• French atone for debacle at Twickenham
France have remembered at last. Beautiful rugby is all very well but without the route to victory they have found it empty of late. This time they played beautifully and with the bloody-mindedness to make sure that there would be no forgetting how to win.
Scotland arrived with a team stripped by injury. It showed. The scoreline flatters them. They found plenty of scope for expression themselves but each gap taken felt like an isolated flash, rather than the sustained coherence of France’s play. The TMO denied France a try four times but the home side were not only determined to win; they wanted a bonus point and played until the eighth minute of overtime to secure that fourth try. They could have had it much earlier.
Written by Michael Aylwin at Stade de France
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/23/france-scotland-six-nations-match-report under the title “France turn screw with late fourth try as Scotland’s losing Paris run continues”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
