France ran in eight tries to beat Fiji 54-17 in Lyon, with Antoine Dupont exquisite at the base and Geoffrey Doumayrou’s new defence impressive, but the loss of key man Romain Ntamack leaves Fabien Galthié with a fly-half crisis of endemic proportions six days before the Springboks rumble into Paris.
Here’s our five takeaways from the game.
The top line
Nobody does a rugby opening ceremony quite like France, and with a stunning new Adidas kit, a sold-out Groupama Stadium and Dupont and Ntamack together in la charnière for the first time since March 2025, this had all the expectation and
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