The XV of France Wins Preparatory Match Against Scotland but Acknowledges Room for Improvement

The XV of France beat Scotland, this Saturday evening, with a score of 30 to 27 in the context of the preparatory matches for the Rugby World Cup, scheduled from September 8 in France. Despite the victory, the French third line Charles Ollivon believes that the team is not yet physically ready.

“We are not yet physically ready, we have seen it: we are not at the level of preparation of the Scots who are a few weeks ahead of us”, declared Charles Ollivon after the meeting.

“We are still in development. We do preparation matches to be ready on September 8, we have to go through it, get our bearings, rework physically to get rid of all these weeks of work. It’s part of the job. I’m not so surprised it was so hard. Now we will recover well. We are going forward. We are here to win matches. It wasn’t easy, we had some air pockets, but we snatched victory. There are never easy matches, it’s very dense, very compact. Yes, we want to go further, do better, but we won. »