Breathtaking.
To finish haggard, stunned, without oxygen.
Sitting on an all blue peak.
It was the long-awaited shock.
This coveted peak.
The Tricolores crossed it this Saturday on their lawn of Saint-Denis by dominating the Irish (30-24).
The road is wide open now.
Towards a first victory in the Tournament since 2010, towards the Grand Slam, why not.
Who can stop them?
Scottish ?
The Welsh?
The English at the Stade de France on March 19?
We doubt it.
Because the Blues have delivered, as against the All Blacks (40-25) two and a half months ago, a high-flying match which gives a glimpse of their potential.
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The film played out this time as a long retort of the dizzying first ten minutes.
In this little time capsule, there was almost everything this XV of France, cut for honors, is capable of.
Left foot to the floor, boosted by their major asset, Antoine Dupont, the best player in the world, at the top of his game, the Blues martyred these great green men who had nevertheless frightened in recent months almost everything that populates the planet. oval.
At the end of themselves
As a sort of evidence, the scrum-half and tricolor captain found himself first in the in-goal, propelled by his legs of fire, in the service of perfect gestures and a quick glance. no longer piercing.
The latecomers had barely sat down in their seats.
Three minutes of play. A start with a bang.
Sequences, reversals, tumbles on a disheveled rhythm.
Impacts to make faces pale in the stands.
Everything was blue.
Big Blue.
The counters followed, panicking in turn: 10-0 after 7 minutes.
A dream or reality?
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In this ocean of heat in the middle of winter, of the clamor of an audience already conquered, it was necessary to have a few shivers.
The test of winger Hansen, first, rising above Melvyn Jaminet on the next dismissal (8th), caused a first concern to germinate in people's minds.
The Blues reacted immediately, still as lively but with calm and method.
The young rear of Perpignan caught up by enquiring penalties from all corners of the field.
Other doubts arose at the start of the second period, during a slump for the Habs coinciding with the Irish reaction.
It only took five minutes for the match to be restarted on two tries from Andy Farrell's players, bringing the score from 22-7 (45th) to 22-21 (50th).
This summit could not turn into a freeway without a toll.
The Blues had to go after themselves.
That is to say very far.
