46-19 defeat by Ireland<\/a> last Saturday.<\/p>\nDefeat marks a historic low for the Wallabies, who had not lost 10 Tests in a calendar year before.<\/p>\n
It means coach Joe Schmidt, who will depart after July’s Nations Championship, now has a win percentage of under 40%.<\/p>\n
The Wallabies, who will host the 2027 World Cup, struck first through Matt Faessler following a Len Ikitau run, but France swiftly hit back as Louis Bielle-Biarrey set up Nicolas Depoortere.<\/p>\n
Angus Bell restored the visitors’ lead, but tries from Thomas Ramos and Bielle-Biarrey either side of another from Faessler left the scores level at 19-19 at the break.<\/p>\n
However, Australia were unable to match France’s energy for long enough in the second half.<\/p>\n
Depoortere gave the hosts the lead before Max Jorgensen replied for the Wallabies – but France seized control late on.<\/p>\n
Poor French discipline in the first half – conceding eight penalties – had allowed the visitors to stay in the game, and Les Bleus led by just a point with 20 minutes left.<\/p>\n
However, Julien Marchand and Bielle-Biarrey scores extended their advantage, and Josh Nasser’s attempt to spark a fightback was met with a quick French reply as Maxime Lamothe added another a minute from the end.<\/p>\n
Bielle-Biarrey’s double, which also saw him set up two tries, means he has now scored 20 Test tries in 22 appearances since his debut in 2023, while France’s win secured them a top seed in the World Cup draw.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Italy’s autumn series finished with a 34-19 win at home to Chile in the first meeting between the sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia have ended a European tour winless for the first time in 67 years after a 48-33 defeat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-154622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}