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Germany 'tried to turn over a new leaf' in draw with world champions France

• Germany 0-0 France
• Alphonse Areola shines in goal for world champions

Germany walked out to a heart-shaped display of flags waving in the stands and, by the time they came off, perhaps a little bit of the old love had found its way back. They finished this match on top against the world champions, who had barely been troubled for three-quarters of it, and would have won had it not been for a series of excellent saves from the debutant goalkeeper Alphonse Areola. Yet there is little cause to go overboard, either, after a largely stodgy affair that provided nothing like the kind of entertainment Uefa’s suits will have sought from a Nations League opener.

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