{"id":22226,"date":"2026-02-16T06:13:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22226"},"modified":"2026-02-16T06:13:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:13:28","slug":"six-nations-2026-will-anybody-deny-flowing-france-a-grand-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22226","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Will anybody deny flowing France a Grand Slam?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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In some ways, what Les Bleus achieved in Cardiff was nothing special – Argentina, New Zealand and South Africa had already hit Steve Tandy’s side for half-centuries in the autumn.<\/p>\n

The home side felt their performance was reasonable – and certainly better than in the round one hammering by England – yet they were still overwhelmed in all departments.<\/p>\n

France scored their first try after 88 seconds and had three inside the opening 15 minutes, with 20-year-old centre Fabien Brau-Boirie scoring on his debut and electric wing Louis Bielle-Biarrey going over for his 23rd try in 24 internationals.<\/p>\n

Bielle-Biarrey’s fellow wing Theo Attissogbe, who has replaced France’s all-time record try-scorer Damian Penaud in the side,<\/a> scored twice in the second half as the visitors claimed their biggest Six Nations triumph in the Welsh capital.<\/p>\n

They could have had even more with an attack marshalled by Antoine Dupont and Matthieu Jalibert racking up 28 line breaks, 31 defenders beaten, 1,136 carry metres and 24 offloads.<\/p>\n

Instead, their final try came in the 60th minute from second row Charles Ollivon.<\/p>\n

“When you play a team like that you have to be good at everything,” said former England and British and Irish Lions captain Martin Johnson on BBC One.<\/p>\n

“France had zero worries because they knew they were going to win, they knew they were too good.<\/p>\n

“They’re all so comfortable on the ball. When they’re confident and there’s no jeopardy, I was thinking ‘thank god I’m not on that field’.<\/p>\n

“It’s so difficult to contain them when they’re that confident and don’t feel that anything is going to go wrong for them.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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