France 37-10 Italy: Six Nations – live!

LIVE – Updated at 17:32

Minute-by-minute report: Join Lee Calvert for updates as highly-fancied France open their campaign against Italy at the Stade de France.

80+2 mins. One final lineout from France in the Italy 22 is taken into the maul once more. Lucu fires it to Ntamack and he does the same onto Villiere. The scrambling Azzuri defence blocks it off before the ball goes all the way right, but imprecision means there’s no way through for France.

All the way left it comes again and this time Villiere has a free run into the corner for his hat-trick.

Ntamack adds the two.

69 mins. Ntamack fizzes a pass to Yoram Moefana who pops to Penaud to set him free on the right touchline. The winger looks inside to find Dupont on the support line and the scrum-half pops it back to Penaud to run in and score.

Jaminet converts.

Italy captain Michele Lamaro is giving his thoughts

“Consistency is what changes a game like this. France created a lot, we were pretty good in defence and physically, but we need to improve our consistency. Definitely a better performance than last year and we faced them with all we have, but still lots of things to work on.

What we did last week to prepare for this game is clearly not enough, so we need to prepare more and different for England.”

Raphael Ibanez has more to say about France.

“After 2o minutes you could tell we were lacking game time together, but after a while it was good - five tries and some good moments. We need to step up in every department and we will be working on addressing discipline. Ireland are next and they are not fourth in the rankings for nothing, which their performance yesteday showed.”

France lock, Paul Willemse, is here

“We are happy with the result even though there’s