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French book place in quarters with comfortable win

Outside-half Lionel Beauxis steered France to a 64-7 win over Georgia in their final Pool D match on Sunday to book the World Cup hosts a place in the quarter-finals.

Beauxis scored a try and a further 19 points in an impressive kicking display that saw him garner three penalties and five conversions at the Stade Velodrome.

France scored eight more tries through Clement Poitrenaud, Yannick Nyanga, Christophe Dominici (2), Sebastien Bruno, Lionel Nallet, Remy Martin and Julien Bonnaire.

Zviad Maisuradze scored a late consolation try for Georgia, converted by Malkhaz Urjukashvili.

Beauxis kicked the first of his three penalties in the fourth minute and Yannick Jauzion set up the first French try two minutes later, a sharp dummy allowing him to slice through the Georgian defense before passing to full-back Poitrenaud who touched down unopposed.

Beauxis kept France ticking over with two more penalties and no sooner had Georgian loose-head prop Mamuka Magrakvelidze left the field for 10 minutes in the sin bin for a cynical trip on Jean-Baptiste Elissalde than France scored their second try, Nyanga peeling off a maul to cross down the blind side unmarked.

A marvellous offload in the tackle from recalled winger Dominici then saw Nyanga link with Poitrenaud and Beauxis cross the white-wash after taking a delicate drop-off from the full-back.

It was again Beauxis who kickstarted the French in the second-half, delivering a cross-field kick for Dominici, who stepped inside Otar Barkalaia with ease for a try.

Bruno then took advantage of some poor blindside defense to score in the corner.

Dominici claimed his double when Elissalde put in another cross-field kick with the Georgian defense flagging.

The French pack showed their power for their seventh try, Nallet claiming it after an impressive pushover.

Martin and Bonnaire were both beneficiaries of some good linking work for their tries, split by Maisuradze's consolation score for Georgia.
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