{"id":34958,"date":"2025-09-19T20:39:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/womens-rugby-world-cup-2025-england-v-france-semi-final-preview-kick-off-time-teams-and-stats\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T20:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:39:03","slug":"womens-rugby-world-cup-2025-england-v-france-semi-final-preview-kick-off-time-teams-and-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/womens-rugby-world-cup-2025-england-v-france-semi-final-preview-kick-off-time-teams-and-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup 2025: England v France semi-final preview, kick-off time, teams and stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Back row forward Axelle Berthoumieu misses the semi-final after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/ce840y83yjko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">being banned for nine matches for biting,<\/a> while co-captain and lock Manae Feleu is also suspended following a dangerous tackle in the win over Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teani Feleu, the younger sister of Manae, and Hina Ikahehegi both come into the pack, with the influential Charlotte Escudero moving from number eight to blindside flanker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carla Arbez starts at fly-half in place of Lina Queyroi, who has failed to recover from concussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Marine Menager moves from outside centre to left wing, with Nassira Konde coming into the XV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wing Joanna Grisez had to withdraw from the starting XV on Friday and was replaced by Kelly Arbey, with Boulard filling the vacant seat on the bench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Team:<\/b> Bourgeois; Arbey, Konde, Vernier, M Menager (capt); Arbez, Bourdon Sansus; Brosseau, Gerin, Bernadou, Fall Raclot, Ikahehegi, Squire, L Champon, T Feleu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Replacements: <\/i>Riffonneau, Deshaye, Khalfaoui, Maka, Okemba, A Chambon, Tuy, Boulard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cd63ged31n0o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back row forward Axelle Berthoumieu misses the semi-final after being banned for nine matches for biting, while co-captain and lock Manae Feleu is also suspended following a dangerous tackle in the win over Ireland. Teani Feleu, the younger sister of Manae, and Hina Ikahehegi both come into the pack, with the influential Charlotte Escudero moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34960,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34958\/revisions\/34960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}