LIVE: Wallabies brace for 'best team in world'

After a 2 week camp, France's buildup to its end-of-year rugby Tests was described arsenic "very implicit and precise intense."

"We truly tried to optimise each minute," squad manager Raphael Ibanez said.

The satisfying effect to the coaches was getting 2 of their champion players — flyhalf Romain Ntamack and loosehead prop Cyril Baille — remarkably up to velocity from skimpy crippled clip this play and into the squad playing Australia connected Sunday (7am AEDT) astatine the Stade de France.

Ntamack hasn't played successful 8 weeks due to the fact that of an ankle injury.

Baille made his archetypal quality of the play past play disconnected the seat for Toulouse.

Both are someway starting for France.

"(Baille) validated everything we needed to cognize for a imaginable selection," France manager Fabien Galthie said.

"He seems acceptable to instrumentality up the challenge."

Ntamack was thrown into uncompromising grooming sessions and passed.

According to Galthie: "the strength and velocity are greater than those of a match."

The manager said spot flowed some ways.

The players had to cognize the coaches were preparing them properly, and the coaches had to spot the players were giving them honorable answers.

"We justice each this information and, if it is sometimes challenging for us, truthful acold we person succeeded," Galthie said.

The impervious is simply a 10 Test winning roll, matching France's nationalist grounds from the 1930s.

The streak includes a archetypal Six Nations Grand Slam successful 12 years and a 2-0 bid triumph successful Japan successful July.

The Wallabies were the past squad to bushed France, astatine location successful July past year.

But manager Dave Rennie had nary uncertainty astir however the situation against France had go bigger.

"This side's the champion successful the world, careless of what the rankings say," Rennie said.

"They're unbeaten successful astir 15 months, they've beaten the No.1-ranked broadside Ireland, truthful we're looking guardant to the challenge. We're surely going to spell retired determination and springiness it a crack."

The Wallabies person had to alteration 4 aft edging Scotland 16-15 past weekend.

Taniela Tupou volition reason Baille successful the scrum aft Allan Alaalatoa was retired concussed, and into the backline person travel scrumhalf Nic White, centre Lalakai Foketi and fullback Jock Campbell, who volition marque his archetypal Test start.

France: Thomas Ramos, Damian Penaud, Gael Fickou, Jonathan Danty, Yoram Moefana, Romain Ntamack, Antoine Dupont (c), Gregory Alldritt, Charles Ollivon, Anthony Jelonch, Thibaud Flament, Cameron Woki, Uini Atonio, Julien Marchand, Cyril Baille

Reserves: Peato Mauvaka, Dany Priso, Sipili Falatea, Romain Taofifenua, Killian Geraci, Sekou Macalou, Maxime Lucu, Mathieu Jalibert

Australia: Jock Campbell, Andrew Kellaway, Len Ikitau, Lalakai Foketi, Tom Wright, Bernard Foley, Nic White; Rob Valetini, Michael Hooper, Jed Holloway, Cadeyrn Neville, Nick Frost, Taniela Tupou, David Porecki, James Slipper (c)

Reserves: Folau Fainga'a, Matt Gibbon, Tom Robertson, Will Skelton, Pete Samu, Jake Gordon, Hunter Paisami, Reece Hodge