Alan Pardew: “I’m pleased he got the goal against Cardiff.
“It’s important for him – and important for us and for France.
“He had a good chance in the first half where he could have rushed it a little bit.
“He’s very calm in those finishing situations.
“He probably didn’t have his best game, but of the three (French) internationals, he was probably the one who wasn’t quite up to speed.
“They’d only had a game and a half each.”
