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France win at home against a determined Scotland
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/SZg9FAgpzyI/AAAAAAAACyE/BnxJuWS9_5U/s1600-h/france-scotland-09.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/SZg9FAgpzyI/AAAAAAAACyE/BnxJuWS9_5U/s400/france-scotland-09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303055717474357026" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"Flanker Fulgence Ouedraogo's second-half try and five penalties by flyhalf Lionel Beauxis gave a sluggish France a 22-13 victory over Scotland at the Stade de France on Saturday./spanbr /br /Scotland held their own in the first half and winger Thom Evans added to two earlier Phil Godman penalties with a try ten minutes from time but the visitors never seriously threatened to beat the home side.br /br /France coach Marc Lievremont, who said before the match that a loss would be a "humiliation", was disappointed by a series of French errors and a failure to break down a determined Scottish defence more decisively.br /br /"There was a lack of precision, too many mistakes," he told a news conference. "I had been hoping for a nice evening, spending Saint Valentine's with my wife but I think I'm going to have to be getting in a video session to see what went wrong."br /br /Scotland captain and scrumhalf Mike Blair said the team had battled well in the face of a lopsided 7-3 penalty count.br /br /"There were things that went against us and we were still right in the game against a good French side," he said.br /br /centerobject width="400" height="280"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TgAS8re7_K0amp;hl=enamp;fs=1"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TgAS8re7_K0amp;hl=enamp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="280"/embed/object/centerbr /span style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-weight: bold;"Time:/span 03:44/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"www.rugbydump.com/divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/rugbydump?a=ADGpBw.Q"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/rugbydump?i=ADGpBw.Q" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/540391131" height="1" width="1"/ More...
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