Six Nations - Stade de France, 4 February 2012, 15:30 local, 14:30 GMT
France (15) 30 - 12 (6) Italy (FT)

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Summary

Time Score  
11 3 - 0

Yachvili - penalty goal

12

Yachvili strokes the ball through the posts from the left flank after the Italians went offside at the breakdown

17 3 - 3

Burton - drop goal

18

Fly-half Kris Burton boots a terrific drop goal just as their progress was dying away.

20 8 - 3

Rougerie - try

21 10 - 3

Aurelien Rougerie picks a good line to exploit a big gap in the Italian defence. Poor Italian defence but well taken from France. Yachvili adds the extras

29 10 - 6

Kris Burton slots the kick from just inside the 10m line

34 15 - 6

Malzieu - try

35

Terrific try from Julien Malzieu who handed off one player then outstepped the other to finish in the left corner

46 15 - 9

Burton slots the kick from in front of the posts

51 18 - 9

Yachvili lands a penalty from the 22

53 23 - 9

Trinh-Duc chips ahead, hacks on; Rougerie joins in and then Clerc taps on again before collecting and scoring. What footballing skills from the French

54 25 - 9

Yachvili - conversion

60 25 - 12

Botes lands the penalty minutes after coming on as a replacement

71 30 - 12

The ball comes back from the Francois Trinh-Duc's surge and Fofana goes over in the left corner - he looks like a top player

Timeline

Time France  Score  Italy
0 start of first half start of first half
11 Yachvili - penalty goal 3 - 0
17 3 - 3 Burton - drop goal
20 Rougerie - try 8 - 3
21 Yachvili - conversion 10 - 3
29 10 - 6 Burton - penalty goal
34 Malzieu - try 15 - 6
40 end of first half end of first half
40 start of second half start of second half
46 15 - 9 Burton - penalty goal
50 Nallet - sub off
Maestri - sub on
51 Yachvili - penalty goal 18 - 9
53 Clerc - try 23 - 9
54 Yachvili - conversion
Servat - sub off
Szarzewski - sub on		 25 - 9
55 Burton - sub off
Botes - sub on
van Zyl - sub off
Bortolami - sub on
Canale - sub on
Sgarbi - sub off
60 25 - 12 Botes - penalty goal
62 Poux - sub on
Yachvili - sub off
Debaty - sub off
Parra - sub on		 Lo Cicero Vaina - sub off
Cittadini - sub on
64 Picamoles - sub off
Harinordoquy - sub on
67 Barbieri - sub off
Favaro - sub on
70 Geldenhuys - yellow card
71 Fofana - try 30 - 12
75 Beauxis - sub on
Trinh-Duc - sub off
Debaty - sub on
Mas - sub off
Mermoz - sub on
Rougerie - sub off		 d'Apice - sub on
Ghiraldini - sub off
Semenzato - sub on
Gori - sub off
80+1 end of second half
end of half		 end of second half
end of half
0
81

Notes

 
Result France won by a margin of 18 points
Six Nations points France 2, Italy 0
 
Ground name Stade de France, Paris
Attendance 79563
 
Referee N Owens (Wales)
 
France Test debuts W Fofana, Y Maestri
Italy Test debuts WT Botes, G Venditti

Teams

France Italy
Tries Rougerie (20), Malzieu (34), Clerc (53), Fofana (71) Tries none
Cons Yachvili (21, 54) Cons none
Pens Yachvili (11, 51) Pens Burton (29, 46), Botes (60)
Drops none Drops Burton (17)
    Team
15 FB
Maxime Medard
14 W
Vincent Clerc
13 C
Aurelien Rougerie
12 C
Wesley Fofana
11 W
Julien Malzieu
10 FH
Francois Trinh-Duc
9 SH
Dimitri Yachvili
1 P
Vincent Debaty
2 H
William Servat
3 P
Nicolas Mas
4 L
Pascal Pape
5 L
Lionel Nallet
6 F
Thierry Dusautoir (c)
7 F
Julien Bonnaire
8 N8
Louis Picamoles
    Replacements
16 H
Dimitri Szarzewski
17 P
Jean-Baptiste Poux
18 L
Yoann Maestri
19 N8
Imanol Harinordoquy
20 SH
Morgan Parra
21 FH
Lionel Beauxis
22 C
Maxime Mermoz
    Team
15 FB
Andrea Masi
14 W
Giovanbattista Venditti
13 C
Tommaso Benvenuti
12 C
Alberto Sgarbi
11 W
Luke McLean
10 FH
Kris Burton
9 SH
Edoardo Gori
1 P
Andrea Lo Cicero Vaina
2 H
Leonardo Ghiraldini
3 P
Martin Castrogiovanni
4 L
Quintin Geldenhuys
70
5 L
Cornelius van Zyl
6 F
Alessandro Zanni
7 F
Robert Barbieri
8 N8
Sergio Parisse (c)
    Replacements
16 H
Tommaso d'Apice
17 P
Lorenzo Cittadini
18 L
Marco Bortolami
19 F
Simone Favaro
20 SH
Fabio Semenzato
21 FH
Tobie Botes
22 C
Gonzalo Canale

