Six Nations - Stade de France, 11 March 2012, 16:00 local, 15:00 GMT
France (9) 22 - 24 (14) England (FT)

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Summary

Time Score  
12 0 - 5

Farrell snuffles up some loose ball on the halfway line and puts in a lovely offload to Manu Tuilagi who charges into open field and sees off the French tackler to go over the try line - superb try

14 0 - 7

Superb conversion from Farrell who knocks it over from the touchline

16 3 - 7

Beauxis nails a lovely penalty from the halfway line to reduce England's lead to four

17 3 - 12

What a break from Ben Morgan - he makes 20 metres before offloading to Ben Foden who goes over for England - what a match we have on our hands here

18 3 - 14

Farrell knocks over the two from in front of the posts

32 6 - 14

Dupuy knocks over the three points from in front of the posts

39 9 - 14

Lionel Beauxis knocks it over to reduce England's lead to five points

49 9 - 17

Farrell knocks over the three points despite the boos ringing out in the Stade de France

64 12 - 17

Parra knocks over the three and France are within five points of England now

68 15 - 17

Beauxis nails a superb kick from the halfway line - England's lead down to two...

70 15 - 22

What a move from England. Tom Croft goes over for a stunning solo effort after exploiting a rare gap in the France defence

71 15 - 24

Farrell shows impressive composure to knock the ball over from the touch line

74 20 - 24

Fofana has now scored four in four for France and Les Bleus are back within four points of England

75 22 - 24

Parra nails a superb conversion from the touchline - brilliant from the scrum-half

Timeline

Time France  Score  England
0 start of first half start of first half
12 0 - 5 Tuilagi - try
14 0 - 7 Farrell - conversion
16 Beauxis - penalty goal 3 - 7
17 3 - 12 Foden - try
18 3 - 14 Farrell - conversion
32 Dupuy - penalty goal 6 - 14
36 Mermoz - sub on
Clerc - sub off
39 Beauxis - penalty goal 9 - 14
40 end of first half end of first half
40 start of second half start of second half
49 Poux - sub off
Szarzewski - sub off
Debaty - sub on
Servat - sub on
Dupuy - sub off
Parra - sub on
9 - 17 Farrell - penalty goal
52 Sharples - yellow card
54 Nallet - sub on
Maestri - sub off
55 Palmer - sub on
Botha - sub off
62 Dowson - sub on
Morgan - sub off
64 Parra - penalty goal 12 - 17
66 Bonnaire - sub off
Picamoles - sub on
68 Beauxis - penalty goal 15 - 17 Cole - sub off
Stevens - sub on
70 15 - 22 Croft - try
71 15 - 24 Farrell - conversion
73 Beauxis - sub off
Trinh-Duc - sub on
Dickson - sub off
Youngs - sub on
74 Fofana - try 20 - 24 Dowson - sub off
Webber - sub on
75 Parra - conversion
Poux - sub on
Mas - sub off
22 - 24
80 end of second half
end of half
end of second half
end of half
0
80

Notes

 
Result England won by a margin of 2 points
Six Nations points England 2, France 0
 
Ground name Stade de France, Paris
Attendance 79596
 
Referee ACP Rolland (Ireland)
 
France Test debuts none
England Test debuts none

Teams

France England
Tries Fofana (74) Tries Tuilagi (12), Foden (17), Croft (70)
Cons Parra (75) Cons Farrell (14, 18, 71)
Pens Beauxis (16, 39, 68), Dupuy (32), Parra (64) Pens Farrell (49)

Match stats

France   England
1 Tries 3
1 from 1 Conversion goals 3 from 3
5 from 7 Penalty goals 1 from 2
75.0% Kick at goal success 80.0%
0 (2 missed) Dropped goals 0
Kick/pass/run
32 Kicks from hand 29
145 Passes 92
114 Runs 62
358 Metres run with ball 361
Attacking
59% Possession 41%
58% Territory 42%
4 Clean breaks 5
13 Defenders beaten 6
18 Offloads 2
89 from 92 (96.7%) Rucks won 50 from 56 (89.3%)
3 from 4 (75.0%) Mauls won 1 from 1 (100.0%)
16 Turnovers conceded 14
Defensive
70/6 Tackles made/missed 97/13
92.1% Tackling success rate 88.2%
Set pieces
8 won, 0 lost (100.0%) Scrums on own feed 7 won, 1 lost (87.5%)
9 won, 2 lost (81.8%) Lineouts on own throw 8 won, 2 lost (80.0%)
Discipline
5 Penalties conceded 11
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 Poitrenaud 0/0 0 3/11/10 73 1 1 1 2 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
W Clerc 0/0 0 2/1/5 6 0 0 1 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Rougerie 0/0 0 2/4/8 54 1 2 0 1 5/0 0/0 0 0/0
C Fofana 1/0 5 0/4/6 46 2 3 0 3 2/0 0/0 1 0/0
W Malzieu 0/0 0 0/2/11 51 0 0 4 4 0/1 0/0 0 0/0
FH Beauxis 0/0 9 14/26/4 0 0 0 2 1 4/2 0/0 0 0/0
SH Dupuy 0/0 3 5/46/0 0 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
P Poux 0/0 0 0/0/2 0 0 0 1 0 4/0 0/0 1 0/0
H Szarzewski 0/0 0 0/2/8 23 0 1 2 1 5/1 0/0 0 0/0
P Mas 0/0 0 0/0/6 5 0 0 1 1 6/0 0/0 1 0/0
L Pape 0/0 0 0/1/11 12 0 0 1 1 7/0 1/0 0 0/0
L Maestri 0/0 0 0/0/1 1 0 0 0 0 3/0 1/0 0 0/0
F Dusautoir 0/0 0 0/2/6 6 0 0 0 0 9/0 0/0 0 0/0
F Bonnaire 0/0 0 0/1/3 7 0 2 1 0 6/1 2/0 1 0/0
N8 Harinordoquy 0/0 0 0/2/16 35 0 1 2 2 9/1 4/1 0 0/0
(H) Servat 0/0 0 0/1/7 12 0 0 1 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Debaty 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Nallet 0/0 0 0/1/1 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(F) Picamoles 0/0 0 0/2/5 25 0 3 1 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(SH) Parra 0/1 5 0/35/1 2 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(FH) Trinh-Duc 0/0 0 1/2/1 0 0 0 0 0 0/0 0/0 0 0/0
(W) Mermoz 0/0 0 1/2/1 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

Eng stats

Pos   T/A Pts K/P/R MR CB DB OL TO Tack LO Pen Y/R
FB Foden 1/0 5 3/3/8 91 0 0 0 1 1/1 0/0 1 0/0
W Ashton 0/0 0 3/3/6 44 1 1 0 0 4/1 0/0 0 0/0
C Tuilagi 1/0 5 1/2/6 80 1 1 0 1 4/0 0/0 1 0/0
C Barritt 0/0 0 0/7/6 5 0 0 1 2 8/2 0/0 0 0/0
W Sharples 0/0 0 1/0/2 15 0 0 0 0 2/2 0/0 1 1/0
FH Farrell 0/0 9 12/13/2 0 0 0 0 1 9/0 0/0 0 0/0
SH Dickson 0/1 0 6/49/1 10 1 0 0 4 4/1 0/0 1 0/0
P Corbisiero 0/0 0 0/0/2 0 0 0 0 1 4/1 0/0 1 0/0
H Hartley 0/0 0 0/3/4 0 0 0 0 0 9/1 0/0 2 0/0
P Cole 0/0 0 0/0/3 0 0 0 0 0 6/0 0/0 0 0/0
L Botha 0/0 0 0/0/2 10 0 0 0 1 3/0 0/0 1 0/0
L Parling 0/0 0 0/0/3 5 0 0 0 1 11/1 2/0 1 0/0
F Croft 1/0 5 0/0/2 25 1 2 0 1 7/1 5/2 2 0/0
F Robshaw 0/0 0 0/7/4 11 0 0 0 1 13/1 0/0 0 0/0
N8 Morgan 0/1 0 0/3/8 64 1 2 1 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(H) Webber 0/0 0 0/0/0 0 0 0 0 0 2/0 0/0 0 0/0
(P) Stevens 0/0 0 0/0/1 0 0 0 0 0 3/0 0/0 0 0/0
(L) Palmer 0/0 0 0/0/1 1 0 0 0 0 3/1 1/0 0 0/0
(N8) Dowson 0/0 0 0/1/1 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 0/0 0 0/0
(SH) Youngs 0/0 0 0/1/0 0 0 0 0 0 1/0 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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