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Wales-France: a life-size test for young Blues

2020-02-22T06:17:51.915Z


In a boosted atmosphere in Cardiff, the French team is playing this Saturday (5:45 pm) its first real challenge outside in the Tournament of


Team of France, do you have a heart? In any case, it will have to be hooked on the strokes of 5:45 pm when the captain of the XV of France Charles Ollivon and his fourteen partners will enter the lawn of the closed stadium of the Principality Stadium of Cardiff, ex-Millenium. Two years ago, the Blues had the right to a special welcome committee. They had entered alone into a carefully maintained half-light, only lightened at times by flares. So what should we expect for our young Blues who weigh barely 234 caps all together when their opponent of the day shoots down 800 capes including 136 for the only Alun Wyn Jones, the indefatigable captain?

"Honestly, we talked a bit about the atmosphere that will await us. But we did not make tons either ", recognized this Saturday his tricolor alter ego displaying a British phlegm in front of journalists worried to see them explode under the cheers of an audience that is said to be hot as the embers and whose cries are close to the decibels of an airplane taking off.

No more victory on Welsh land since ... 2010

“We are all aware of what we will face tomorrow (Saturday), agrees Ollivon. We exchanged a little but we will keep the energy we need. The first impression, when you entered for training, is that it is dark. Even with light. We imagine that there will be a little more atmosphere tomorrow. But it doesn't disturb us more than that. I look forward to it, rather. "

The carelessness and talent of the youth embodied by the small corporal Antoine Dupont, this is undoubtedly one of the first trademarks of this new team from France which has just swept England (24-17) and dispose without brio of Italy (35-22). After two days, it was still the leader of the Six Nations Tournament that she planted her cleats on Welsh soil. If we summon the recent past, there is plenty to die for these bizuts of which only three of the fifteen holders aligned this Saturday have already played on the lawn of Cardiff stadium.

In the last nine meetings between the two selections, eight have gone to the purse of XV Le Poireau. The last tri-color success in Welsh land dates back to 2010, as much to say an eternity in the oval planet. These statistics, Charles Ollivon sweeps them by explaining that the French players wanted to "create their own story". A success against the winner of the Grand Slam 2019 would constitute the first of the chapters of an epic which would then be announced glorious.

Source: leparis

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