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A crowd of 71,223 people – including British Prime Minister David Cameron and Prince William stood up to sing “La Marseillaise” to show solidarity in response to the terror attacks that left 129 people dead and over 350 injured in Paris.

“I am not going to look too far forward – I’ve still got a lot to learn”, the level-headed midfielder said when the subject of Euro 2016 was broached.

“I am French. And when something happens to the French people, it happens to me”.

He added: “I thought we played very well in the first half – as well as we’ve played here at Wembley for a long time”. It wasn’t us who pushed the French FA to do this. Its article continued: “At Wembley we discovered that all the French-bashing ridicule – those digs about our smelly cheeses and us having garlic breath – was one big misunderstanding”.

Deschamps brought in Crystal Palace’s Yohan Cabaye, Manchester United’s Morgan Schneiderlin and former Newcastle winger Hatem Ben Arfa as the visitors made five alterations to the side that began the game with Germany on Friday. We have seen that when they play for Spurs and we are looking to use that for England.

“We’ll sing along and it’s going to be one of those evenings that will be very poignant”, Paul Lloyd, a 52-year-old England supporter wearing a red England shirt, said before the match.

Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny said: “I know the English and they have great respect for the French”.

“I thought we achieved everything we wanted to achieve and then of course we had to put it aside and play a game of football and leave that side of it behind, because once the whistle goes it actually becomes about a game of football for us”. We have a platform. “It is important we show solidarity with all those affected by the tragic events that took place in Paris on Friday”.

Didier Deschamps expressed his gratitude at England’s support of France on Tuesday night and called the pre-match ceremonies “a powerful emotional moment”. The last three days, with the preparations we’ve had, had clearly taken something out of us.

Yet the match and result was essentially superfluous in the grand scheme of things other than to re-assert the French nation’s determination to bounce back from adversity. The players had returned to Clairefontaine from the friendly against Germany at 4am on Saturday morning, and had remained in lockdown at their training base over the weekend attempting to come to terms with what had happened.

“We are only human”, said the Paris Saint-Germain midfielder, Blaise Matuidi. “The performance was not there for us and we had a lack of aggressiveness and concentration”.