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• 8: Cameron Walkie in the Watchtower

If the players in the second line change according to injuries and concussions (Paul Willemse then Thibaud Flament), Cameron Wookie remains very present in the starting fifteen. Racingman, so good against South Africa, is of great value especially at contact where the distinguished jumper of the French bowlers is. The former Bordelo-Béglais took an eight-ball by combining the two games against the Wallabies and Springboks.

• 20/21 Charles Olivone finds the shape

Elected Man of the Match against Australia, then Imperial in the first half against South Africa, Charles Olivone was in charge. Tolouni III is the French player of the tour with 20 successful defensive tackles out of 21 attempted. Olivon’s little peculiarity: against the Springboks, he managed 8/8 on tackles, but all in the first half!

• 96%: The Japanese and quick liberation

Against England, the Japanese attempted to set the pace as indicated by the escape velocity data. They fired 96% of balls in less than 6 seconds, 69% in less than 3 seconds … For comparison, against the Springboks, the Blues dismissed 54% of balls in less than 3 seconds and only 70% in less than 6 seconds!

• 4: Dylan Riley, mixed record

In England last Saturday, Dylan Riley was in on all the good Japanese moves but also the lesser ones… The three quarter position already beat four English defenders (scoring the match with Rose’s 15th back, Freddie Steward) and won the 100m ball in hand. But the Australian-born Saitama Wild Knockouts player also lost three balls and committed three hand fouls.

Latest information:

DuPont’s comment 4 weeks:
Antoine Dupont was suspended four weeks after receiving his red card against South Africa for a dangerous gesture to Cheslin Colby. He will therefore be absent for the next two days of the Top 14 (Lyon and Perpignan) as well as the trip to Munster in the European Cup with Stade Toulouse. He was sent off in the same match, and Peter Steve du Toit was sentenced to three weeks in prison.

Galthia was nominated as Coach of the Year…
Fabian Galletti comes off a full year with fifteenth for France, twelve caps, twelve victories, a Grand Slam title and as a reward scalps to all the major rugby nations in the world. So it is only natural that the Blues coach would find himself on this list, to be awarded the Best Coach of the Year award. But the task will not be so easy in light of the competition. The first contender is Andy Farrell, the coach of Ireland, who is also the author of an exceptional season, thirteen matches, two defeats including one against France, but the Irish managed to knock down the All Blacks three times in one year, including two victories. on New Zealand soil. But despite this great series, XV of Clover has yet to win a title. The other two contenders are the coaches of the two women’s finalists, Simon Middleton who leads the English selection, who lost in the final against the New Zealanders and Wayne Smith, the last world champion with the Black Ferns.

…and DuPont to MVP
If Fabien Galetti has logically earned the praise for him, France’s second half and Stade Toulouse, Antoine Dupont, is part of his squad of favorites for the FIFA World Player of the Year title. Grand Slam winner with France’s 15th and captain of the Blues, Dupont is accompanied here by Lujanio Am, Josh Van der Vliere and Jonathan Sexton. Monde Midi Olympique, and was named FIFA World Player of the Year last year. On the way to double?

Galthia: “We are responsible for the numbers”
On Wednesday afternoon, at the CNR of Marcoussis, the press was introduced to SAS France, the world leader in analytics and statistical data, which has been cooperating with XV of France for several years now. As a reminder, a rugby match contains tens of thousands of statistical data and in order to sort it out, then to make it understandable to the Blues staff, the interventions of SAS France, which today lists the data of about 1438 matches (including 36 of the XV from France), are now crucial for the XV For France to maintain a competitive advantage over its opponents. We then began to think of everything without forbidding anything, Fabian Galetti explained. With this data, we have opened up the field of possibilities in discount analysis by simply answering these two questions : “What did the teams that beat them do? What did the teams that failed do?” All this is very important to us.In Marcusi, the tricolor trainer went like this: “We are able to judge the individual quality of a player. On the other hand, collective data matters to us in this game as the face of the field changes every 3 seconds. Were we defensively prepared to respond to those 3 seconds, whether attacking or defending? Were the men and the system in place Right? But if you can get some form of agility, the ability to adapt to opponents, you can never predict the game scenario, as you watched it on Saturday, against the Springboks. Numbers don’t lead us. We run numbers. Decisions are made by our intuition and knowledge During a match, for example, you are not connected to any computer.