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 fourth philippe saint andre camille lopez sebastien tillous borde wales the six nations toulon scrum half
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 fourth in the six nations having won one of their three games 