By NICK VERDIER
FRANCE have finally won away from home in the Six Nations and it came on the back of their best attacking performance under Guy Noves.
Desperate to avoid dropping to ninth in the World Rugby standings and face a potential ‘pool of death’ at the 2019 World Cup, France, who hadn’t won outside of Paris in their last five Championship games, were under pressure to do so and it showed with a shaky start to the game. Italy were looking to build on a solid performance at Twickenham two weeks ago, as controversial as it was, and scored an early Sergio Parisse try a...
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