Kumamoto (Japan) (AFP)

A very wide rotation: France coach Jacques Brunel should make twelve changes for the second World Cup match on Wednesday in Fukuoka (South of Japan) against the United States, according to information collected Friday by AFP .

The prospect of three games in ten days, with then appointments against Tonga (October 6) and against England (12), has apparently pushed the coaching to spare his forces against the Americans.

Compared to the starting team of Argentina, last Saturday in Tokyo (23-21), only winger Yoann Huget, center Gaël Fickou and Arthur Iturria, repositioned from second to third line, should keep their place .

The right pillar Demba Bamba, replacing against the Pumas, was also to begin. But the 2018 U20 world champion was forced to end the training session early Friday afternoon in Kumamoto, an information RMC Sport confirmed to AFP by the coaching of the Blues.

He should be replaced by the Toulon Emerick Setiano (23 years old, 3 sel.), Who would thus know his first tenure.

A blow for Bamba (21 years old, 7 goals), which was to start for the first time since mid-March, at the close of the Six Nations Tournament against Italy (25-14), and missed the three matches of preparation due to cervical surgery.

But also for Jacques Brunel, who would have only two valid rights pillars, Setiano and Rabah Slimani, and would therefore be forced to align again the latter, holder against Argentina. While he was likely to blow it for the "Crunch" against the English, only six days after the tough fight that the XV of France should deliver against Tonga.

Before his injury, the neo-Lyonnais, like his teammates, was in any case informed of the composition of the team that will face the Americans and will be officially announced Monday.

Behind, Fickou and Huget would now be surrounded by Thomas Ramos (back), Alivereti Raka (wing) and Sofiane Guitoune (second center).

At the hinge, Camille Lopez, author of the victory drop Saturday just after coming into play, would be preferred to Romain Ntamack. He should be accompanied by Maxime Machenaud, substitute against the Pumas, rather than Baptiste Serin.

In front, Setiano would form the front line in the company of Camille Chat, to rest the hooker and captain Guilhem Guirado, and Cyril Baille.

Behind this first line, the team would be renewed 100% and confidence placed in the pair of Bernard Le Roux and Paul Gabrillagues.

The first, suspended for the three preparation matches, played last Saturday his first minutes (25) in competition for four and a half months; the second has not played since mid-August and the first warm-up round of the World Cup, against Scotland in Nice (32-3 on 17 August), after which he was suspended until the match against to the Argentineans.

Iturria is expected to find his position in the third row, with Louis Picamoles and Yacouba Camara, who would replace Grégory Alldritt and Wenceslas Lauret.

On Saturday, the Blues will return to the Suizenji Athletic Field in Kumamaoto, with the "continuous days" that made them suffer during the preparation: training from 9:00 to 12:00, with a few short breaks. They will rest Sunday.

The starting XV possible: Ramos - Raka, Guitoune, Fickou, Huget - (o) Lopez, (m) Machenaud - Iturria, Picamoles, Camara - Gabrillagues, B. Le Roux - Setiano, Cat, Baille

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