Virimi Vakatawa bolting like a frisky colt, England shirts left in his wake! Jack Nowell scrags him with a despairing last-ditch tackle and it is a try-saver. 

France recycle, force a penalty advantage and they will turn their sights to goal after a cross-field kick fails to find its target. 

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Former England captain Will Carling: Calm heads, precision, intensity & controlled desire needed from England. Channel their desperation to win into focus on their basics....

England kept the French team waiting out on the pitch for a couple of minutes while they received their final instructions from Eddie Jones. 

Joe Marler has been brought on in place of Mako Vunipola.

Jules Plisson's kick is safely claimed by a white shirt.

Jeremy Guscott
Former England international on BBC One

"England need to keep their penalties down. They have conceded six, four in their own half, and they need to believe in their own game plan."

Austin Healey: Danny Care tempo and try brilliant but must sort the box kicking out.

Will Greenwood: This is epically tense!!!!!!!!!!! #comeonengland @EnglandRugby I need more beer...

Richard Wigglesworth: Good 1st half, sapped the French legs.Tempo and ball in play will tell.Ruck pens and kick return keeping French in it.will run away with it

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Nick Hughes: Ford looks completely lost out there. Moving Farrell to 10 and bringing on an inside centre looks best to shore up the backs.

Wyre Davies: Quite a few of this England XV would walks into a Lions squad if it were picked right now.

John M Butt: Mike Brown has not passed the ball all 6 Nations I have not been impressed with him. Runs into 4 French loses ball?

Jeremy Guscott
Former England international on BBC One

"It has not been as accurate from England as in the first four games. The French are not offloading and are causing England problems.

"I'm convinced England thought they could steam them, get three or four early tries, but that has not been the case and it will be interesting to see how England cope mentally."

Owen Farrell's kick wafts past the sticks and England head down the tunnel five points to the good.

But this game is alive, alivo certainly.

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Nigel Owens is trying to decipher what these two front-rows are up to.

He decides that France have dragged that set-piece south and that has given Owen Farrell a shot at goal with the final action of the half...

Maxime Machenaud has been impeccable off the tee so far. England's advantage is down to an unconverted try's difference.

Play is pulled back for England's failure to release. 

Maxime Machenaud is going to take a shot at goal.

Replays show a nice piece of opposite-number nastiness as Billy Vunipola wallops Loann Goujon in the tackle and then aims some verbal afters at the Frenchman.

A crafty piece of cat-burglary on the floor from Maxime Mermoz. Perfectly legal over the top of Anthony Watson and France are moving upfield to the England 22m.

And now they have a penalty advantage to play with...

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England win a turnover in the scrum and the heavy cavalry start blasting away. This is the sort of physical battle that this medieval French pack with relish though. 

Chris Robshaw is the filling in a tasty Jefferson Poirot/Damien Chouly sandwich before Mako Vunipola knocks on as Loann Goujon thumps in hard.

England with a line-out on the France 22m. Dylan Hartley hits Maro Itoje. Billy Vunipola rumbles forward, but Yoann Mastri has him heading in reverse. 

Jack Nowell with something more subtle. And effective! Out to Mike Brown, but the ball goes forward as the England full-back's footing fails him at the crucial moment.

France scrum-half Maxime Machenaud slots after England indiscipline, This match is fizzing and popping like sherbet. England have got the lead but not control by a long stretch.

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France have certainly not been 11 points worse than England so far, but their errors have been ruthlessly punished and their chances to score have been wastefully squandered.

The hosts are up to the England 22. Jules Plisson, on for Trinh-Duc, gives it width, Virimi Vakatawa charges like a bull and is lassoed into touch five metres out by a brave Mike Brown.  

Dan Cole has wriggled and wiggled over from close range. Nigel Owens initially awards the try, but the replay on the big screen has the crowd booing and now he heads upstairs to investigate whether Mako Vunipola has screened off Guilhem Guirado in the act of tackling...

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Maxime Machenaud cuts the gap with a solid penalty, but England are a'knocking.

Billy Vunipola bustling with energy and busting tackles. His team to within ten.