Lievremont marks down French display

MARC LIEVREMONT may have been pleased with the outcome of yesterday’s Six Nations clash at the Aviva Stadium, but he marked down the French performance with just four marks out of 10.

The French coach said there were disciplinary and technical problems and issues of impatience made which made yesterday’s game a stress-filled one, and he’s looking for a huge level of improvement before the next game, away to high flying England.

“We suffered physically, we lost our vision and discipline at very important moments; Ireland scored too many tries against us and managed to put us under pressure throughout the 80 minutes. At no stage of the game did we feel it was won and we needed to be more patient to find solutions to the problems.”