France vs England match report: Late flurry from Danny Cipriani and Jonathan ... - The Independent
The second of England’s three World Cup warm-up friendlies was heading only one way, and in very painful fashion, until a flurry of two tries by Danny Cipriani and Jonathan Joseph in the last nine minutes suggested at least that the long summer’s... It was not enough to rescue the result, though, as mistakes and mishaps had given France too big an advantage to be reined in. An England team broadly similar to this one put seven tries and 55 points on France last March. last night they were at full stretch just to eke six points out a dismal, shockingly uncoordinated first half. After three minutes, Luther Burrell – whose performance was under the microscope given all the conjecture over the centres for the World Cup – put in a hearteningly slam of a tackle on the counter-attacking full-back Scott Spedding but Burrell was... France’s recalled, 32-year-old fly-half Freddy Michalak sent two kicks through the posts and a severely sloppy first 20 minutes bottomed out for England with a crooked feed from Ben Youngs. Source: www.independent.co.uk
