The France team will participate for the sixth consecutive time in the last four of the World Cup thanks to its success against Italy on Saturday.
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Force of habit for Les Bleues. The France team was aiming for a new qualification in the semi-finals of the World Cup. They assumed their status as favorites by winning (39-3) against Italy in the quarter-finals of the World Cup, Saturday, October 29. Thomas Darracq’s players had won their last three confrontations with the Transalpines in the Six Nations Tournament, but were wary of an opponent who had dominated them in a warm-up match, on September 9 in La Botte (26-19).
After a good start to the match, haloed by a try on a superb recovery from the Boulard-Grisez duo, the tricolor game seized up. Weighed down by approximations, the Blues had to wait until the hour mark before regaining all their attacking momentum and taking off (four tries in the last 20 minutes). The XV of France will face New Zealand in the semi-finals, winner of New Zealand (55-3).