France fly-half Romain Ntamack dazzled at the Stade de France as Les Bleus kept their hopes of Guinness Six Nations glory alive with a 41-28 win over Wales.
Following their 53-10 win over England at Twickenham last week, France knew they would another success to keep the pressure on Ireland ahead of their clash with England later in the day.
Wales opened the scoring through George North but then Ntamack turned on the style, making a stunning break through a gap between Nick Tompkins and North and racing into the Wales 22.
He then had the presence of mind to find Toulouse teammate Antoine Dupont, who flung out a perfect 30m pass to Damian Penaud for France to level the scores.
They did not look back from there, going on to score four more tries in a relatively routine victory.
Notching up 66 metres from just six carries, Ntamack had his most complete game in a France jersey this Championship, using the perfect mixture of kicking, passing and running himself to create havoc in the Wales defence.
His two broken tackles came on the way to Penaud’s try, while no other France player made more offloads than Ntamack’s two.
The win took France up to 174 points scored for the Championship, averaging 34.8 per match, as their incredible attack under Laurent Labit continues to go from strength to strength and no two players are more important to that than Dupont and Ntamack.
Now Ntamack and Les Bleus face a nervous wait to see if they will be named Champions or if Ireland can get something in Dublin and claim the title themselves.
