MATCH 04 REVIEW : TOUGH TEST AWAKENS FRANCE

This was the week when Europe decided. But while voter apathy may have reigned at the polls across the continent, football fans once more had reason to acclaim the man recently voted Europe's greatest player of the last 50 years.

Virtuoso display
Zinedine Zidane, voted Europe's finest player by uefa.com users in a poll to mark UEFA's Golden Jubilee, single-handedly rescued European champions France from defeat by England with a virtuoso display of skill, spirit and strength of character.

Sublime free-kick
The French captain struck a sublime free-kick deep in added time to underline his breathtaking ball skills and then calmly converted a penalty with the last kick of the game to highlight his dead-eyed determination and rescue France from a first defeat in two years of competitive football.

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