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France\u2019s Aaron Grandidier-Nkanang scores a try in the tackle of Australia\u2019s Declan Meredith during the Nations Championship rugby international between France and Australia in Brisbane, Australia, Saturday, July 11, 2026. (AP Photo\/Tertius Pickard)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

BRISBANE, Australia \u2014 Aaron Grandidier-Nkanang scored two tries and Romain Ntamack orchestrated a big comeback as France rallied for a 42-26 win over Australia on Saturday in the second round of the rugby<\/a> Nations Championship.<\/p>

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The French led twice in the first half but trailed 21-12 at the break against a Wallabies lineup that used a one-man advantage to score two tries while Emmanuel Meafou was sidelined for 10 minutes for a yellow card.<\/p>\n

But three tries in a seven-minute span, including two when Australian fullback Tom Wright was on the sidelines for a yellow card, swung momentum fully in favor of the back-to-back Six Nations champions.<\/p>\n

France, on the rebound from a tournament-opening 34-32 loss<\/a> to New Zealand, scored 30 consecutive points in a dominating performance after halftime, including tries for Grandidier-Nkanang, Ntamack, Florian Verhaeghe and Theo Attissogbe. Australia crossed in the 76th minute for a consolation try.<\/p>\n

France will travel to Tokyo to play Japan next week. The Wallabies, after the 33-31 loss to Ireland<\/a> in the first round and the big defeat to France, will go to Perth, Western Australia, to take on Italy in a bid to break a six-test losing streak.<\/p>\n

In an eventful first half for Meafou, who grew up in Australia before moving to France to pursue a professional contract, he scored the opening try in the third minute and also received the yellow card.<\/p>\n

Australia responded six minutes later following a trick lineout move involving hooker Brandon Paenga-Amosa throwing to scrumhalf Ryan Lonergan at the front, getting the return pass and starting the movement that finished with him scoring.<\/p>\n

France went ahead again in the 18th when Grandidier-Nkanang beat rookie Australian flyhalf Duncan Meredith in the chase for Ntamack\u2019s perfectly-weighted stab kick into the left corner from 30 meters out.<\/p>

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In the 25th, with France leading 12-7, Meafou was carded for making head-on-head contact with Australian backrower Rob Valentini and that gave the Wallabies extra space to attack.<\/p>\n

Fraser McReight scored twice in the 10 minutes with a one-man advantage, both from close-range.<\/p>\n

The Australian flanker also saved a try just before halftime when he beat a flying Matthieu Jalibert in a race for the ball into the in-goal.<\/p>\n

The second half was one-way, with the burst of scoring starting in the 49th when the French used numbers out wide and Jalibert kicked wide for an unmarked winger Grandidier-Nkanang to score in the corner.<\/p>\n

France took the lead with a solo try from Ntamack, who ran down the short sideside from about 22-meters out, dummied, palmed off a defender and crashed over in a tackle in the 52nd, and conversion from skipper Maxime Lucu.<\/p>\n

The French kept applying the pressure and turned big advantages in possession and territory into points before the result was beyond Australia\u2019s reach.<\/p>

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AP rugby: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/rugby<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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