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France is in mourning, waking up on Monday to the realisation that it was not all a nightmare – Les Bleus are out of the Rugby World Cup.
‘A Pleurer’ was splashed across the front page of L’Equipe – meaning ‘To Cry’ – as the national press attempted to piece together what went wrong for France in their quarter-final defeat by South Africa in Paris.
“The return of Antoine Dupont, flamboyant again, was not enough. The Blues lost by one point and will not win their World Cup. It is the Springboks who will face the English, winners of the Fijians, in the semi-finals,” wrote L’Equipe.
Le Figaro hailed the efforts of Peato Mauvaka and Matthieu Jalibert, two of France’s star players, while lamenting that their performances were in vain.
“A monstrous match!” was how they described Mauvaka’s play. They also described South Africa’s precision in attack as “surgical”, noting the Springboks’ “art of blocking and footwork” and how they responded to trailing on the scoreboard with “composure and success”.
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