Wales 24-45 FranceVisitors score five tries to keep winless hosts bottom
Wales are staring at that wooden spoon. Another run-out for these youngsters, another credible effort, but the challenge against a France side who can cut just as sharply as they bludgeon remorselessly was too much in the final quarter.
Wales held a 24-20 lead as the hour mark approached, three tries to two ahead, but when a side came at you from as many angles as France did, and in such a variety of ways, the ordeal of holding them out will tell eventually. Three tries in the final quarter swept the hosts away, leaving them four points at the bottom, adrift of Italy, who will be their visitors on the final weekend. Wales will need to make up four match points on them and win by more than 11.