France beat South Africa 21-19 at the Stade de France on Friday night, an injury-ravaged side winning the air whilst the Springboks won the scrum, and Antoine Dupont produced the finest individual display of his career to hold it all together.
Here’s our five takeaways from the game.
The top line
What a night. Honestly, by the hour mark you’d stopped trying to count the cards, the reviews and the bodies on the floor, and simply stood in Saint-Denis and watched two of the best sides in the world go at each other with a ferocity that belonged in a World
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