The Blues beat Wales at the last minute during the VI Nations Tournament on March 20, 2021. -

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  • The XV of France beat Wales on the 5th day of the VI Nations Tournament on Saturday. 

  • The Blues were however badly embarked at the start of the last twenty minutes, and despite three attempts refused, they were able to go for victory in stoppage time.

  • Thanks to this enhanced success, they are giving themselves a chance to win the Tournament, but it will be necessary to do hard against Scotland next Friday. 

At the Stade de France,

We would - obviously - have preferred to play this bad trick on the English, but we will be content to have deprived Wales of a grand slam in the stoppage of play of the last match of the Tournament.

Especially when this turnaround offers the XV of France an unexpected chance to win the VI Nations for the first time since 2010. Because with this fourth attempt by Brice Dulin synonymous with an offensive bonus, the Blues have their destiny in hand against the Scotland, next Friday.

Everything is not simple and it will perhaps be necessary to take out the calculators, but in summary, a big victory in this match of the third day postponed because of unexpected clustering would offer the trophy to France.

In detail, she is five points behind her opponent in the evening.

It must therefore win with the offensive bonus, at first.

But the difference in points is currently favorable to the Welsh (+61 against +41).

The Blues must therefore win with at least 21 points difference to finish first.

In the event of a perfect tie, we would then rely on the number of tries entered.

Here again, the Welsh are ahead, 20 against 15. If after all that French and Welsh are still tied, then the two nations would share the victory in this 2021 edition. A scenario that has not occurred since 1988 .

Do not think, in any case, that it is at all cooked for the Blues.

Scotland have a solid tournament, with a victory against England and two very short losses to Wales and Ireland.

Finally, this Saturday, she stuck eight tries and 52 points to the Italians.

“We watched their match, Scotland is a great team, which plays very well,” said Gaël Fickou.

We know it will be complicated, it is an opponent who has given us problems lately.

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Play it like in 2007

If the Blues won by a short header at Murrayfield last November during the Fall Cup, the previous two games had indeed given rise to great porridge.

Generally speaking, this is really not an opponent who France puts 20 points in view every morning.

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has also released the archives.

Since 1968, France has only had four victories with the gap that would allow it to win the Tournament, the last in 2007 (46-19).

“It's a huge challenge that presents itself to us, knows Arthur Vincent.

We will prepare with seriousness, application, concentration.

At least it's simple in the sense that you know what to do.

“The difficulty for the Blues will be to manage as well as possible the reduced preparation time for this match.

The crazy victory of the evening was worthily celebrated in the locker room, but from what we understood, the third half had to be sober at Marcoussis.

"Already, we must win, and then we will see"

"It was a huge emotion, shared with everyone, but we will have to come down quickly," warns Anthony Jelonch.

Present at the microphone just with him, Captain Charles Ollivon was not worried too much.

“The seesaw is not going to be complicated to do,” he said.

We're going to savor tonight, because it's important, but that's all.

We are already thinking of Friday, by the way, and everyone is heading in the same direction.

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As for the match itself and the recipe to apply, it was still a little early on Saturday to plan ahead.

The menu for the next few days promises to be full.

“The feat is not going to happen like this.

We will have to work hard, identify the Scots' flaws and how to exploit them, ”Jelonch says.

“We'll have to go in stages,” Fickou believes.

Already, we have to win, and then we'll see what happens.

In any case, if we have to go get a try or two to five minutes from the end, we now know that we can count on them.

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