France 30-27 Scotland: Late penalty give World Cup hosts victory
Kyle Steyn crossed in the opening minutes for the Scots but Romain Ntamack's try helped the French to a 13-10 half-time lead.
The old Scottish Achilles' heel of botched restarts reared its ugly head to allow Ramos to bang over a penalty for France, though Russell responded in kind moments later to restore the seven-point advantage. France made their numerical advantage pay just after the half-hour mark, Dupont peeling off the base of the scrum and feeding Ntamack to glide through the Scottish defence to score. Half-time came as welcome relief to the visitors and going in just three points down was a decent outcome after all France's pressure.
A quick lineout midway inside their own half set Dupont free. He found Ramos, who scorched up the touchline and then fed Ollivon in support to gallop to the line. Having been right in the game at the break, the Scots looked bamboozled and, at 27-10 down, in a lot of trouble. Huw Jones offered hope with a searing break that would have brought the centre a try were it not for some brilliant last-ditch defending from Penaud, though Van der Merwe was on hand to finish things off.
The Scots struck again eight minutes from time. Blair Kinghorn broke through the French defence before substitute George Horne's clever grubber sat up perfectly for Steyn to gather and dive over for his second try and level things up at 27-27.
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