Alldritt said: “It was a big team performance today, incredible to play in this stadium, our fans are outstanding.

"The key was to play as a team, we've got a lot of individual really good players, and we wanted to play as a team.

"I think we did well, we got forwards and backs tries. We are happy with the win tonight, but we’ve only done 20 per cent of the job, we've got four more games to go."

The Paris symphony orchestra are back in session. Forced away from their suburban concert hall last year by the Olympics, on their Six Nations to the Stade de France this fabulous French side giving the capital crowd a night to remember.

Twelve months ago, in Marseille they had played all the wrong notes in the wrong order to be badly beaten by Ireland; Wales may not be in the class of the two-time defending champions but this was a drastic improvement.

They have the capacity to play far better than they did in this 43-0 thrashing. It is their ability to blend a mighty percussion section with the softer strings that marks France out as tournament favourites, but the difference in this fixture, and perhaps to this tournament, was their masterful maestro of a conductor. The peerless Antoine Dupont, absent last year en route to securing Olympic gold, is back where he belongs.

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The only real negative for France was the red card for Romain Ntamack after he caught Ben Thomas in the head with his shoulder.

He might miss the round two game against England now. Here’s the incident, which was upgraded from the initial yellow

Ntamack made high and forceful contact to the head of Ben Thomas, with a swift review of the footage called for by the television match official.

Having watched the challenge again, Paul Williams produced a yellow card having concluded that the challenge met the threshold required. It was then reviewed by the Foul Play Review Officer via the bunker system to determine if an upgrade was required.

“There was a high degree of danger and no mitigation,” Williams informed French on-field captain Gregory Alldritt, producing a red card. Under a new trial this Six Nations, France would have been able to replace the wing after 20 minutes had the game not concluded.

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And that’s that. France nil Wales in the first game of the 2025 Six Nations!

They were too strong and Antoine Dupont inspired a first-half demolition that put the game to bed. England at Twickenham next week may be a bigger challenge.

Wales battled hard enough but their losing streak extends to 13 games and their game against Italy next week is huge.

Into the last knocking here. France have been at a different level to Wales today, in truth.

France probing for a seventh try. Within five metres and they keep it with the big lads - Colombe has a go, then Baille burrows and is inches short.

Gregory Alldritt runs in when he spots the ball at the back while Le Garrec is tied up in the ruck, picks it up and snipes to the right, diving over for the try. Good low position from the France No 8.

Le Garrec errs again with the conversion - the French kicking has faltered in this second half but they won’t care too much

This match will end as 14 vs 14. Freddie Thomas the latest Welshman to commit a penalty and Wales have been warned, so it’s a yellow card for the replacement lock.

Blair Murray takes contact for Wales and tries to lay the ball off as he hits the ground but it rolls forward. The French defence seem to have them sussed today.

Five minutes to avoid being blanked

Wales desperately trying to get some points on the board but it’s not happening in attack.

And we’ve got an announcement on the Ntamack tackle - that’s been upgraded to a red card and deservedly so. Thomas had already kicked the ball, he led with the shoulder, no attempt to wrap, no mitigation and so it’s a sending off.