{"id":318202,"date":"2025-11-30T08:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T08:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318202\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T08:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T08:34:12","slug":"france-make-svns-series-history-with-record-breaking-win-over-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/318202\/","title":{"rendered":"France make SVNS Series history with record-breaking win over Argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

France<\/a> delivered one of the most dominant performances ever seen on the HSBC SVNS Series, smashing Argentina<\/a> by a record margin at the Dubai Sevens \u2013 winning 59-7 in a dramatically one-sided pool stage clash on Saturday.<\/p>\n

After starting the 2025\/26 SVNS Series with an agonising three-point defeat to reigning world champions South Africa, France looked to bounce back against Argentina, who are the two-time defending League Winners on the circuit.<\/p>\n

Los Pumas<\/a> Sevens were defeated 26-19 by Fiji<\/a> in the opening match of their campaign, making their second fixture a must-win. With a new competition format sending the top two teams from each pool to the semis, Argentina needed a positive result to keep their title hopes alive.<\/p>\n

Jordan Sepho and Celian Pouzelgues crossed for early tries as France took a 12-0 lead, before the Argentinians hit back through Santiago Vera Feld in the fourth minute. It had been a one-score game deep in the first half, but Les Bleus Sevens took control almost in a flash.<\/p>\n

Sepho completed a double before Antoine Zeghdar<\/a> added to France\u2019s lead, as the Paris Olympics gold medallists took a commanding 19-point advantage into the break. Sepho made it a hat-trick of tries with a ninth-minute effort, as France truly took over in record-breaking fashion.<\/p>\n

Andy Timo scored two tries, before Ali Dabo completed the one-sided victory with a swan dive in the final play of the match. Enahemo Artaud took a tap before passing the ball onto the try-scorer, who strolled through a gap in Argentina\u2019s defensive line.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a good way to punctate this performance which has been outstanding from France. It is a record score, the most points France haver ever scored against Argentina in HSBC SVNS by some margin,\u201d commentator Rupert Cox said after Dabo\u2019s try.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fifth time in history Argentina have conceded 50-plus points in a game, 59 to France, Argentina [with] just the seven. Another game to play for France against Fiji.\u201d<\/p>\n

France secured their place in the semi-finals with a hard-earned 24-19 triumph over Fiji, who are also through to the final four. Josselin Bouhier<\/a> scored France\u2019s final try of the match, with Fiji running out of time in a valiant comeback effort.<\/p>\n

Argentina returned to winning ways 19-14 against South Africa. Marcos Moneta<\/a> got the try-scoring party started with an early effort, before Santiago Mare<\/a> and Juan Patricio Batac made their mark on the scoreboard later in the contest.<\/p>\n

With New Zealand<\/a> and Australia<\/a> doing enough to progress out of Pool B, the semi-finals were confirmed before day two. France and Australia would do battle in the first men\u2019s semi, while the All Blacks<\/a> Sevens were matched up with traditional sevens rival Fiji.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually didn\u2019t watch the last bit of that game,\u201d\u00a0All Blacks Sevens representative Rob Rush<\/a>\u00a0said after the team\u2019s thrilling win over Australia on day one.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually had my head down. I was just saying, \u2018I trust the boys, I trust the boys\u2019. I should have said, \u2018I trust the TMO, I trust the TMO\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was good that the boys could finish real hearty like that. It was mean.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France delivered one of the most dominant performances ever seen on the HSBC SVNS Series, smashing Argentina by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-318202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}