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France make six changes in decidedly callow XV to face England
By Online Editors
France have made six changes to their team to face England in Sunday's Autumn Nations Cup final following last weekend's group stage win over Italy in Paris. Two of them were expected due to limits on game time in the agreement with the Top 14 clubs.
Pierre-Louis Barassi, Sébastien Bézy abd Guillaume Ducat are named on the bench.
It is a massively understrength side, with the majority of the 23 with less than 10 caps apiece.
FRANCE AUTUMN NATIONS CUP TEAM FOR ITALY:
15. Brice Dulin
14. Aliveriti Raka
13. Yoram Moefana
12. Jonathan Danty
11. Gabin Villiere
10. Matthieu Jalibert
9. Baptiste Couilloud
8. Selevasio Tolofua
7. Anthony Jelonch
6. Cameron Woki
5. Baptiste Peseti
4. Killian Geraci
3. Dorian Aldegheri
2. Pierre Bourgarit
1. Hassane Kolingar
REPLACEMENTS:
Peato Mauvaka
Rodrigue Neti
Uini Atonio
Guillaume Ducat
Sekou Malacou
Sebastian Bezy
Louis Carbonel
Pierre-Louis Barassi
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Go to commentsEngland played well enough to win but couldnt score when they needed to and couldnt defend a couple of X-Factor moments from Telea which was ultimately the difference. They needed to hold the ball more and make the AB's make more tackles. Territorially they were good for the first 60. Defending their lead and playing pragmatic rugby in the last 20 was silly. The AB's always had the potential to come back. England still have a long way to go, definite progress would have been shown had they won but it seems they are still stuck where they were shortly after the six nations and their tour to NZ
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