'France played the game they wanted to play'published at 17:18 Greenwich Mean Time
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FT: Italy 24-73 France
Speaking to ITV, former Italy captain Sergio Parisse said: "The France forwards played really flat and narrow before moving the ball wide. It is a tough result to take for Italy. France played the game they wanted to play and they deserve their win.
"This Italian team was playing against a powerful side. In two weeks time they play England so they must learn from this game because England will be a physical team.
"We saw a couple of good tries in the first-half. In every game you have good things even if you conceded 70 points. The defence wasn't good enough and we were under pressure physically."
'It was important to play for 80 minutes'published at 17:09 Greenwich Mean Time
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FT: Italy 24-73 France
Speaking to ITV, France number eight Gregory Alldritt said: "We needed to score tries. We missed a lot at Twickenham but we also wanted to be present in the line-outs, the scrums and in defence. We knew Italy are strong in those areas but we wanted to be strong there to allow our backs to score some tries.
"We have a massive bench so we knew we had to give everything in the first half. The tank was quite empty after half-time so the bench brought a lot of energy.
"It was important to keep going and to play for 80 minutes. The Six Nations is still long so we have two weeks ahead of us before a big game in Ireland."
'Today, it was better'published at 16:58 Greenwich Mean Time
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FT: Italy 24-73 France
Speaking to ITV, France captain Antoine Dupont said: "It was a tough game, especially at the start. We were able to keep the intensity for 80 minutes which is not easy against this Italy team, so we can be proud.
"There were a lot of good things against England [in the last match] but when we had to score the tries we made mistakes. Today, it was better.
"We know it will be a huge game in Dublin. We have two weeks to prepare for that but it will be tough for sure."
Converted Try - Italy 24-68 Francepublished at 76 mins
76 mins
Theo Attissogbe (con Maxime Lucu)
A trademark winger's finish.
Louis Bielle-Biarrey is into midfield to find his opposite wing Theo Attissogbe, who still has plenty to do.
The France number 14 explodes off his left foot to beat the first tackle and then has enough strength to ride the second and third to finish in the corner.
While the talk of records is entirely justified, the wider context of this French demolition job is how it sets up a mouth-watering meeting with Ireland in round four.