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Le Toulousain Saito titulaire, le Bordelais Tatafu sur le banc : la compo du Japon face aux Bleus

Le demi de mêlée du Stade Toulousain Naoto Saito sera titulaire avec le Japon face aux Bleus, samedi. (Photo by Koki Nagahama/Getty Images)

La Japan Rugby Football Union (JRFU) a dévoilé ce jeudi matin la composition de son équipe qui affrontera la France, samedi soir au stade de France.

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Largement dominé il y a deux semaines par la Nouvelle-Zélande sur ses terres (19-64 le 26 octobre), le Japon aborde sa tournée européenne par un match au Stade de France, face aux Bleus.

Le sélectionneur Eddie Jones a annoncé les 23 joueurs retenus pour cet événement, et il a effectué pas mal de changements par rapport à l’équipe battue par les All Blacks.

On peut notamment noter la titularisation du demi de mêlée du Stade Toulousain Naoto Saito, aligné à la charnière aux côtés du capitaine Harumichi Tatekawa.

Le joueur de l’Union-Bordeaux Tevita Tatafu débutera la rencontre sur le banc, l’ancien boss de l’Australie et de l’Angleterre lui ayant préféré Faulua Makisi en N.8.

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La dernière visite des Brave Blossoms en France s’était soldée par un exploit des Japonais, qui avaient tenu les Bleus en échec (

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XV de départ : Tuitama – Naikabula, Riley, Fifita, Osada – (o) Tatekawa (cap.), (m) Saito – Himeno, Makisi, Shimokawa – Dearns, Uluiviti – Takeuchi, Harada, Okabe.

Remplaçants : Matsuoka, Morikawa, Tamefusa, Fakatava, Tatafu, Fujiwara, Kajimura, Matsunaga.

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Tom 1 hour ago
Borthwick, it's time to own up – Andy Goode

The problem for me isn't the pragmatic playstyle, it's that there is no attacking gameplan whatsoever.


I've got no issue with a methodical, kick heavy, defense centric gameplan. That playstyle won England our only world cup and it's won SA 4 of them. However! You can play in a pragmatic manner but you have to still play heads-up rugby and have the ability to turn it on when you manufacture prime attacking situations. England work very hard to get in the right areas of the pitch and have no idea how to convert when they get there, hence we tried and missed 3 drop goals as we were completely impotent in the 22. I've not seen any improvement in our attack in the last 4-5 years. The only time we got close to the tryline was from an interception, it's embarrassing. I don't know what Richard Wigglesworth is getting paid for.


I agree that England should have found a way to close out that game. Being able to grind out tough games is critical but I'd argue that being unable to string more than a couple of passes together without dropping it and finding a way to get over the gainline is even more important... But frustratingly, they don't seem interested. All you hear is about how close we are to bring a great team, we just need to execute a bit better. I don't see it. I see a team who are very physical, very pragmatic who do some stuff really well and are useless with the ball in hand which adds up to a very average side. They need to stop focusing on getting 5% better at the stuff we're already at an 8/10 level and focus on getting a lot better at the stuff we're doing at a 2/10 level. We have the worst attack of pretty much any side in the world... Argentina, Scotland, Fiji are way more threatening.

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