France 40-25 New Zealand: Hosts beat All Blacks for first time since 2009



Damian Penaud's try sealed the victory for France.

France: 40

Pens: Jaminet 4 Cons: Jaminet 4

New Zealand: 25.

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France beat the All Blacks in Paris for the first time in five years.

The first half saw two tries from Peato and Romain Ntamack.

The All Blacks fought back from a two point deficit with 20 minutes remaining.

Damian Penaud's intercept try sealed a historic win for the hosts.

France will play New Zealand in the opening game of the World Cup in Paris, where they have not beaten the All Blacks in over 40 years.

New Zealand will have bad memories of the venue after suffering back-to-back defeats for the second time in a decade.

The visitors looked set for a comeback when Jordie Barrett went over in the left corner after 46 minutes, and Rieko Ioane crossed four minutes later.

Ardie Savea scored a third try for the visitors, which cut the deficit to two points, but France's full-back Melvyn Jaminet kicked a penalty and a conversion to extend their lead.

France were reborn once more as Ntamack ran the ball out from behind his own try-line.

Savea was sin-binned as a result of the move. New Zealand had suffered a rare two defeats in a row after Jaminet claimed the three points.

Gregory Alldritt told Amazon Prime that it was a wonderful night.

It was the first game for a lot of us. It was a dream of ours. We played with everything we had.

Line-ups.

France has Jaminet, Penaud, Fickou, Danty, Villiere, Ntamack, and Baille.

Replacements: Barlot, Gros, Bamba, R. Taofifenua, Flament, Cretin, Lucu, Jalibert.

New Zealand: Jordan, R. Ioane, Tupaea, Bridge, Mo'unga, Smith, Moody, Laulala, Retallick, Whitelock, A. Ioane, Cane, Savea.

Replacements: Taukeiaho, Tu'ungafasi, Vaa'i, Frizzel, Weber, and Havili.

The referee is Wayne Barnes.