All Blacks: Scott Robertson set to include FOUR uncapped players for first France Test but \u2018Ma\u2019a Nonu on steroids\u2019 could miss out<\/b><\/a><\/p>\nAlthough France will be without the bulk of their best players, Galthie has selected most of France\u2019s golden U20 generation, which has seen them win three of the past four World Championships at that age group.<\/p>\n
France have won their last three Tests against New Zealand, which were all played in Paris. Vito believes that due to their impressive recent record, Galthie\u2019s troops will still fancy their chances when they face the All Blacks in the upcoming series.<\/p>\n
France have \u2018changed over the last five or six years\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely changed over the last five or six years,\u201d Vito told Sport Nation\u2019s Scotty & Izzy. \u201cAll the success that they have had in their U20s, it\u2019s filtered through into these guys that they have there now.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey just aren\u2019t scared anymore of the All Blacks. They used to be\u2026 and they\u2019d always build it up to be a massive game. This new generation, they\u2019re coming in and they just don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n
New Zealand and France have faced each other in 64 Tests with the All Blacks winning 48, Les Bleus 15 and there has been one draw.<\/p>\n
New Zealand\u2019s last triumph was registered in 2018, however, when they sealed a 3-0 series victory on home soil after beating France in Tests in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin.<\/p>\n
Vito, who played in 33 Tests for New Zealand, believes France\u2019s current crop of inexperienced players make them a dangerous adversary for the All Blacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe think they are young and inexperienced looking to get a hiding, but they are coming to win. That\u2019s a dangerous beast.\u201d<\/p>\n
READ MORE:<\/b> All Blacks key weakness exposed as French legend makes major claim about current generation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although France will be without several of their first choice players when they take on the All Blacks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,225,90462,704,12,91178],"class_list":{"0":"post-232411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-home-page","12":"tag-internationals","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-victor-vito"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114784540013231391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}