Japan 15-42 France
Date:
Venue: Japan National Stadium, Tokyo
Referee: Ben O'Keeffe (New Zealand)
Attendance: 52,632
Japan v France Match Reports
France rounded off their Nations Championship southern series with a convincing 42-15 victory over Japan in Tokyo. Matthieu Jalibert and Maxime Lamothe both scored twice as Les Bleus ran in six tries to secure their second win of the tournament. A selection of match reports is listed below:
Japan v France - Match Highlights
Japan v France - Match Stats
Japan (15) 15
Try: Ishida(15'), Otsuka (35')
Conversion: Matsunaga (36')
Penalty: Matsunaga (10')
France (28) 42
Try: Lamothe (2', 51'), Jalibert (19', 43'), Roumat (23'), Lucu (30')
Conversion: Lucu (3', 20', 24', 31', 52'), Ntamack (44')
Man of the match: Théo Attissogbe (France)
Japan v France - Team Line-ups
Japan Team
Forwards
- 1 Sojiro Otsuka
- 2 Hayate Era
- 3 Keijiro Tamefusa
- 4 Harry Hockings
- 5 Warner Dearns (Captain)
- 6 Esei Haangana
- 7 Ben Gunter
- 8 Jack Cornelsen
Backs
- 9 Naoto Saito
- 10 Ryunosuke Ito
- 11 Kippei Ishida
- 12 Samisoni Tua
- 13 Dylan Riley
- 14 Kazuma Ueda
- 15 Takuro Matsunaga
Replacements
- 16 Kenji Sato
- 17 Takato Okabe
- 18 Izi Sword
- 19 Michael Stolberg
- 20 Michael Leitch
- 21 Tiennan Costley
- 22 Taira Main
- 23 Shunsuke Uenobo
France Team
Forwards
- 1 Jefferson Poirot
- 2 Maxime Lamothe
- 3 Régis Montagne
- 4 Florian Verhaeghe
- 5 Emmanuel Meafou
- 6 Lenni Nouchi
- 7 Marko Gazzotti
- 8 Alexandre Roumat
Backs
- 9 Maxime Lucu (Captain)
- 10 Romain Ntamack
- 11 Aaron Grandidier-Nkanang
- 12 Yoram Moefana
- 13 Fabien Brau-Boirie
- 14 Théo Attissogbe
- 15 Matthieu Jalibert
Replacements
- 16 Peato Mauvaka
- 17 Reda Wardi
- 18 Sipili Falatea
- 19 Hugo Auradou
- 20 Tom Staniforth
- 21 Killian Tixeront
- 22 Paul Graou
- 23 Kalvin Gourgues