France vs Scotland, Six Nations 2017: what time is the match and what TV channel is it on?

What is it?

It's the second round of fixtures in the 2017 Six Nations Championship, obviously.

Scotland travel to France in what will be the final match of the weekend in the Six Nations.

Where is it?

The Stade de France will be the venue as France look to recover from an opening weekend defeat to England at Twickenham.

When is it?

Sunday February 12.

What time is it on?

The match is only Six Nations game to be played on Sunday will kick off at 3pm.

What TV channel is it on?

You can watch live coverage of the match on BBC One and BBC HD. 

The programme starts from 2pm, but you can also follow all the build-up right here with our Telegraph Sport live blog. 

What's the team news?

France have made one change to the side that narrowly lost to England. Loann Goujon replaces Damien Chouly at blindside flanker as coach Guy Noves otherwise sticks with the team that severely tested holders England at Twickenham until succumbing to a 19-16 loss.

Chouly takes Goujon's place on the bench where hooker Christopher Tolofua replaces Clement Maynadier and second row Julien Le Devedec comes in for Arthur Iturria.

France XV: 15 Scott Spedding; 14 Noa Nakaitaci, 13 Remi Lamerat, 12 Gaël Fickou, 11 Virimi Vakatawa; 10 Camille Lopez, 9 Baptiste Serin; 8 Louis Picamoles, 7 Kevin Gourdon, 6 Loann Goujon, 5 Yoann Maestri, 4 Sebastien Vahaamahina, 3 Uini Atonio, 2 Guilhem Guirado (captain), 1 Cyril Baille.

Replacements: 16 Christopher Tolofua, 17 Rabah Slimani, 18 Xavier Chiocci, 19 Julian Le Devedec, 20 Damien Chouly, 21 Maxime Machenaud, 22 Jean-Marc Doussain, 23 Yoann Huget

 

Scotland flanker John Barclay has replaced the injured Ryan Wilson. Wilson has dropped out with an elbow infection following Scotland's opening Six Nations victory over Ireland.

Fraser Brown and Finn Russell both retain their starting places after going off with injuries in the first half of the 27-22 win over the Irish at BT Murrayfield.

How did both teams fare in their last games?

Scotland stunned Ireland at Murrayfield to win their first Six Nations opener in over 10 years. 

Vern Cotter's side fought off a late comeback from Ireland to put pay to Joe Schmidt's dreams of a Grand Slam triumph.

Scotland captain, Greg Laidlaw, has called on his teammates to back up victory in Edinburgh and pull off their first Six Nations win in Paris since 1999.

"France are a good team and it is a hard place to win. We are under no illusions this week - we need to be on top form to get something out of the game.

"We'll need accuracy and we need to be physical and aggressive because the French are big men. But we need to be subtle and clever in our attack.

"If we do that, and move France about and play for 80 minutes, I would back our fitness against them. But we obviously need to be in the game right to the death and not let France get any momentum."

France have not won the tournament since 2010 but Laidlaw is wary of the threat posed by Les Bleus. 

"They have improved massively under [coach] Guy Noves and have not been far away from any team they have played," Laidlaw noted. "They have some really dangerous strike runners throughout the team.

"As much as we need to understand why we beat them last year, we need to develop that, be clever and smart and be able to score points.

"We need to keep doing what we are doing well, keep our skills high and if we do that again this weekend, we are going to put ourselves in a strong position."

France narrowly missed out on an opening weekend victory over England and Laidlaw says the visitors will have to start well if they hope to make it back-to-back victories.

"The start of the game is massively important, whether it is our kick-off, or or us receiving. It is very important psychologically for them as it is for us.

"If we can start the game playing in the right areas of the field for the first 20 minutes and not muck about too much in our own half, hopefully we will put them under pressure and upset the crowd a little bit."

France came within four points of winning their first Test match in England for 12 years and Guy Noves' side will be buoyed by their performance at Twickenham.

France gained more metres (586), made more clean breaks (13) and made more offloads (17) than any other side in the first week.

What are the odds?

France 2/5

Scotland 21/10

Draw 22/1

What's our prediction?

Both teams were surprisingly impressive in their first games and it looks set to be a close and attritional encounter at the Stade de France.

Scotland have never won the first two matches of the Six Nations before, but a lot will depend on how France respond to a cruel last-gasp defeat to England.

Back Scotland to continue their resurgence under Vern Cotter.

Prediction: France 13-16 Scotland