Mission accomplished, but Laporte insists France can get better

FRANCE coach Bernard Laporte saw his side maintain the only unblemished RBS Six Nations record in Cardiff yesterday and claimed they can get better.

Mission accomplished, but Laporte insists France can get better

Wales 22 France 29

The French lead the championship following their 29-22 victory against Wales in Cardiff which gave them three victories out of three. However, Laporte said: "The objective was to win today and that is what we have done. We knew it was not going to be easy as we saw in the World Cup that Wales are a good team as they caused England and New Zealand problems. I would say that 95% of our game today was positive but everything is not perfect. We gave away some ball in the lineout and we did not make the most of all the opportunities we created against Wales.

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