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Historical!

The Scots won in England (11-6) for the first time since ... 1983. The Five Nations Tournament was then won by France with Serge Blanco, Pierre Berbizier and Jean-Pierre Rives.

One hundred and fifty years after their first opposition, the English got their feet in the rug and offered the oldest trophy in world rugby, the Calcutta Cup, to their best enemy.

Scottish captain Stuart Hogg had promised that he and his teammates would break the Indian sign.

But he was probably one of the few to believe it.

Shining with solidarity and generosity, Gregor Townsend's men mistreated the locals.

And it was a test by winger Duhan van der Merwe (29th), born in South Africa, which made the difference.

Eddie Jones, he can bite his fingers: his England team, already struggling against French reservists in the final of the Autumn Nations Cup in December, seems to be stagnating.

“For us it was a bad day.

I did not prepare the team well enough, we were wrong and we were far from our best level, he explained at a press conference.

I don't know exactly (what went wrong), if I did I would have corrected it.

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Unable to react to a team of Scotland as courageous as awkward, the vice-world champions did not do justice to their status.

Finally, the XV du Chardon did not tremble until the opener of Racing 92 Finn Russell received a yellow card for an unfortunate tripod (37th).

A feat.

"This calm with which we played, this solidarity, and this level of effort, it was superb," ​​said the Scottish coach Gregor Townsend.

We had a good feeling these last few weeks, with the way the players were training and coming together, that we would play well.

But for the first match of the Tournament, with the first selection for some for a while or the very first selection, this level of performance is above our expectations.

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