Fabien Galthié brought back the 23 winners from Cardiff to face England on Saturday evening in Lyon on the last day of the Six Nations Tournament. “The intensity fought, whether on the ground, man-to-man and in the air, is going to be enormous…” “We will have to be solid and compact because it will hit hard, and repeatedly, on the midfield,” says the French coach.

‘We find an explosive, powerful, solid English team, which excels in the hand-foot alternation’