Chalureau was cheered before kick-off and roared onto the pitch by an enthusiastic home crowd in Lille
And Chalureau could yet have a significant role to play in this World Cup; with Willemse already out, Romain Taofifenua could be facing a ban after being yellow-carded for a tackle to the head of Santiago Arata, a challenge that on another night might have seen him shown red.
Even before he had played a minute of rugby, Chalureau’s inclusion had made headlines. Thierry Dusautoir, half-Ivorian and born in the Cote d’Ivoire, said he “always had a problem with him in the French team” and president Emmanuel Macron even confronted head coach Fabien Galthie about it, telling him: “We don’t want the controversy getting out of hand.”
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