Game 1
France 80 def. Russia 0
Team Info
France
- Previous Game:
- France vs Australia 2004 - Game 1 vs. Australia
- Next Game:
- [no comp] - vs. England
- Out:
- Claude Sirvent (centre), Adel Fellous (front row), David Berthezene (hooker), Olivier Elima (second row), Olivier Pramil (bench), Rémi Casty (bench), Said Tamghart (bench), Teddy Sadaoui (bench)
- In:
- Olivier Charles (wing), Adam Innes (centre), Laurent Frayssinous (five-eighth), Cédric Gay (hooker), Jérôme Guisset (front row), Christophe Moly (lock), Sébastien Raguin (bench)
- Changes:
- Frédéric Zitter (wing to bench), Jérôme Hermet (centre to wing), Damien Couturier (wing to centre), Maxime Grésèque (five-eighth to halfback), Julien Rinaldi (halfback to bench), Jamal Fakir (second row to bench), Grégory Mounis (lock to second row), Laurent Carrasco (bench to second row)
Russia
- Previous Game:
- European Nations Championship 2004 - Game 2 vs. England
- Next Game:
- European Nations Championship 2005 - Game 2 vs. Georgia
- Out:
- Oleg Logunov (wing), Robert Ilyasov (centre), Oleg Ghukov (five-eighth), Georgy Vinogradov (front row), Aidar Akhmetskin (second row), Maxim Romanov (lock), Andrey Kukarin (bench), Sergey Sidorov (bench)
- In:
- Rinat Chamsoutdinov (wing), Valentin Baskakov (wing), Viktor Nechaev (five-eighth), Igor Gavrilin (halfback), Andrey Dumalkin (front row), Irakli Chkhikvadze (second row), Audrey Kuzovkov (bench), Denis Korolev (bench)
- Changes:
- Aleksandr Lysenkov (centre to second row), Nikolay Zagoskin (wing to bench), Artem Grigoryan (halfback to centre), Evgeny Bojoukov (second row to lock), Sergey Dobrynin (bench to centre)
This match is a part of the following:
Contributions:
Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson