The Euro 2016 minute: Payet gets party started for France … just

Fans watch France’s win beneath the Eiffel Tower. Photograph: Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images

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5. Oh brother

Siblings Granit and Taulant Xhaka are set to square off in Saturday’s early game between Switzerland and Albania … but on opposite sides.

Nick Ames has the full story

Granit, left … Taulant, right. Composite: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images; David Rogers/Getty Images

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4. And here come England too

Will Roy Hodgson’s team finally end 50 years of hurt? Probably not, but we run the rule over them before their opening game with Russia.

Enter England.

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3. Wales make their Euros bow

Gareth Bale is already looking beyond Saturday’s opener with Slovakia to their second game against … England: “It is like any derby – you never want to lose to the enemy. I think we’ve got a lot more passion and pride about us than them.”

Oh, it’s on. Photograph: Andrew Medichini/AP

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2. Football Daily

Join AC Jimbo and co for our daily Euro 2016 podcast. On today’s show, James Horncastle and Paul MacInnes are on hand to discuss the opening game and trouble in Marseille.

Euro 2016 Football Daily

Not the face. Photograph: James Drew Turner for the Guardian

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1. One game down … 50 more to go

On a night when France needed a hero against Romania, they got one in the shape of a gorgeously talented, creative late-blooming Dimitri Payet, who worked part-time in a clothes shop while he was at Nantes.

Barney Ronay looks back at the hosts’ 2-1 win over Romania

Wasn’t a bad goal to win it, eh? Photograph: Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images

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