Winger Damian Penaud scored twice as Rugby World Cup hosts France eased previous Australia 41-17 in Paris on Sunday in either side’ closing warm-up recreation earlier than the event.
Penaud crossed inside the house of 20 minutes through the second half for Les Bleus, who had been by no means actually threatened by the Wallabies.
France open the World Cup by welcoming three-time winners New Zealand to the Stade de France on September 8, a day earlier than Australia face Georgia on the identical venue.
Matthieu Jalibert began at fly-half for the house facet in a line-up which can also be anticipated to face the All Blacks early subsequent month.
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Lock Will Skelton captained the Wallabies for the primary time as they regarded for his or her maiden victory in 4 video games beneath Eddie Jones.
After two minutes, Australia fly-half Carter Gordon missed a penalty from 45m in overcast circumstances in northern Paris.
Things worsened for the Melbourne Rebels playmaker on simply his fifth Test look as Les Bleus centre Jonathan Danty crashed via him to open the scoring after a flat Antoine Dupont cross.
France fullback Thomas Ramos slotted the conversion to make it 7-0 earlier than the guests then responded.
Gordon helped arrange winger Mark Nawaqanitawase within the nook however 22-year-old fly-half missed the conversion.
By the interval, Ramos had pushed his facet’s benefit to 16-5 with three penalties as Gordon failed with one other try.
Despite the lead, France regarded sluggish in comparison with a majority of their performances since Fabien Galthie took over as head coach in December 2019.
Galthie reacted by altering his entrance 5 after 48 minutes and was rewarded shortly after as alternative lock Cameron Woki stole a harmful Wallabies lineout.
Australia winger Suliasi Vunivalu was then despatched to the sin bin and Ramos made it 19-5 with 27 minutes to play.
France’s tails had been up as captain Dupont underlined his brilliance along with his second help of the sport, a fragile cross kick, to arrange Penaud after Jalibert had examined the Australia defence.
Ramos slotted the extras and with the rating at 26-5 the Stade de France crowd burst into life earlier than Dupont left the sector after an hour, the hosts defending him lower than two weeks out from assembly with the All Blacks.
There was short-lived hope for Jones’ facet via flanker Fraser McReight’s 63rd-minute strive earlier than Gabin Villiere crossed for the hosts, after one other beautiful cross kick, this time by Jalibert, trying snug as the person in France’s No. 10 shirt.
Penaud saved his greatest effort for six minutes earlier than time with a elegant solo strive ranging from the midway line, virtually pretty much as good as his matchwinning landing in opposition to the identical opponents in November.
Jones’ males completed on a constructive word as winger Vunivalu, standing in for the rested Marika Koroibete, dotted down with three minutes left.
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Jones mentioned he remained “confident” of his facet’s probabilities on the World Cup regardless of the heavy loss.
“Within the camp we have a fair bit of confidence,” Jones instructed reporters.
“We’d like to have a better win/loss record.
“We’re trying to play a different way and the results haven’t been good enough but we do have a long term plan for the World Cup and that’s what we’re here for,” he added.
The Wallabies, two-time World Cup winners, begin their event in opposition to Georgia on September 8 however have but to win since Jones took over firstly of the 12 months.
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