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Damian Penaud’s late strive provides France a hard-fought victory towards a group that managed to handle scrum-half Antoine Dupont completely, however the winger’s run for his ninth strive within the final 11 video games was sufficient for the hosts.

Some late magic from Damian Penaud allowed France to seal a last-gasp 30-29 victory towards Australia of their Autumn Nations Sequence conflict on the Stade de France.

The Wallabies’ Lalakai Foketi scored a sensational try to Jock Campbell added one other with Bernard Foley kicking the remainder of the factors for the guests, who did an incredible job of conserving fickle French scrum-half Antoine Dupont at bay.

Fabien Galthie’s flank tore by means of the sport and winger Penaud scored a stunning late winner so as to add to Julien Marchand’s strive, whereas Thomas Ramos’ metronomic boot secured his different factors.

France, which faces South Africa in Marseille subsequent Saturday, improved on its file for consecutive wins courting again to the Thirties.

“We had been enjoying for a file that dates again to the Thirties. Successful 11 video games in a row in trendy rugby isn’t any small factor and I am happy with the gamers as a result of they tried,” mentioned head coach Galthie.

“We knew that two weeks of labor couldn’t make up for all these months with out being collectively, particularly towards a group that has been enjoying rather a lot collectively these days.

“It was a really powerful match however we knew it might be tight. I am very happy with the blokes, they by no means gave up.”

Foley put the guests forward with an early penalty as Australia began strongly, just for Ramos to nullify the lead with a 30-metre penalty after which give Les Bleus the lead with a 48-metre strike.

Following Foley’s second penalty, France scored by means of Charles Ollivon, however the strive was disallowed for a double transfer. Minutes later, Australia successfully scored the primary down on the finish of a whirlwind counter-attack, Foketi diving after receiving a go from Tom Wright contained in the French 22.

France went on a run of dominance and had been rewarded with two Ramos penalties, however for the primary time in 4 years the hosts confronted the prospect of falling behind at half-time on the Stade de France.

Nevertheless, Marchand scored an important stoppage-time strive from a robust ruck and Ramos added the additional factors to present France a six-point lead on the interval at 19-13.

Foley and Ramos traded penalties early within the second half, however Australia struck the primary blow when Campbell went down after some positive group play earlier than Foley transformed to present the Wallabies a one-point lead and contemporary momentum.

Foley kicked once more for the three factors earlier than Ramos did too and, with 5 minutes remaining, Hodge added one other penalty to go away France with a scoring try for a win that appeared elusive.

Penaud was fast to beat two tackles and land with 4 minutes left to present his group one other confidence increase a yr earlier than the World Cup on dwelling soil.

Australia scrum-half Nic White mentioned: “Unbelievable strive on the finish. We’ll take some studying however the preliminary feeling is that we’re gutted.

“We’ll check out the final 10 minutes. With out going into an excessive amount of element, there’s one thing we’ll be taught. We had some positives and we received it proper. We really feel like we in all probability ought to have gained it.”

Australia beat Scotland 16-15 at Murrayfield final Saturday after the hosts missed a last-minute penalty, however this time the Wallabies had been on the fallacious finish of a decent match.

“Although we did not get the end result, we put in two performances in a row. We put in efficiency and we’ll take the positives out of that,” White added.