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French wary of Ireland changes

Saturday, February 14 2015 by SNTV
  • Intro:

    France captain Thierry Dusautoir says his team have "many problems" with the return of Ireland's Lions players Jamie Heaslip, Sean O'Brien and Jonathan Sexton for their Six Nations match on Saturday.

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    One team's perfect start to the Six Nations will end in Dublin on Saturday. France arrived at the Aviva Stadium off the back of their 15-8 win against Scotland

    last week and will be looking for revenge against the Irish, who secured their first title since 2009 with a rare win in Paris last year.

    Ireland got off to a solid start to this campaign with a 26-3 win against Italy in Rome and that was without three of their Lions players.

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Thierry Dusautoir, France captain
    "I think we have many problems with the comeback of (Jamie) Heaslip (Sean) O'Brien who are leaders of the team. I think the Irish side will be better than it was last week. Obviously (Jonathan) Sexton will bring his experience with him to his side. I know that he had a big injury last week. But he is quite sure about his capacity to play this game."

    France have made one change themselves, Eddy Ben Arous replaces the injured Alexandre Meni at loosehead prop. It will be his debut, perhaps making the unpredictable French even more intriguing ahead of this meeting on Valentine's day.

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