Cardiff, United Kingdom: France plays Wales in a Six Nations Test match in Cardiff on Friday on the back of their best winning streak since 2006 (six) in search of a first title since 2010.
Unbeaten in the championship after the opening three games, the French are seeking a win over the Welsh to set up a potential Grand Slam game against England on March 19.
AFP Sports looks at three key head-to-heads going into the Test at the Principality Stadium:
Dupont/Ntamack v Tomos Williams/Biggar
Antoine Dupont has become an emblematic figure in French rugby.
The scrumhalf skippers the side and has been pivotal to its success. A hard-hitting busybody in defense, the Toulouse player has also shone in heads-up attacking rugby alongside club teammate Romain Ntamack. “Dupont has a huge influence,” Dan Biggar says.
“His partnership with Ntamack has flourished and they’;re in good form. They’re going to be huge danger men.”
Biggar has stepped into the Wales captaincy boots left empty by the injury to Alun Wyn Jones. The fly-half has thrived since moving out of Wales to ply his club trade at Northampton, silencing the numerous critics who have routinely taken umbrage at what they see as a style of play too defensive for a country famed in the 1970s for its mythical “fly-half factory”.
Biggar has linked up well with Tomos Williams, who has proved a real livewire at scrum-half, but will have his hands well and truly full dealing with Dupont.
