France v England: To spur themselves on, the English revisit last year’s thrashing at Twickenham.

It was a day ago, almost the day. Blues Stunned danced at Twickenham, Stringing articles like pearls England Anguish and so on Humiliated than ever before (10-53). During this pause, The Huge success Never got by the Blues against their hated neighbours, but the XV in its London den was the heaviest defeat in De La Rose’s history.

Then the water flowed under the bridge 6 Nations Tournament 2023, England repeated the cherry with an unexpected third-place finish at the World Cup, the same World Cup quarter-final in which Fabian Caldi’s men fell brutally from their pedestal on an October evening at the Stade de France. But make no mistake, the memories remain.

At the heart of this week’s crunch is the French side Charles Oliver “The British have not forgotten this match, and neither have we,” he declared. The English Hooker Jamie George He proved him right and revealed BBC He and his teammates rewatched images of the competition to motivate themselves better.

“One of the darkest days of my career”

“We saw him again in a week. We would have been stupid not to. It was one of the darkest days of my career and certainly not English rugby. We were below our standards and when you’re so bad against a team like France, you deserve to lose like that. »

English coach Steve BorthwickQuoted Guardian, to better exorcise the shock, called for a free discussion with the whole group on the matter throughout the week. “We were far from the best teams in the world that day. I often talk about learning, and the team tried to continue to learn from this moment and every experience. »

Whether we like it or not, it will float into the Groupama Stadium in Lyon on Saturday A wind of vengeance For a nation seeking to atone for the “shame of the century”, it is sometimes delivered across the Channel. A first win on French soil since 2016 would be a great way to achieve this. XV of the Rose In reconstruction to lay a good foundation for a new era.

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