Sunday 11 October 2015 16:14, UK
France have recalled No 8 Louis Picamoles and wing Noa Nakaitaci for Sunday's World Cup Pool D decider with Ireland at the Millennium Stadium.
The rest of the starting XV is unchanged from that which beat Canada 41-18 in their last outing.
Ireland and France have already qualified for the quarter-finals but the stakes are immense with the losers likely to face reigning champions New Zealand in the last eight.
Picamoles, who replaces Bernard Le Roux in the back row, was rested for the Canada match. Damien Chouly moves to openside to accommodate Picamoles at the back of the scrum.
Nakaitaci takes the place of Remy Grosso on the right wing.
France's rhetoric all week has revolved around targeting Ireland pivot Johnny Sexton, and captain Thierry Dusautoir, Picamoles and bulldozing centre Mathieu Bastareaud will be central to that aim.
"Picamoles has always been dangerous as a ball carrier," said Ireland's forwards coach Simon Easterby. "He has the ability to knock players off if you go too high, and he also has ability to offload pretty well."
France coach Philippe Saint-Andre said he has gone with two full-backs - Scott Spedding and Brice Dulin - in his back three to counter Ireland's kicking game.
"Ireland have a very attacking kicking game and score lots of points off up-and-unders and cross-field kicks," said Saint-Andre.
"So to start with two players who are full-backs is a bid to unnerve the Irish and have options for counter-attacking.
"Brice (Dulin) is a good player, he knows how the France team functions because he has been with us since the outset. Ireland put a lot into their offensive kicking.
"So this is to counter that tactic and to create possibilities for ourselves on counter-attacking from those positions."
France: 15 Scott Spedding, 14 Noa Nakaitaci, 13 Mathieu Bastareaud, 12 Wesley Fofana, 11 Brice Dulin, 10 Frederic Michalak, 9 Sebastien Tillous-Borde, 1 Eddy Ben Arous, 2 Guilhem Guirado, 3 Rabah Slimani, 4 Pascal Pape, 5 Yoann Maestri, 6 Thierry Dusautoir (captain), 7 Damien Chouly, 8 Louis Picamoles
Replacements: 16 Benjamin Kayser, 17 Vincent Debaty, 18 Nicolas Mas, 19 Alexandre Flanquart, 20 Bernard Le Roux, 21 Morgan Parra, 22 Remi Tales, 23 Alexandre Dumoulin
