Les Bleus face a difficult hurdle

GALTHIE: WARNS THAT LOS PUMAS ARE A FEARLESS SIDE

- FABIEN GALTHIE

Antoine Dupont's resurgent France host a vastly-improving Argentina tonight in their final game of the November internationals with Les Bleus head coach Fabien Galthie already thinking of next year's Six Nations.

Los Pumas, coached by ex-Test playmaker Felipe Contepomi, are hurting from last week's loss in Ireland, which followed a hammering of Italy earlier in the month and a promising Rugby Championship campaign.

Galthie's side edged New Zealand by a point last Saturday in a rare highlight to a mixed 13 months since last year's World Cup quarterfinal loss on home soil.