France head coach Philippe Saint-Andre reverted to his favoured halfback pairing of Sebastien Tillous-Borde and Camille Lopez when he named them on Thursday in a reshuffled team to face Italy in the Six Nations on Sunday . Scrumhalf Tillous-Borde and flyhalf Lopez started all three November tests but the Toulon player missed the first two Six Nations games through injury before starting on the bench for the third . France started with a 15-8 home win against Scotland before losing 18-11 in Ireland and went down 20-13 against Wales at the Stade de France . France scrum half Sebastien Tillous-Borde returns to the starting line-up for their Six Nations clash with Italy . Tillous-Borde rejoins Camille Lopez in head coach Philippe Saint-Andre 's preferred halves pairing . Saint-Andre made eight changes to the team who lost against Wales after the squad was hit by a series of injuries , with scrumhalf Morgan Parra , centres Remi Lamerat and Wesley Fofana as well as wing Sofiane Guitoune being ruled out . Fullback Brice Dulin was replaced by Scott Spedding while wing Noa Nakaitaci and number eight Loann Goujon have been handed their first start with Les Bleus . Centre Maxime Mermoz will start in his first appearance in this year 's championship . France , who finished fourth last year and ended up with the wooden spoon in 2013 , are fourth in the standings before travelling to Italy and England . Saint-Andre has rung in eight changes to the side that lost to Wales as they look for maximum points in Rome . 15-Scott Spedding , 14-Yoann Huget , 13-Gael Fickou , 12-Maxime Mermoz , 11-Noa Nakaitaci , 10-Camille Lopez , 9-Sebastien Tillous-Borde , 8-Loann Goujon , 7-Bernard Le Roux , 6-Thierry Dusautoir ( captain ) , 5-Yoann Maestri , 4-Alexandre Flanquart , 3-Nicolas Mas , 2-Guilhem Guirado , 1-Eddy Ben Arous . Replacements : Benjamin Kaiser , Rabah Slimani , Vincent Debaty , Romain Taofifenua , Damien Chouly , Rory Kockott , Jules Plisson , Mathieu Bastareaud .
France coach Philippe Saint-Andre has gone back to preferred playmakers . Sebastien Tillous-Borde and Camille Lopez started in all Autumn Tests . Toulon scrum-half Tillous-Borde returned to the bench for loss to Wales . France are first in the Six Nations having won one of their three games .