For its second match in the Six Nations Tournament, France won on Saturday in Scotland (5-15), after starting the competition well with a victory against Ireland last week.
Published on: 03/30/2024 – 5:21 p.m. Modified on: 03/30/2024 – 5:48 p.m.
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The French women continue their momentum, but have scared themselves. The French women’s Six Nations.
The week of rest which now awaits the French, whose next meeting will take them on April 14 to Paris against Italy, will not be too much to analyze this very worrying meeting for the rest of the competition.
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It is imperative that the Blues, very poor in Scotland, raise their level of play at Jean-Bouin, because they were too penalized, too imprecise and incapable of stringing together effective sequences of play.
How can we imagine that last year in Vannes, the French had crushed the Scottish women 55 to 0?
But since then, the Chardon XV has definitely progressed: in the fall, they won level two of the WXV, the new competition created by World Rugby to raise the level of women’s rugby.
And last weekend, Scotland won a historic victory in Cardiff (20-18), its seventh in a row but above all its first on Welsh soil for twenty years, which allowed it to climb to 6th place in the world rankings for the first time in its history.
French clumsiness
During the first period, under a beautiful spring sun but with a strong wind, the Scots showed off their solid defense, which greatly hampered the French XV, who also made damaging hand errors.
Dressed in white, the Tricolors, clumsy, even feverish, may have occupied the Scottish camp, but they did not succeed in putting their game in place, nor in concretizing their territorial domination.
And it is therefore almost logical that the first try was signed by Scottish hooker Elis Martin, on a carried ball, a few minutes before half-time (5-3, 35th).
Returning from the locker room, the French continued their inaccuracies, manhandled from all sides, particularly on the sidelines, by confident opponents.
It was only in the 52nd minute that the young Blue winger Kelly Arbey, for her second selection, finally went to flatten behind the Scottish goal, to give some breathing room to her teammates (5-8 ) but without really reassuring. And it was not a second try, scored on the siren by the French third row Emeline Gros, which dispelled the doubts.
With AFP
