La Rochelle centre has returned to training this week but is not fully recovered for the first game
against New Zealand on Friday without their influential midfielder Jonathan Danty. The La Rochelle centre has returned to training this week but has not yet fully recovered from a hamstring strain and will be replaced in the starting line-up by Yoram Moefana.
The rest of the starting XV has a largely familiar look but injuries to regulars such as Paul Willemse, Romain Ntamack and Cyril Baille have required the head coach, Fabien Galthié, to reshuffle his resources slightly. Cameron Woki will start in the second row alongside Thierry Flament, Reda Wardi replaces Baille at loosehead prop and Matthieu Jalibert retains the vacant No 10 jersey.
Dupont is also wary of the threat the All Blacks, who thrashed Les Bleus 62-13 in the 2015 World Cup quarter-finals, pose. “The whole game will be tough. They have very few weaknesses, they’re consistent and also have this capacity to swing the momentum of a test. Now we have a responsibility to achieve something great,” he said.
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