Rugby - Test - matches : Blues: Mazars takes his chance.

Unsuccessful in the original group for the summer tour , the center of Bayonne Lionel Mazars begins on the last test against theArgentina Saturday ( 8:40 p.m. ) . A total of seven changes were made in the starting XV from the team that was heavily tilted in South Africa.

This is not a big laundry , but it looks like strongly. Compared with a spanking of Cape Town ( 45-17 , Ed) , the technical staff of the XV France has made seven changes ! Clement Poitrenaud, David Marty, Maxime Mermoz, Aurelien Rougerie, Romain Millo - Chluski and Thomas Domingo, Tried by a weary season extension , are outside the starting XV . As the flanker biarrot Wenceslas Lauret , which would probably began at Velez Sarsfield , he was forced to withdraw due to a shoulder injury . " We have chosen to give the palm to the freshness, says national coach Marc Lievremont. Some players really seemed worn. But this absolutely does not undermine their excellent season in club or national team . "

First selection Porical:
The pair of centers Florian Fritz- Lionel Mazars , judged performance against Argentina A last Friday in La Plata , is extended at the expense of the Catalan Association Mermoz - Marty, who pays a poor game against the Springboks. More than Fritz, Mazars is the Bayonne seems to have scored points against the Pumas on Friday night reservists . Author of an assist and several breakthroughs masterful , former resident of France Did he landed with the Blues last week to the bearing package Mathieu Bastareaud- Proves that his great season with the Rowing owed nothing to chance . The chef's surprise , however, concerns the appointment of the back of the USAP and executioner of Toulouse during the last semifinal of the Top 14 Jerome Porical. It will celebrate in Buenos Aires , on Saturday , his first selection with the XV of France , heard here that the match against Argentina A does not count as a course . "It was very good last Friday, Emile Ntamack analysis . It was very safe in defense, under the high balls clean and precise on its raises. There is nothing wrong , this match was very encouraging for him. "

Ten out of ten for Trinh-Duc:
However , the coach decided to keep some bases including a hinge composed of Morgan Parra and François Trinh - Duc. No matter falling into the French disease in previous years by changing opener cons to each performance. Their partnership was renewed for the seventh consecutive (except the meeting of last week) and the number ten Montpellier begin his tenth consecutive game in blue . A gesture of Marc Lievremont proving that he has now decided to fit them for the next World Cup. For them to prove they deserve that trust , after hesitating delivery in Cape Town .
Team : Porical ; Clerc , Mazars , Fritz , Malzieu ; (o ) Trinh -Duc ( m ) Parra , Bonnaire, Picamoles , Dusautoir (capt) , Nallet , Pape , Mas , Szarzewski Barcella .
Alternates: Guirado , Poux , Peter , Lamboley , Yachvili, Skrela , Rougerie .