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Townsend’s team takes Paris for the first time in tournament history. Van der Merwe’s goals (2) are decisive
Six Nations 2021, France-Scotland 23-27: the Scottish game, Wales the trophy (Ph. Sebastiano Pessina)
At the Stade de France, the “Final” of the 2021 France-Scotland Six Nations begins under torrential rain. The output is from the transalpine brand, with the Bleus -today in white for hospitality work- that take the lead thanks to the placement of Ntamack, but that in the quarter of an hour are surpassed by the marked marking of the guests, reactive in the closing with van der Merwe an action composed of repeated charges in the opponent’s five meters. There is the goal, there is the conversion of Russel: it goes 3-7.
The game lives on moments. After taking the lead, Scotland put another three points on the score sheet, always with Russel, for the temporary 3-10, but without fully exploiting the favorable wave. The French, against the ropes, manage to limit their rivals and obtain, in the twenty-seventh, a kick that Ntamack transforms to 6-10.
Closing the distance energizes Ollivon and his associates repeatedly hitting the twenty-two Scots. Scrum after scrum, charge after charge, foul after foul, until the moment the ball leaves a platform under the posts: Dupont ball in hand sends out for Penaud who receives avoiding a van der Merwe tackle attempt , of there is a passage inside for the hurried Dulin who enters the goal; France’s first in the 13-10 match.
Final minute of the first half: Bleus boldly retrieve the ball starting with Alldritt to shake up before half-time that leads Scotland back to being undisciplined. Captain Hogg be advised: British are at fourteen. Follows a touch in the five meters of the guests, but France spoils. Then we go to rest on 10-13.
The second part opens with a very long attack phase by the locals, who take advantage of their superiority to besiege the Scottish middle zone. In the forty-seventh Penaud’s flick: the winger receives on the high seas, after a beautiful combination that involves Ntamack and Dulin, and with a kick to himself he accelerates away from the direct marker pressing the ball that rebounds once it has entered the end zone. . There would also be ends for the “technical goal”, but the race director validates forcing Ntamack to a difficult conversion, which never comes. The score moves to 18-10.
We reached the fiftieth. Scotland find Hogg after the yellow card, but lose Rory Sutherland, who is replaced by Oil Kebble, with an arm problem.
With their patron back on the field, the Bravehearts reorganized by scuttling forward again, with the forwards. In the fifty-third, Russell capitalizes on the points of 18-13: the prelude to what happens seven minutes later, coinciding with the edge of the game hour. From a touch in attack, over five meters, the guests organize a drive in which the ball -touched by a French guard- first shoots forward and then backwards to arrive in a fortunate, regular way and reviewed by the TMO, in Cherry’s hands that as soon as he can, he makes a small acceleration and throws himself to go further. It is a goal that is completed with conversion. Scotland signs the 18-20 points.
At the Stade de France the schemes jump: there are those who seek the victory of the match and the tournament, those who instead of the affirmation in the match and the place of honor in the tournament. France reacts by charging with its head down and finding the signature, practically immediate, with the forceful action of Rebbadj (not converted by Ntmack).
So we enter the last six hundred seconds in 23-20: all with hourglasses and calculators in hand. In the seventy-first, then, the episode that suggests a suspenseful ending. Russell, in attack action on the line, charges with his arm raised – just below the neck – Dulin: the impact is strong, the referee and the TMO notice it and for the opening comes the red card.
France is in fourteen but the inferiority lasts only two minutes, because in the next action, where Scotland recovers the oval and organizes a maintenance play from a lineout, Serin – who has entered the field for a few minutes – is to pinch where he you should not be immediately warned by the referee.
Last five minutes: fourteen against fourteen. Teams feel all the weariness of these eighty experienced roller-coaster-paced hand spins. Scotland, when time is up, has one last infinite shakeup: twenty-reset multiphase. Charges, pace, organization, then the ball to Hastings that opens the flag for van der Merwe’s legs. His goal, complete with the Hastings conversion. This is how the final of the Six Nations 2021 ends: France-Scotland 23-27. The game is for the Scots, the trophy for Wales.
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Six Nations 2021, France-Scotland 23-27, the score.
Frankhe: 15 Brice Dulin, 14 Damian Penaud, 13 Virimi Vakatawa, 12 Arthur Vincent, 11 Gael Fickou, 10 Romain Ntamack, 9 Antoine Dupont, 8 Gregory Alldritt, 7 Charles Ollivon (c), 6 Anthony Jelonch, 5 Swan Rebbadj, 4 Bernard le Roux, 3 Mohamed Haouas, 2 Julien Marchand, 1 Cyril Baille
Available: 16 Camille Chat, 17 Jean-Baptiste Gros, 18 Uini Atonio, 19 Romain Taofifenua, 20 Dylan Cretin, 21 Baptiste Serin, 22 Anthony Bouthier, 23 Teddy Thomas
France top scorers
Place: Brice Dulin (36 ′), Damian Penaud (47 ′), Rebbadj (66 ′)
Conversion: Romain Ntamack (37 ′)
Penalties: Romain Ntamack (9 ′, 27 ′)
Scotland: 15 Stuart Hogg (c), 14 Darcy Graham, 13 Chris Harris, 12 Sam Johnson, 11 Duhan van der Merwe, 10 Finn Russell, 9 Ali Price, 8 Nick Haining, 7 Hamish Watson, 6 Jamie Ritchie, 5 Grant Gilchrist, 4 Sam Skinner, 3 Zander Fagerson, 2 George Turner, 1 Rory Sutherland
Available: 16 David Cherry, 17 Oli Kebble, 18 Simon Berghan, 19 Alex Craig, 20 Ryan Wilson, 21 Scott Steele, 22 Adam Hastings, 23 Huw Jones
Scotland top scorers
Mete: van der Merwe (15 ′, (80 ‘+ 6), David Cherry (61 ′),
Conversion: Finn Russell (16 ′, 62 ′), Adam Hastings (80 ‘+ 7)
Free throws: Finn Russell (19 ′, 53 ′)
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