An up-tempo version of Edith Piaf’s “La Vie en rose” then played out before 48-year-old French DJ David Guetta took centre stage playing a collection of songs including The Black Eyed Peas” “I Gotta Feeling, ‘ and his own singles “Play Hard, ‘ featuring American artists Ne-Yo and Akon, and ‘Titanium” featuring Australian singer, Sia.
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England s prolific new strike partnership of Premier League top-scorer Harry Kane and Leicester City title-winning hero Jamie Vardy will hope to outgun Russian Federation on Saturday.
If Payet’s rising shot from outside the area showed the best side of “the handsome game”, the ugly side was provided by supporters in Marseille’s Old Port, as police repeatedly clashed with fans from France, Russia and England deep into the night. But I’m continuing my run of form and that’s good for me’.
However, in the second half things turned around with the game getting faster. At the end I thought, “This is a new job for me” and I’m not ashamed to say that – it’s the truth. When you go to the Premier League it’s too hard for some people to play in and to win’.
“When you score goals like Payet did, that gives you a lot of confidence”.
Dimitri Payet being mobbed by coach Didier Deschamps “I’ll put him on ice ahead of the next few matches to make sure that nothing untoward befalls him”.
The former Marseille virtuoso now plies his trade under Slaven Bilic’s West Ham and skyrocketed the perennial mid-table team into one of the most formidable sides in England.
“I know it is risky but to support Romania is just more important than everything”, the 27-year-old told AFP in Paris.
Juventus veteran Evra said: “I’m not surprised how quickly he has fitted in here”.
“Dimitri, we know him, he had a great season”. Now he has gone to the next level with his personality and his character.
“But as the game progressed, we took the upper hand”. I think he has shown he is ready’.
France was revelling in a victorious start to the Euro 2016 on Saturday after winning the opening match, but a strike by Air France pilots threatened to disrupt travel for hundreds of thousands of fans.
Even though he was coming off a superb season in the English Premier League with West Ham, Payet struggled to come to terms with what he had produced in the 89th minute – and burst into tears as he left the pitch after being substituted.
‘The emotion he showed at the end was the same for all of us, we all felt like that.
“With that comes pressure, so we needed to win”.
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Anything less than a win in last night’s game against Bolivia could have seen them eliminated, and the first big chance of the game (on 40 minutes) fell of course to Alexis.
