France team: Winners and losers as Grégory Alldritt returns to Fabien Galthié’s favour but exiled wing forced to wait after five year absence

France boss Fabien Galthié has named his side to face the Springboks on Friday 13th, as he looks to topple the world champions, despite leading an injury-ravaged side.

Here are our winners and losers.

Winners

Maxime Lucu

With the great Antoine Dupont moving to fly-half, Lucu settles back into the number nine shirt as the duo look to bring the game to the Springboks. Lucu held the reins at scrum-half for France during Dupont’s injury absence, but was relegated to the bench last weekend against Fiji. Other than Dupont, there’s arguably no other scrum-half in world rugby who could keep Lucu