At the Pierre-Mauroy stadium in Villeneuve d’Ascq, for the 2nd day of the World Cup, the French XV faces the modest Uruguay team, with the desire to keep first place in Group A.
After their successful entry into contention against New Zealand (27-13), six days ago, the French team continues its path in its World Cup. For this second day, Fabien Galthié’s gang (1st, 4 points) finds Uruguay, modest 17th nation in the IRB ranking. The “Terow” are participating in their first meeting of this World Cup. Nothing to worry about for the Blues, who will take the opportunity to carry out a large squad review.
In the absence of Antoine Dupont, preserved for the rest of the competition, Fabien Galthié entrusted the captain’s armband to Anthony Jelonch. The Stade Toulousain third row is returning to competition after suffering a cruciate ligament rupture last February. Fabien Galthié was moved. “Anthony was captain at a difficult time in our history, during a tour of Australia where we were locked in the hotel, where we only came out at night to train, and during which we were not released only three times in 10 days to play test matches. It was the revealer of men and souls. We also remember this evening against Scotland, which his injury had made difficult despite the victory. […] Since then, he has been accompanied by many people.”
Under the fire of controversy for having been sentenced by the Toulouse criminal court to six months suspended prison sentence for “acts of violence with the circumstance that the latter were committed because of the race or ethnicity of the victim”, a decision which he appealed, Bastien Chalureau finds a place on the substitutes’ bench.
Injured in a thigh, Jonathan Danty was not included, to everyone’s surprise, on the match sheet. The coach of the French Zeeland, but we chose to position Yoram in 12. We try to have an overall vision of the playing time, the associations between players. Jonathan Danty has already played three consecutive matches during our preparation. In our desire to homogenize the “team, and in view of the path we must take later, the choice of Yoram appeared more coherent.”
As part of the 2nd day of the Rugby World Cup, Pierre-Mauroy hosts France – Uruguay, a very unbalanced meeting on paper. This game will kick off at 9:00 p.m. by M.O’Keeffe (New Zealand).
As was the case for New Zealand – France, TF1 will be in charge of broadcasting this France – Uruguay.
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