Damian Penaud scored a hat-trick of tries as France thrashed Namibia 96-0 in a World Cup Pool A match in Marseille on Thursday, however star scrum-half Antoine Dupont went off injured after a excessive deal with.
Dupont, who had scored a attempt to produced two decisive cross-kicks, left the pitch within the forty sixth minute nursing his proper cheekbone after Johan Deysel bought his contact fully off-kilter in a nasty head-on-head conflict and was despatched off.
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After the host nation had seen off New Zealand 27-13 within the match’s opening match, a second-string aspect had struggled to a 27-12 victory over Uruguay. Neither win most well-liked up a bonus level.
Coach Fabien Galthie left no room for doubt for his or her third pool match in choosing a full-strength workforce that outclassed the Namibians in each side of the sport which produced a French report 14-try mauling.
But the overwhelming victory might need come at a excessive worth, as Galthie faces an anxious wait after his talismanic skipper was whisked off to hospital.
France now have 13 factors from their three Pool A video games, three factors forward of second-placed Italy who play New Zealand in Lyon on September 29 and the French on October 6, each in Lyon because the race for the 2 automated spots within the quarter-finals involves a climax.
The victory got here on the Stade Velodrome, dwelling to crisis-ridden soccer membership Olympique Marseille and the unlikely venue for an enormous mass to be celebrated by Pope Francis on Saturday.
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But any hope of non secular steerage for Namibia on the turf the place an estimated 60,000 believers will collect for the papal viewers quickly went up in smoke as France raced to 4 tries throughout the opening 21 minutes.
Dupont, but to lose a match on dwelling soil when captaining France in 14 matches, confirmed his consciousness with a cross-kick that Penaud gathered for France’s opening strive within the sixth minute.
Jonathan Danty marked his return from harm with the second strive after Louis Bielle-Biarrey produced a tremendous inside cross, quickly adopted by Charles Ollivon ending off a flowing counter-attack.
Penaud grabbed his second to ensure France the specified attacking bonus level, rapidly adopted by Danty, who barrelled over from brief vary.
Thibaud Flament crossed for the house aspect’s sixth strive after an Anthony Jelonch break from a ruck and Dupont was subsequent over the road with Namibia left answerless to the velocity and effectivity of the French.
Dupont produced his second decisive cross-kick of the match for Bielle-Biarrey, Ramos’ seventh conversion leaving it 54-0 at half-time.
But the Toulouse scrum-half’s second interval was brief lived as Deysel made head-on-head contact with him in a deal with and Dupont was pressured off for a head harm evaluation and the Namibia captain red-carded.
It additionally noticed Divan Rossouw’s intercept strive scrubbed from the books to rub salt into Namibia’s wounds.
Dupont’s alternative Baptiste Couilloud didn’t linger as soon as he bought on, performed in for a strive by Peato Mauvaka as Namibia had been left with the stark realisation that they had been a person down for the ultimate 35 minutes.
Penaud grabbed his third attempt to match Vincent Clerc (in 2007) and Ugo Mola (1999) in scoring a hat-trick in France’s two different matches towards Namibia, additionally at World Cups, and fellow wing Bielle-Biarrey went long-range for his second.
Melvyn Jaminet, and a late penalty strive, accompanied by 12 Ramos conversions helped wrap up proceedings because the hosts prolonged Namibia’s World Cup dropping streak to 25 video games.
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