{"id":471735,"date":"2026-03-12T16:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471735\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:01:08","slug":"six-nations-2026-uncapped-flanker-temo-matiu-starts-for-france-v-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471735\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations 2026: Uncapped flanker Temo Matiu starts for France v England"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flanker Temo Matiu will make his debut in France’s final Six Nations game against England in Paris on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old starts in place of Oscar Jegou, who was given a four-week suspension for an eye gouge against Scotland.<\/a><\/p>\n

Fabien Galthie’s side were defeated 50-40 by Scotland last weekend to deny them a possible Grand Slam, but they can still secure a record eighth Six Nations crown with a bonus-point win on Saturday (20:10 GMT kick-off).<\/p>\n

In three personnel changes to the pack, powerful Toulouse lock Emmanuel Meafou starts, while Charles Ollivon moves from the second row to number eight in place of the injured Anthony Jelonch.<\/p>\n

Centre Pierre-Louis Barassi comes in for the injured Nicolas Depoortere, with Joshua Brennan, son of former Toulouse and Ireland flanker Trevor Brennan, named on the bench.<\/p>\n

Les Bleus are chasing back-to-back Six Nations titles for the first time since 2006 and 2007.<\/p>\n

Steve Borthwick’s England, who were defeated on Saturday by Italy<\/a> for the first time, have not won a game in the tournament since the opening round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flanker Temo Matiu will make his debut in France’s final Six Nations game against England in Paris on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-471735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}