France star Antoine Dupont has praised his workforce’s response to their dramatic defeat to England a fortnight in the past after they thrashed Italy on the Stadio Olimpico on Sunday and urged the necessity for focus forward of their conflict with Eire on March 8.
After a record-breaking afternoon for France, focus rapidly shifted to their subsequent Six Nations assembly in opposition to Eire with Dupont describing it as a possible event decider.
France will journey to Dublin tackle the unbeaten Irish having taken a bonus level victory in Rome with an enormous 73-24 victory over the Italians, the largest rating for France within the Six Nations.
“Once we regarded on the fixtures once they got here out, we suspected that the sport in opposition to Eire could be an essential match of the competitors,” Dupont instructed a information convention after the runaway win.
“We had little doubt that Eire would rack up the victories and the match shall be tremendous essential. We could possibly be in a greater scenario, however we’re nonetheless in competitors. We must play our greatest potential match.”
France path Eire by three factors within the desk, having overwhelmed Wales 43-0 of their opening recreation, and Italy on Sunday, however dropping to England by some extent two weeks in the past.
“When there are poor performances like that, there are two methods to react,” Dupont stated of the Twickenham defeat.
“Both you decrease your head otherwise you struggle again. We acquired again to work, we centered on the depth and the frame of mind that we wished to be in. We talked about it rather a lot throughout the week, particularly in regards to the begin of recreation, which was good, even when we did not rating right away. We have been rigorous and it paid off.”
Italy have been first to attain a attempt in Sunday’s conflict however France bounced again with vengeance to attain 11 of their very own, two of them from man-of-the-match Dupont.
“The entire workforce had a variety of enjoyable, we performed nice rugby. We have been strong on the basics first, with a great frame of mind,” the skipper added.
“The distinction at this time is that we caught the ball. We have been unable to clarify all these dealing with errors in England.”
Sunday’s conflict noticed 14 tries in whole for a brand new Six Nations document. France’s 11 tries simply beat their earlier better of seven in a Six Nations conflict.
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