Full Time
80:00
5:30am Tue October 18, 2022
Pool Matches - Week 1 - Eco-Power Stadium, Doncaster - Crowd: 4182
80min

Conversion: Greece
Kicked by Lachlan Ilias.

Ilias from the left sideline converts on fulltime

France lead France 34 - 12 Greece
78min

Try: Greece
Scored by Nick Mougios. Kick to come.

Ilias inside his own half, chips over to the left wing where Mougios takes it on the full, he then turns the retreating Escare inside out and upside down before racing away to score a spectacular try.

France lead France 34 - 10 Greece
76min

SCRUM GREECE - 10m inside the French half

76min

And on the first tackle, France turn it over.

76min

France challenge again and are successful again. Greece found to have knocked on first

76min

Conversion: France
Kicked by Arthur Mourgue.

Mourgue from wide on the left side and he converts.

France lead France 34 - 6 Greece
75min

Try: France
Scored by Benjamin Jullien. Kick to come.

Jullien running wider of the ruck gets outside the defence and scores in the right corner

France lead France 32 - 6 Greece
75min

PENALTY FRANCE - first tackle and Greece with another illegal strip. France find touch again, now 20m from the Greece line

74min

PENALTY FRANCE - illegal strip. France withg a full set 10m inside the Greece half

74min

CHALLENGE - Yaha ruled to have lost the ball. The director says its a successful challenge - illegal strip.

72min

Greece with quick short passing on the left side but Mougios loses it forward.

71min

PENALTY GREECE - Le Cam ran behind his own team mates as he came back infield.

70min

SCRUM FRANCE - Mamouzelos fumbles the ball at dummy half on the second tackle.

69min

SCRUM GREECE - Mitsias loses the ball in a 1-on-1 strip by Yaha, but the French winger loses the ball forward on halfway.

66min

Penalty Goal: France
Kicked by Arthur Mourgue.

Mourgue lands his 6th goal for the night

France lead France 28 - 6 Greece
66min

PENALTY FRANCE - An illegal strip and France have decided to take the 2

65min

PENALTY FRANCE - Mitsias tested again, he loses the ball forward and Mougios grabs it in an offside position.

63min

France forced to make another drop out

61min

Taukamo makes a break down the left wing, runs 30m over halfway, kicks downfield and Escare taps the ball dead. France drop out.

59min

Mitsias tested again under the high ball, this time Yaha wins, offloads to Langi who looked certain to score but the Greek defence denies him.

57min

Conversion: Greece
Kicked by Lachlan Ilias.

Ilias from wide on the left side converts

France lead France 26 - 6 Greece
56min

Try: Greece
Scored by Siteni Taukamo. Kick to come.

Meads grubbers to the left wing to an unmarked Taukamo. The ball bounces up perfectly and Taukamo regathers and dives over to score in the corner.

France lead France 26 - 4 Greece
55min

Third tackle for France, 10m from halfway and Gigot just randomly kicks for nobody and it goes out on the full.

54min

Tuliatu with a stunning offload but Magoulias couldn't quite hang onto it

54min

PENALTY GREECE - Romano with a high tackle

53min

Langi with a knock on in the Greece ingoal and a try goes begging.

52min

PENALTY FRANCE - Magoulias with a high tackle

51min

Greece very nearly scores but Taukamo knocks on in the contest to take the bomb

50min

PENALTY GREECE - France defensive line offside

50min

Mitsias challenged under the high ball again and he is faultless again

48min

Conversion: France
Kicked by Arthur Mourgue.

Mourgue converts

France lead France 26 - 0 Greece
47min

Try: France
Scored by Arthur Mourgue. Kick to come.

Laguerre finds big space in front of him, which he runs through before linking with Goudemand who quickly got the ball along to Mourgue, who got the try under the posts despite a determined try saving effort by Mamouzelos.

France lead France 24 - 0 Greece
46min

Ilias finds space with his kick, but the ball rolls dead ingoal. France with a 20m restart.

44min

Mourgue kicks for touch and Robinson decides to let it do just that.

43min

Magoulias drops the crash ball on the first tackle.

43min

PENALTY GREECE - They take a tap 15m from the French line

42min

SCRUM GREECE - Yaha just got hit by a Mitsias being driven by a tank! Damn what a hit and it was legal and brought about a knock on

40min

Greece gets the second half underway

39min

Mitsias does enough to deflect a last pass to make it go into touch instead of end up in Yaha's hands and he's saved a possible try on halftime.

