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L'Angleterre encore en rodage contre l'Italie

YORK, ANGLETERRE - 23 MARS : Emily Scarratt marque le deuxième essai de son équipe lors du match du Tournoi des Six Nations 2025 entre l'Angleterre et l'Italie au LNER Community Stadium le 23 mars 2025 à York, Angleterre. (Photo David Rogers/Getty Images)

Les Red Roses, sextuples tenantes du titre, ont attaqué le Tournoi des Six Nations 2025 par une victoire en demi-teinte contre l’Italie.

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Grande favorite du Tournoi des Six Nations et de la Coupe du Monde qui aura lieu à la fin de l’été, l’Angleterre a lancé son année 2025 par une large victoire contre l’Italie, à York (38-5).

Mais au-delà du score sec, l’impression laissée par la Red Roses est mitigée, tant elles dominent le rugby mondial depuis une paire d’années. Face à des Italiennes accrocheuses, mais largement inférieures en termes de gabarit, d’expérience et de culture rugby, les Anglaises ont été incapables d’inscrire le moindre point entre la 38e et la 78e minute.

Les occasions n’ont pourtant pas manqué : 12 franchissements, 263 mètres parcourus après contact, 100% de réussite en conquête… Mais il y a aussi eu beaucoup de déchets, à l’image des 13 pénalités concédées, des 15 turnovers ou de choix discutables qui feront sans doute l’objet d’un débrief salé avec John Mitchell, le sélectionneur.

30e victoire de suite dans le Tournoi pour l’Angleterre

Mais les Anglaises ont tellement de marge sur la concurrence qu’elles ont quand même inscrit six essais pour engranger un 30e succès de suite dans la compétition. Souvent en se basant sur la puissance de leurs avants, soit directement (essai de pénalité sur ballon porté, 21e), ou alors en pilonnant au ras avant d’ouvrir grand côté (Venner 3e, McDonald 28e, Sing 78e).

Avec le bonus offensif assuré avant même la demi-heure de jeu, les Red Roses ont-elles inconsciemment levé le pied ? C’est une possibilité à laquelle elles ne nous ont pas habitués. Sur le Tournoi 2024 par exemple, elles ont systématiquement passé la barre des 40 points, quel que soit l’adversaire en face, et avaient notamment battu l’Italie 48-0 à Parme.

Ce coup-ci, les Azzurre ne rentreront pas bredouilles grâce à un ballon porté bien négocié et conclu par Francesca Sgorbini. Pas de quoi s’approcher d’un premier succès italien contre l’Angleterre (19 défaites désormais), mais peut-être de quoi donner quelques idées aux adversaires des sextuples tenantes du titre, l’équipe de France en tête…

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Flankly 1 hour ago
Late Makazole Mapimpi try earns the Sharks win away to Edinburgh

Jake White described this as the strongest Sharks lineup ever. There is no doubt that it is at least an impressive roster. They did win, which is obviously an achievement against a good Edinburgh side. However …


For much of the first half Edinburgh seemed easily able to create 2 on 1 opportunities on both wings, with the defensive wingers biting in on the inside runner and cover defence being AWOL. Conversely the Sharks showed little ability to get behind the Edinburgh defensive line, with the sole exception of a nicely-exploited Am mismatch against a second row (which led to the Fassi try).


In general the Sharks, with their full complement of Bok firepower, do not look that dangerous in attack, and while tackling was good on the whole and goal line defence was impressive at times, they were exhibiting surprising breakdowns in open play defensive structures.


Also, the Sharks continue to be inaccurate, with material impact on the scoreboard. Missing two very kickable penalties is not the way to be the best. It looked to me like the Sharks contestable kicks were not well enough executed, and were too hard to recover.


Not sure what the running attack was trying to do, but my guess is that they were trying to pull off a Harlequins-style bash-and-offload game off of 12 (Esterhuizen). That’s not a terrible idea with the personnel available, but it would require creativity and a precision on second phase that was not in evidence.


Lastly, you have to have better discipline. It’s great that the team can cope with a 13 vs 14 period (of almost 10 minutes), but smart teams a avoid cards.


Having said that it was great to see the win. I thought that Edinburgh were cynical and niggly. Always hanging around on the wrong side of the breakdown, lots of intentional obstruction, illegal dummying at the base of the ruck, etc. They played a dirty game and the ref tolerated it. Always good to see that not succeed.


Overall the “best Sharks lineup ever” scraped the win, but under-performed their Bok-laden potential. Again.

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