France team to face Wales in Six Nations

France head coach Jacques Brunel has named Mathieu Bastareaud as captain of his team to face Wales in Saturday's Six Nations finale at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff.

Adrien Pelissie will take the place of the injured Guilhem Guirado at hooker, with Cedate Gomes Sa also coming into the front row to replace Rabah Slimani.

Full-back Hugo Bonneval comes out of the side and is replaced by winger Gael Fickou, with Benjamin Fall switching to 15.

France team to play Wales

FORWARDS: 1 Jefferson Poirot, 2 Adrien Pelissie, 3 Cedate Gomes Sa, 4 Paul Gabrillagues, 5 Sebastien Vahaamahina, 6 Wenceslas Lauret, 7 Yacouba Camara, 8 Marco Tauleigne

BACKS: 9 Maxime Machenaud, 10 Francois Trinh-Duc, 11 Remy Grosso, 12 Geoffrey Doumayrou, 13 Mathieu Bastareaud (CAPTAIN), 14 Gael Fickou, 15 Benjamin Fall

REPLACEMENTS: 16 Camille Chat, 17 Dany Priso, 18 Rabah Slimani, 19 Bernard Le Roux, 20 Mathieu Babillot, 21 Baptiste Couilloud, 22 Lionel Beauxis, 23 Geoffrey Palis

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