2023-08-05 22:01:30
Beaten in Scotland (25-21) for their first preparation match for the World Cup (September 8 to October 28), the Blues still showed interesting things with a team without all its leaders. At a press conference, coach Fabien Galthié stressed the importance of this kind of meeting to gain experience.
What do you remember from this defeat? The result or the way?
FABIEN GALTHIE. Everything is important. When you play a match like that, that’s what you’re looking for, a competitive context. That’s what we wanted: against this Scottish team, in their stadium, in front of their public… In our collective experience, everything is interesting to analyse, to review, to work on, to experience. It gives us an additional experience. It does not matter: a cape is also more experience for the players, for the group.
Is there frustration?
We wanted to live that. We wanted to have this experience, with this audience, with this opponent. Everything we’ve been through, we take it. It’s also part of our collective development, it’s more experience. Obviously, we have a first period at 21-3 and a second where we do not score (0-22) and we lose. It’s a preparation game.
Are you going to have a headache to make your list for the Worlds?
Why headache? On the contrary, it makes us happy when the players perform. What we want is to be competitive. There are many things that bring us satisfaction. This second period also interests us, to see how the trend could be reversed so radically, particularly in terms of the physical inability to hold the exchange. It’s been four years since I said that emulation is beneficial to the France team. We are on a search for collective performance. This match allows us to grow. It’s part of what we have to go through. We wanted to live an experience like that. There is not too much room for disappointment.
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