Clément Pédron, Media365, published on Sunday November 10, 2024 at 9:10 a.m.
The France team won the first of its three matches on this fall tour on Saturday evening against Japan (52-12). Unfortunately, the Blues also lost Théo Attissogbe and Thibaud Flament to injury.
It was a match not to be missed, not to be missed. Saturday evening, the French team found its audience in Saint-Denis after several months where the image of the discipline took a hit. For their first match of the fall tour and one week before a shock against New Zealand, the Blues had fun against Japan (52-12). Facing the Japanese selection, the Tricolores made the talk with doubles from Louis Bielle-Biarrey and Paul Boudehent and found the enthusiasm of Antoine Dupont, back after his enchanted parenthesis in rugby Sevens.
Unfortunately, the evening was not entirely joyful since the Blues staff deplored two injuries during the meeting: Théo Attissogbe and Thibaud Flament. Initially, the first was not to play or in any case, was not to start but he replaced Damian Penaud (ill) at short notice. Seven minutes from the end of the match, the Pau winger had to leave the field after a Japanese player fell on his ankle. He came out with the help of the trainers and left his teammates fourteen against fifteen because Fabien Galthié had exhausted all his changes. Coming out of the victory, the Blues coach knew a little more about his injury. “Theo suffered a sprain of the lateral ligament in his left ankle,” Galthié detailed in comments reported by the Team. It's an injury that he has already suffered twice, the player was not very worried but he may already be out for next week (and the match against New Zealand). »
Flament out too
Before this outing due to injury, the French team had lost one of its men, shortly before the half-hour mark in the person of Thibaud Flament. The Toulouse man appeared to be hit in the left hip. For the moment, we do not really know the nature of his injury apart from the fact that it is located at the “iliac crest” to use the coach's words. “We didn’t want to take any risks,” he assured. At the time of his replacement, the Toulouse resident had indicated to the staff that he could no longer run. Additional information should circulate in the coming hours or days about the two men.
