Box kick from Serin is well taken by Kalafamoni

France in control as Faiva restarts deep onto Alldritt

France and Tonga also met at RWC 1995, these two teams' first World Cup encounter. France won 38-10 in Pretoria. Thierry Lacroix was France's leading points scorer that day, with 25.

Free kick for France at the scrum and Serin takes it quickly and finds Raka on the left and he chips ahead and wins the race to gather and score

Veainu hits it up but his offload has been lost forward, scrum France

Final 10 minutes of the half

Free kick to Tonga, they elect to pack down again

It's gone forward for a Tongan scrum as a bit of a scuffle breaks out

Lost and Tonga kick long, Raka bumps off a defender and breaks brilliantly up towards the 22

Only one Tier 2 country has beaten France more often than Tonga (twice): France have suffered eight test
defeats against Romania.