a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/SjNvtVRH0YI/AAAAAAAADHA/xqDnuoh3_DU/s1600-h/trinh-duc-france.jpg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/SjNvtVRH0YI/AAAAAAAADHA/xqDnuoh3_DU/s400/trinh-duc-france.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346740007212667266" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"France put in a massive defensive effort and capitalised on opposition mistakes as they beat New Zealand 27-22 at Carisbrook in Dunedin in the first of their two Tests./spanbr /br /The home side made costly errors that resulted in France punishing them The All Blacks were guilty of putting in a rare poor defensive showing at times, as Francois Trinh-Duc proved for the first try as he broke through numerous tackles and powered over.br /br /Hooker William Servat crashed over a little later, and France had a 17-3 lead which put them in a commanding position. A spirited fightback by New Zealand followed though, starting with a Liam Messam try on the stroke of halftime.br /br /The hosts got the scores up to 17-17, but as they struggled to break the stubborn French defensive line, the returning Luke McAlister forced a pass which was intercepted by Maxime Medard.br /br /It was the final nail in the coffin, and despite a late Ma'a Nonu try, France held on to record a famous win in New Zealand.br /br /Speaking ahead of the match, captain Thierry Dusautoir said: "They are a mythical team - to beat the All Blacks it's always the pinnacle of a player's career, especially in New Zealand because very few French teams have done that."br /br /centerobject height="288" width="350"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qSFXxivsoMgamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qSFXxivsoMgamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="350"/embed/object/centerbr /span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:85%;" span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"Note: /spanWe'll try get better/longer highlights for you soon. /spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-4486008684787716366?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com'//divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=OBX6IzVwzaY:ujh21soHVSQ:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/OBX6IzVwzaY" height="1" width="1"/ More...