39min

France with another full set in the Greek half

38min

Mourgue offloads and Magoulias cleans it up. Greece then kicks on the first and Mitsias very nearly cleans the ball up.

37min

Set restart France - on halfway.

36min

Escare drops the kick backwards, but cleans up as there's no kick pressure.

35min

Conversion: France
Kicked by Arthur Mourgue.

Mourgue with his toughest attempt so far today, about 7.25 metres off centre. He handles the difficult angle well and adds the extras.

France lead France 20 - 0 Greece
35min

Try: France
Scored by Benjamin Jullien. Kick to come.

Another crash ball play on the Greece line , this time to the left of the posts and Jullien runs between two defenders to score a soft try.

France lead France 18 - 0 Greece
34min

PENALTY FRANCE - Zampetides tackles Mourgue in the air after he's kicked the ball

33min

Zampetides got his foot caught underneath him as he makes a tackle. He's walking it off.

32min

Set restart for Greece, 5m shy of halfway

30min

Conversion: France
Kicked by Arthur Mourgue.

Mourgue converts from almost in front

France lead France 14 - 0 Greece
30min

Try: France
Scored by Tony Gigot. Kick to come.

Going to the refereee director. Gee awards a try to France. Mourgue grubbers, Sell fails to clean up the ball in the Greece ingoal, Gigot then stretches out and grounds the ball for a try.

France lead France 12 - 0 Greece
28min

PENALTY FRANCE - an expansive and creative set for Greece ends with Mitsias taking out Yaha on a kick chase

27min

Gigot kicks for touch and finds it 3 metres from the Greece line

25min

Sangare tries to offload but he turns the ball over on halfway

24min

Penalty Goal: France
Kicked by Arthur Mourgue.

Mourgue adds another deux

France lead France 8 - 0 Greece
23min

PENALTY FRANCE - The French opt to take the 2

22min

Mamouzelos receives a late offload and runs to the retreating French line then grubbers for himself but falls over.

19min

Ilias fires a long ball to Mitsias' forehead...if Mitsias stood at 7 foot tall. Ball goes into touch

17min

PENALTY GREECE - Dezaria obstructs the Greece kick chase, 15m from the French line. Greece takes the tap.

16min

Fast restart by Greece and they get a set restart on halfway

16min

Gigot's kick is comfortably taken in goal. 20m restart and 7 tackles.

16min

Yaha with a break down the left sideline but Ilias makes a great cover tackle and very nearly takes him into touch on halfway

14min

PENALTY GREECE - Gigot kicks for Yaha who clumsily knocks Taukamo down in the air.

13min

France with a set restart on the 2nd tackle. Now 5m into the Greek half on the first tackle.

12min

Ilias runs it on the last 10m from the French line and is comfortably tackled. Disappointing end to the set.

11min

SCRUM GREECE - Escare loses the ball 35m from his own line

9min

Conversion: France
Kicked by Arthur Mourgue.

Mourgue from almost in front, adds the extras.

France lead France 6 - 0 Greece
8min

Try: France
Scored by Jordan Dezaria. Kick to come.

Dezaria takes a crash ball, runs on a slight angle to get between two goal line defenders, barges between them and scores besides the posts

France lead France 4 - 0 Greece
6min

Ilias kicks on the 3rd inside his own 20 and very nearly gets a 20/40.

5min

Ilias makes a break but is grassed on halfway after a pretty average set by Greece at that point.

4min

Gigot's kick finds Langi, but he can't take it cleanly and he loses it forward into the Greek ingoal.

3min

France making big metres through the middle

3min

Greece's second set was much stronger

2min

Gigot kicks for his winger but it's overshot the pitch and goes out on the full, 25m from the Greece line

1min

France very strong defensively in the opening set

Adam Gee gets us started and France kick off

The teams are coming onto the field now

Referees & scorers:

Referee: Adam Gee

Touch Judges: Kasey Badger, James Vella

Video Referee: Chris Kendall

FRANCE MEN (34)
Tries: Jordan Dezaria, Arthur Mourgue, Tony Gigot, Benjamin Jullien (2)
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Arthur Mourgue (5/5)
Penalty Goals: Arthur Mourgue (2/2)

GREECE MEN (12)
Tries: Siteni Taukamo, Nick Mougios
Field Goals:
Two Point Field Goals:
Conversions: Lachlan Ilias (2/2)
Penalty Goals: