Blueberries in the final! The France team overthrew England on Sunday in the last four of the U20 Rugby World Cup (52-31). New show of strength from Sébastien Calvet’s men who scored seven tries and will face Ireland in the final on Friday July 14 at 7:00 p.m.
Jostled from the start by the English decided to take the lead, the Bleuets have long suffered the law of the teammates of Lewis Chessum (2nd row and captain). Two tries scored in quick succession by Sam Harris (11th) and Alex Wills (13th), then another from Cunningham-South (37th), forced the French to return to the locker room behind in the score (24-14). This despite the two responses from Mathis Ferté (16th) and Paul Costes (24th).
But in the second half, it was a hurricane that passed over the English defense with no less than five tries scored for a single English side. Led by a third line of fire (Nouchi – Jégou and Gazzotti) the Bleuets established their domination from the penalty try awarded by the match referee (47th) after the English second line Finn Carnduff collapsed the maul, which earned him a fatal yellow card. Which the French took advantage of by scoring two numerical superiority tries (Nouchi 54th and Gazzotti 58th).
Friday in Cape Town against Ireland (7:00 p.m.), Les Bleuets will try to lift their third consecutive world trophy.