Match stats

France   Italy
4 Tries 0
2 from 4 Conversion goals 0 from 0
2 from 3 Penalty goals 3 from 4
57.1% Kick at goal success 75.0%
0 Dropped goals 1 (1 missed)
Kick/pass/run
26 Kicks from hand 24
132 Passes 150
91 Runs 106
473 Metres run with ball 458
Attacking
40% Possession 60%
34% Territory 66%
7 Clean breaks 5
16 Defenders beaten 7
14 Offloads 5
63 from 67 (94.0%) Rucks won 94 from 101 (93.1%)
3 from 4 (75.0%) Mauls won 7 from 9 (77.8%)
20 Turnovers conceded 19
Defensive
102/7 Tackles made/missed 74/16
93.6% Tackling success rate 82.2%
Set pieces
6 won, 0 lost (100.0%) Scrums on own feed 5 won, 4 lost (55.6%)
8 won, 3 lost (72.7%) Lineouts on own throw 11 won, 2 lost (84.6%)
Discipline
8 Penalties conceded 8
0/0 Yellow/red cards 1/0

Fra stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Medard 0/0 0 6/8/8 67 0 1 3 1 4/1 0/0 0 0/0
W Clerc 1/0 5 2/2/2 23 0 0 0 1 5/0 0/0 1 0/0
C Rougerie 1/1 5 4/7/6 54 1 3 1 2 6/0 0/0 1 0/0
C Fofana 1/0 5 0/1/13 85 1 3 0 2 8/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Malzieu 1/0 5 0/6/9 138 3 5 3 2 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
FH Trinh-Duc 0/1 0 6/21/8 21 1 1 0 3 8/0 0/0 0 0/0
SH Yachvili 0/0 10 6/48/2 2 0 0 0 3 1/1 0/0 0 0/0
P Debaty 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
H Servat 0/0 0 0/2/6 9 0 0 1 0 8/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Mas 0/0 0 0/3/1 0 0 0 1 0 5/0 0/0 1 0/0
L Pape 0/0 0 0/2/7 7 0 1 0 2 12/1 4/0 1 0/0
L Nallet 0/0 0 0/1/1 1 0 0 0 0 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
F Dusautoir 0/0 0 0/4/7 7 0 1 1 0 14/1 0/0 0 0/0
F Bonnaire 0/0 0 0/3/3 2 0 0 0 0 5/2 2/0 0 0/0
N8 Picamoles 0/1 0 0/10/10 50 1 1 4 1 7/0 0/0 0 0/0
(H) Szarzewski 0/0 0 0/0/4 7 0 0 0 3 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Poux 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 1 0/0
(L) Maestri 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 2/0 2/0 0 0/0
(N8) Harinordoquy 0/0 0 0/1/1 0 0 0 0 0 3/0 1/0 0 0/0
(SH) Parra 0/1 0 1/12/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(FH) Beauxis 0/0 0 1/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(C) Mermoz 0/0 0 0/1/0 0 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
Key:  T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

Italy stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Masi 0/0 0 4/8/12 173 2 2 0 0 1/2 1/0 0 0/0
W Venditti 0/0 0 0/0/5 10 0 0 0 2 2/2 0/0 1 0/0
C Benvenuti 0/0 0 1/2/2 8 0 0 1 1 4/1 0/0 0 0/0
C Sgarbi 0/0 0 0/2/4 7 0 0 1 0 2/1 0/0 0 0/0
W McLean 0/0 0 0/4/9 53 1 1 0 4 2/1 0/0 0 0/0
FH Burton 0/0 9 10/15/5 7 0 1 0 2 2/0 0/0 1 0/0
SH Gori 0/0 0 7/67/3 5 1 0 1 1 2/3 0/0 1 0/0
P Lo Cicero Vaina 0/0 0 0/0/9 12 0 0 0 1 6/1 0/0 1 0/0
H Ghiraldini 0/0 0 0/5/5 29 0 2 0 1 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Castrogiovanni 0/0 0 0/2/9 3 0 0 0 0 5/1 0/1 1 0/0
L Geldenhuys 0/0 0 0/4/4 5 0 0 0 0 5/0 1/0 1 1/0
L van Zyl 0/0 0 0/2/3 3 0 0 0 1 6/0 3/0 1 0/0
F Zanni 0/0 0 0/4/8 15 0 0 0 2 9/0 2/0 0 0/0
F Barbieri 0/0 0 0/0/7 40 0 1 0 0 6/2 1/0 0 0/0
N8 Parisse 0/0 0 0/10/10 53 1 0 1 0 7/2 1/1 1 0/0
(H) d'Apice 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 1 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Cittadini 0/0 0 0/0/2 4 0 0 0 1 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Bortolami 0/0 0 0/3/3 10 0 0 0 0 2/0 2/0 0 0/0
(F) Favaro 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(SH) Semenzato 0/0 0 0/10/2 9 0 0 0 1 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(FH) Botes 0/0 3 2/9/2 8 0 0 1 1 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(C) Canale 0/0 0 0/3/2 4 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
Key:  T/A Tries / Try Assists Pts Points scored
K/P/R Kick / Pass / Run MR Metres Run with ball
CB Clean Breaks DB Defenders Beaten OL OffLoads TO TurnOvers
Tack Tackles made / missed LO LineOuts won on throw / stolen on opp throw
Pen Penalties conceded Y/R Yellow / Red cards

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