Time |
Score |
|
4 |
5 - 0 |
Julien Pierre over the try line - great break from Lakafia after a fantastic piece of plundering around the breakdown from Lievremont's charges
|
5 |
7 - 0 |
Yachvili adds the extras with ease
|
11 |
12 - 0 |
Francois Trinh-Duc profits from an interception and with Clerc outside he ignores the speedster and runs in the try himself
|
12 |
14 - 0 |
Yachvili knocks over the extras - 14-0 to France
|
17 |
14 - 3 |
Arlidge makes amends for his earlier miss with a confident strike
|
20 |
17 - 3 |
Quality strike from the left boot of Yachvili from a way back
|
28 |
20 - 3 |
Yachvili keeps the scoreboard ticking over for France
|
30 |
20 - 8 |
Arlidge tries the grubber but it rebounds back into his hands and he crashes over
|
34 |
25 - 8 |
What a score...Yachvili at his best puts Rougerie away who offloads with SBW-esque hands to put away Clerc..great play
|
38 |
25 - 11 |
Arlidge knocks it over with ease..
|
49 |
25 - 16 |
And it's that man Arlidge again - he has been superb - takes advantage of poor French tackling and he dives over.
|
50 |
25 - 18 |
Arlidge - conversion
|
58 |
25 - 21 |
Arlidge keeps his cool and knocks the ball over
|
67 |
28 - 21 |
Yachvili knocks over the three with ease
|
70 |
33 - 21 |
Nallet crosses the line in the corner exploiting an overlap...heartbreaking for Japan but still ten minutes left in the clash
|
71 |
35 - 21 |
Yachvili keeps the scoreboard ticking over with an impressive conversion
|
77 |
40 - 21 |
What a try from France - Heymans makes the break with Pape crossing the line after a great counter-attack
|
78 |
42 - 21 |
Yachvili - conversion
|
80+1 |
47 - 21 |
And that's the ball game - Parra runs in the ball in the dying embers of the game to put some gloss on the scoreboard.
|