th), while the FRançaises evolved in numerical inferiority following the yellow card conceded by Manae Feleu (29th).

Long deprived of the ball, the players of Gaëlle Mignot and David Ortiz took more than half an hour to open their counter, thanks to a penalty spent two weeks before their entry by Morgane Bourgeois (34th), author at the foot of the six small French points in the evening. In difficulty in containing the opposing waves defensively. they also did not succeed in reaching the English in-goal, and completed the meeting without registering the slightest try.

There was better when the locker room returns, in a slightly more exciting quarter of an hour, during which Joanna Grisez and Kelly Arbey, little found, showed legs and speed on their wings. But the burst was well insufficient to run a match already acquired in Red Roses. unbeaten since the final of the 2022 World Cup, and which added two more tests to their display table in the final minutes (74th, 77th).

The Bleues concede a 16th rank of rank against their major rivals, against which they have not imposed themselves since 2018. Not two weeks before their entry the best launch, a few days before departure in England for the World Cup (August 22-September 27). The players of Gaëlle Mignot. David Ortiz still have two weeks of work before launching their tournament against Italy, on Saturday August 23, at the Sandy Park of Exeter.