Kumamoto (Japan) (AFP)
Guilhem Guirado and Antoine Dupont, regular captain and hooker and half scrum-holders, were placed Friday on the bench of the XV of France to face Tonga Sunday in Kumamoto (South of Japan) in World Cup.
The Federation announced Thursday the holders, and the coach Jacques Brunel has waited twenty-four hours over to designate replacements.
The other alternates of the starting XV, which had been announced after Thursday without the substitutes, are Cyril Baille (left pillar), Emerick Setiano (right pillar), Bernard Le Roux (2nd row), Yacouba Camara (3rd row), Camille Lopez (opener) and Pierre-Louis Barassi (center). The latter, arrived during the competition after the package of Wesley Fofana, could know at 21 years his first selection.
In total, fifteen of the twenty-three players will chained against Tonga a second match in four days after the one against the United States on Wednesday (33-9).
Composition, of the France team: Medard - Penaud, Vakatawa, Guitoune, Raka - (o) Ntamack, (m) Serin - Ollivon, Alldritt, Lauret - Vahaamahina, Gabrillagues - Slimani, Cat, Poirot (cap)
Replacements: Guirado, Baille, Setiano, Roux, Camara, Dupont, Lopez, Barassi
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