FRance goalkeeper Fabien Barthez has urged his team-mates to forget all about the epic victory over England and turn their attention to beating Croatia.

Barthez, with playmaker Zinedine Zidane, was one of the heroes of the match at the Stadium of Light with his penalty save from England captain David Beckham, keeping them in the game when Sven-Goran Eriksson's side led 1-0.

However, as far as the Marseille goalkeeper is concerned, that match should now be consigned to the history books.

Barthez said: ''England is in the past. We will look to the future now.

''As a goalkeeper I always concentrate on my own game rather than that of our opponents but this match will be just as hard as the one against England.

''In football things happen very quickly and we have to concentrate on the rest of the tournament.

''What is certain is that we staged a great coup in our opening match but to win the Euro we have to win six matches. We have won the first.''

Barthez, a member of the France team which won the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000, is one of the players who may consider his international future after this tournament, but showed he is still a goalkeeper to reckon with by brilliantly saving Beckham's penalty.

Throughout his career he has had a reputation for making bungles in relatively unimportant matches but being focused and sharp when it matters. In the 1998 World Cup he conceded just two goals in the entire tournament, one of those a penalty by Denmark in a group match.

Current France boss Jacques Santini knows if France beat the Croats to reach the last eight, he can rest some of his ageing warhorses in the final pool match with Switzerland.

He is therefore unlikely to tinker too much with the line-up that performed so memorably against England, although of the three players who suffered knocks, Claude Makelele is the worst affected. Makelele was given a specialised training programme on Wednesday but Santini hopes he can take his place in the starting line-up against Croatia.

Santini is unfazed about a relatively lacklustre display by Thierry Henry against England and pointed out that it was the Arsenal striker whose speed and stealth earned the winning penalty against England that was converted by Zidane.

''Even if he did not score, Henry was fine,'' said Santini.

''He continued to work for the team even though the English defence put him under extraordinary pressure.''

Santini is confident he will be able to field his full line-up against Croatia and said: ''Some, like Henry, William Gallas and Makelele took some painful knocks against England.

But psychologically the squad is on an upwards momentum."