A week after biting the Stade de France turf against world champions South Africa (17-32), the French men’s rugby team had no choice but to bounce back against Fiji, Saturday 15 November (21:10), in Bordeaux. For their second match of the autumn tour, Fabien Galthié’s men must swallow their disappointment and win on the pitch of the Stade Atlantique to avoid crisis, three months before the Six Nations Tournament and, crucially, less than two years before the next World Cup, in Australia.
Against the Springboks, the Blues suffered a fourth defeat in a row, following the failure of a summer tour of New Zealand. An unprecedented series since the start of the Galthié era, at the end of 2019. An additional throwback to the 9 erae country in the world will be a blot on the balance sheet of a country that can still boast, after the Six Nations, of its 80% win against the Blues.
This is good. The Pacific Rim presents an ideal profile of atonement sacrifice. Technically good, but inconsistent, they are the perfect opponents to convince themselves. “We are ambitious”, confirmed Thursday, at a press conference, the Blues coach. Before warning about “The individual level of these players should not be underestimated.” “This is a team that must be taken very seriously. »
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