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Remy Grosso needed to go to hospital with fears of a head injury after the loss to the All Blacks in Auckland.

France coach Jacques Brunel has blasted the All Blacks for using dangerous and illegal tactics in a tackle on Remy Grosso, who needed to be rushed to the hospital with a head injury.

Sam Cane and Ofa Tu'ungafasi were the two players singled out by Brunel for the incident that has caused concerns of a head injury to Grosso, the French winger.

Cane came in with a swinging arm and then appeared to clash heads with Tu'ungafasi.

"The injury of Remy Grosso is quite serious," Brunel said through an interpreter after the test. 

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"I think that the way he was done by the All Blacks pair was illegal."

Brunel believed a yellow card should have been shown to an All Black for this. However, unlike the one shown to Paul Gabrillagues in the second half, the referee Luke Pearce from England kept his card in his pocket.

Speaking soon after the game, Brunel didn't know how bad Grosso's injury was, but expressed concern.

"I don't know precisely what the problem is, but he is at the hospital," Brunel said.

Aside from this, the French weren't looking for excuses after their 52-11 thrashing on Saturday night.

The game turned in the 51st minute Paul Gabrillagues was controversially sin binned for a head high tackle on Ryan Crotty

Replays showed the call was a harsh one and it proved to be the decisive moment in the test as the All Blacks scored two tries when the French were down to 14 men.

By the time the French were back to their full quota, their spirit was broken.

"Yellow card or no yellow card, we had to keep going," Brunel said.

Brunel said the French team needed to bounce back from this performance and play for the full 80 minutes when the two teams meet in Wellington next weekend.

"We have to be better with our kicking if we hope to beat the All Blacks," he said.

"This is just the beginning and we can't improve everything in just a week. We have to improve in attack, in defence and that's what we're aiming to do over the next week."

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Alexandre Lapandry and his French team-mates struggled when they went down to 14 men at Eden Park.

Meanwhile, France captain Mathieu Bastareaud said his team struggled to deal with leading 11-8 at halftime.

Few gave them a chance of winning this test and while they found themselves up at the break, they couldn't cope with that pressure.

"I was surprised to be leading at halftime," Bastareaud said. 

"This type of game is played on the details and sometimes there was a lack of communication with the tackling and the game was won because of this."

With two more tests to come at the end of an arduous French season, Bastareaud said the players can't think about the rest they'll eventually have, but have to concentrate on bouncing back.

"We can't say that the end of the tour will be long, because we have a lot to improve," he said.

"I've asked my team-mates to improve and I've said to them that's it's a privilege to play here. 

"This was a lesson today, but there are two other games for us to do better in, so that's what we had to do."

 - Stuff