A return that could do good to the attack of the XV of France. Injured in the right knee and forfeited for the first two matches of the Tournament in Italy and Ireland, Jonathan Danty is on the list of 42 players selected by the Blues coach Fabien Galthié to prepare for the reception of Scotland on Sunday February 26. The 30-year-old player, touched during a Top 14 match played with his club from La Rochelle to Perpignan on December 31, has established himself for a year and a half as an executive of the tricolor group.
The center three-quarter could return to competition on Saturday with the Maritimes. The former Stade Français player is part of the La Rochelle group which will face Castres on Saturday in the league. Jonathan Danty will start on the bench, but could play his first minutes of play in 2023 in the Tarn a week before the meeting between the XV of France and Scotland at the Stade de France. In his absence, his usual partner in the center Gaël Fickou formed a pair with Bordeaux player Yoram Moefana.
Reunion with Marcoussis
The French staff, on the other hand, was forced to remove one of its club partners from the group: Uini Atonio. Suspended three weeks after a dangerous tackle during the defeat (32-19) of the Blues in Dublin on Saturday, the massive right pillar is replaced within the group by the player from Oyonnax, Thomas Laclayat.
The XV of France will prepare at their usual training center in Marcoussis for the first time since the 2022 autumn tour. Italy. The Blues then stayed in the Italian capital before heading directly to Ireland. Beaten for the first time since the summer of 2021 in Dublin, Fabien Galthié’s men must now recover against one of the two undefeated teams in the competition.