PARIS: France have a fly-half crisis for Friday’s Nations Championship clash against South Africa, but former international forward Louis Picamoles told AFP that the real issue is who wins the battle up front.
France head into the match with one win and nine defeats from their last 10 Tests against the reigning world champions, and their four first-choice fly-halves are all out injured.
Before that sorry run began, Picamoles played in France’s 2009 victory over the Springboks, who were also the reigning world champions at that time, so he knows a thing or two about overcoming South Africa’s brute strength.
“When you are missing a Romain Ntamack or a Matthieu Jalibert, who are world class players at number 10, you cannot say there will be zero impact,” Picamoles told AFP by telephone.
