France XV coach Fabien Galthié revealed his team composition for the match against Japan on Saturday, with a few surprises and an average age of 25 and a half.
Here we go again for a new season of the French XV, the main objective of which will be to win the next 6 Nations Tournament. In the meantime, the Blues begin their Autumn Tour on Saturday (which will then see them face New Zealand and Argentina) with a match against Japan, a team which remains on two big defeats against Fiji (41-17) and New Zealand (19-64). Four months after the Tour to Argentina which caused a lot of ink to flow, Fabien Galthié decided to bring new blood into his starting XV.
The captain Antoine Dupont makes his big comeback after a golden adventure at 7, and will be associated with his Toulouse friend Thomas Ramosholder in the absence of Romain Ntamack, injured (Matthieu Jalibert will be a replacement). At the back, the coach continues the momentum of the last 6 Nations Tournament by trusting the Parisian
Leo Barrewhile the wings will be occupied by the Bordeaux Damian Penaud et Louis Bielle-Biarreyas in the match against England in mid-March. In the center, the Palois Emilien Gailleton
sends Gaël Fickou to the bench while the Bordeaux player Yoram Moefana will indeed be able to play after serving his suspension.
First for Tatafu
On the front line, the Bayonnais Avoid Tatafu
will honor his first selection, at 22 years old (and will therefore face his cousin and namesake, who wears the colors of Japan) and the Toulonnais Jean-Baptiste Gros the 30th, around the Toulouse hooker Peato Mauvaka. Two other Toulouse residents, Thibaud Flament and Emmanuel Meafou
will occupy the second line. In the third line, we will find other Toulouse residents, François Cros and Alexandre Roumatas well as Rochelais Grégory Damn it. This starting XV will have an average age of 25 and a half years and 25 caps. Will the young people seize their chance, before the highly anticipated match against the All Blacks?
The XV of France against Japan: Barré – Penaud, Gailleton, Moefana, Bielle-Biarrey – Ramos, Dupont (cap) – Roumat, Alldritt, Cros – Meafou, Flament – Tatafu, Mauvaka, Gros
The replacements: Marchand, Wardi, Colombe, Guillard, Boudehent, Lucu, Jalibert, Fickou
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