France miss Elissalde

Laporte will name his team on Wednesday

Jean-Baptiste Elissalde, France's man of the match in Sunday's win over Wales, is the most notable absentee from the French squad to face Scotland.

The scrum-half has been ruled out of the rest of the Six Nations Championship with a torn hamstring.

But the French, the only team still in contention for the Grand Slam, have taken out no cover for Elissalde.

Dimitri Yachvili, the second-choice scrum-half who replaced him in Cardiff, will almost certainly play.

France have recalled fly-half Julien Peyrelongue, full-back Clement Poitrenaud and wing Pepito Elhorga for the match at Murrayfield.

The management team have decided that Yachvili, the second-choice scrum-half, Frederic Michalak, who was converted from scrum-half to fly-half last season, and Michalak's deputy Peyrelongue will cover the half-back positions.

If Yachvili is injured at Murrayfield, Michalak could move over with Peyrelongue taking his place at fly-half.

Cedric Heymans and Aurelien Rougerie were dropped.

France will name their starting team next Wednesday.

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France squad:

Forwards - William Servat (Stade Toulousain), Yannick Bru (Stade Toulousain), Sylvain Marconnet (Stade Françcis), Pieter De Villiers (Stade Francais), Jean-Jacques Crenca (Agen), Fabien Pelous (Stade Toulousain, capt), Pascal Pape (Bourgoin), David Auradou (Stade Francais), Serge Betsen (Biarritz), Thomas Lièvremont (Biarritz), Imanol Harinordoquy (Pau), Olivier Magne (Montferrand)

Backs - Dimitri Yachvili (Biarritz), Frederic Michalak (Stade Toulousain), Julien Peyrelongue (Biarritz), Damien Traille (Pau), Yannick Jauzion (Stade Toulousain), Clement Poitrenaud (Stade Toulousain), Christophe Dominici (Stade Français), Vincent Clerc (Stade Toulousain), Nicolas Brusque (Biarritz), Pepito Elhorga (Agen)