Thread by @SprinterEmerite

🎨📽️[Thread] - Kicking game and coverages

Les Bleus used to occupy, recover the ball in the opposition side and then score quickly in transition (under 5 phases).
Well Saturday afternoon, that went wrong...
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France was stubborn in a playstyle that isn't what they plan all year.
And the guilty is *drum roll* the kicking game.

That's the first time that it was so defficient under Galthié.

1) Schematically
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2) Execution

Irishmen were simply better, technically, individually, Murray, Sexton, Keenan, Lowe... All rocked their international level kicking game.
For Les Bleus, Besides Dupont, kicking game was to much inconsistent.
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3) Coverage system

Classic lesson gave by the irishmen. the backfield was perfectly locked by the back three. Rotation were balanced af.
France played in 2 high without wingers but with his best defender...
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4) Player profiles

This is linked with the profiles of the irishmen: Keenan & Hansen the sky masters, all around players. And the atypic Lowe with his mammuth boot.
In opposition, Penaud & Dumortier are "just" creators and finishers
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5) QI/reads/adaptation

Maybe the most important point of them all. Exemple is quite flagrant.
The back three in the defensive line, weakside winger who doesn't cover on a territorial kick in a dense zone... Harsh.
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6) Limitations...

Dupont as the main piece of the system cover is for me a problem. Well i mean, Dupont is not the problem, but that nobody is able to assume the covering and kicking game as qualitative as his... that's the problem.
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