6N 2016: France v Italy, 6 February

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FRANCE v ITALY
6 February 2016
KO: 15:25 CET
Stade de France, Paris

Live on FR2, DMAX, BBC, RTE, FR2, ITV(H)

Referee: JP Doyle (England)
Touch judges: [tbc]
Television match official: [tbc]

A. Head to Head

37 Played 37
34 Won 3
0 Drawn 0
3 Lost 34
1,101 Points 392

B. Recent Form

19 September 2015
Twickenham Stadium, London
32 – 10 to France

15 March 2015
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
0 – 29 to France

9 February 2014
Stade de France, Saint Denis
30 – 10 to France

3 February 2013
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
23 – 18 to Italy

4 February 2012
Stade de France, Saint Denis
30 – 12 to France

C. Teams

FRANCE

15 Maxime Medard
14 Hugo Bonneval
13 Gael Fickou
12 Jonathan Danty
11 Virimi Vakatawa
10 Jules Plisson
9 Sebastien Bezy

1 Eddy Ben Arous
2 Guilhem Guirado
3 Rabah Slimani
4 Paul Jedrasiak
5 Yoann Maestri
6 Damien Chouly
7 Wenceslas Lauret
8 Louis Picamoles

16 Camille Chat
17 Uini Atonio
18 Jefferson Poirot
19 Alexandre Flanquart
20 Yacouba Camara
21 Maxime Machenaud
22 Jean Marc Doussain
23 Maxime Mermoz

ITALY
 
15 David Odiete
14 Leonardo Sarto
13 Michele Campagnaro
12 Gonzalo Garcia
11 Mattia Bellini
10 Carlo Canna
9 Edoardo Gori

1 Andrea Lovotti
2 Ornel Gega
3 Lorenzo Cittadini
4 George Biagi
5 Marco Fuser
6 Francesco Minto
7 Alessandro Zanni
8 Sergio Parisse

16 Davide Giazzon
17 Matteo Zanusso
18 Martin Castrogiovanni
19 Valerio Bernabo
20 Dries van Schalkwyk
21 Guglielmo Palazzani
22 Kelly Haimona
23 Luke McLean

Ref should give Italy the penalty at this scrum after his last mistake

nathan wrote:

maestegmafia wrote:

nathan wrote:

maestegmafia wrote:I think the French will cruise to a big victory after a halftime talking to.

Not judging by the last 5 minutes they won't.

35 to go. I'm not regretting my post yet.

Well that was a bit of a damp squib of a second half from a French point of view.

Great game management by Italy kept them in the game and the French making mistakes. Two minutes left and a very nervous finish

An uncertain performance by the ref hasn't helped this game at all

Italy have to try something here

What the f*ck was Parisse thinking?

Why Sergio?

Shame for the Italians.

Got to feel thats a very harsh result that turned on a poor decision at the end.

Once again the big teams get the decisions at the right time. Unlucky Italy.

Absolutely ludicrous decision from Parisse to go for the drop goal.

Too much ego eh?

Silly boy, they should of carried on through the phases. More chance of France giving away a penalty

Parisse for the drop goal?

VinceWLB wrote:Absolutely ludicrous decision from Parisse to go for the drop goal.

Too much ego eh?

Agree. Not that surprised unfortunately.

That was way too complicate in the end and Italy deserved something else.

lot of players didn't perform today including most of the pack (except Jedrasiak), Fickou, Medart and Bonneval (although he was playing out of position). bezy and vakatawa are the only positives.

Well done France and hard luck italy

Well, a good win by France. Or rather "A LUCKY" win by France.

Italy should realy have won that game, but  at the last minute Parrisew trying to take a drop goal.

Well played Italy. Although they lost, no longer can be the called the whipping boys...lets hope their is more to come from them.

Parisse

VinceWLB wrote:Absolutely ludicrous decision from Parisse to go for the drop goal.

Too much ego eh?

In fairness, no other Italian was putting their hand up to go for the drop goal and I have seen Parisse kick DG's before so not as mad as you would think.

Well Doyle's mistakes change the result in yet another match - the man's a liability with the whistle ... not just the penalty at the end but France's first try came off a forward pass and possible foot in touch - bad luck Italy - robbed.

Foot in touch maybe, forward pass no. Blame the line referee for that.

I think this game highlights 2 things...

The ineptness of France is still there,

and talk of Italy being guarentee'd the wooden spoon is massively premature!

Anyone else notice the amount of empty seats? Is this down to recent results?

LeinsterFan4life wrote:Anyone else notice the amount of empty seats? Is this down to recent results?

Yeah noticed that, French are only into club rugby now it seems. I bet Italy would have had a better crowd for this in Roma.

People have to realise this is the 1st game in the Stade de France since the November terrorist attacks. A lot of people hesitated to come to Paris (most supporters do not live here as well). Both games against Ireland and England have been sold out for a long time as well which means some other supporters went for tickets for those instead.

whocares wrote:People have to realise this is the 1st game in the Stade de France since the November terrorist attacks. A lot of people hesitated to come to Paris (most supporters do not live here as well). Both games against Ireland and England have been sold out for a long time as well which means some other supporters went for tickets for those instead.

Fair point, i would think twice about getting to Paris to watch a game after what happened.

Who won Man of the Match?

Vakatawa

whocares wrote:Vakatawa

Cheers.

I am 100% neutral on this game but the highlights seemed to me to suggest France were very, very lucky. The final two passes for the first try and the scoring pass for the last try all were close to forward, while - as has been said above - the final French penalty (great kick though it was) should have been an Italian pen for the high tackle on Parisse before he was pinged.

RE: crowd - as this was the first major game of any kind at SdF since 13 November and - with all due respect to Italy - perhpas not the biggest of 6N games, was the upper tier maybe closed to help crowd control?