It’s looking bad for the Blues

The challenge promises to be huge for the French national team as it prepares for the 2023 World Cup, the World Cup. Facing the All Blacks in the opening match of the World Cup, the Blues will not be able to rely on the history of confrontations between the two countries to reassure themselves, despite some resounding successes against the New Zealanders.

France and New Zealand will actually be the 63rd^H The match between the two countries. Currently, the record stands at 48 for the Kiwis, compared to 13 for the Blues and a draw, set in 2002, at the Stade de France. Things are hardly better in France, where they achieved only 7 French victories compared to 28 defeats in 35 matches.

The Blues won their last game against the Blacks

As for the World Cup record, it currently stands at five New Zealand victories compared to two French victories, in 1999 and 2007, in seven matches. The French team lost significantly in the final in 1987 and 2011, as well as in the third-place final in 2003. The last match between the two countries in the World Cup, in 2015, was the cause of one of the biggest defeats. On the fifteenth history of France.

Finally, if the Blues win their last confrontation against New Zealand, on November 20, 2021 (40-25), they will have until then remained on a black streak of 14 defeats against the Blacks, and the previous success dates back to June 2009.