A quickfire double to the world champions has cancelled out Craig Goodwin’s early strike for the Socceroos. Halftime: France 2 Australia 1
They’ve been nothing more than passengers for the last 20 minutes, but the Socceroos are almost level. Jackson Irvine steers a header towards the far post, it has Hugo Lloris beaten, it bounces and then kisses the outside of the post. That was the chance.We’re into six added minutes at the end of the first half. The Socceroos pressing for an unlikely equaliser.Kylian Mbappe has missed a chance he would bury nine times out of 10, steering an Antoine Griezmann cross over the bar from six yards.
Kylian Mbappe, just for a change, sets him up with a sumptuous backheel and the Atletico Madrid man’s left-footed strike is disappointing as he drags it beyond Mat Ryan’s near post. That was another good chance for the French. There’s reports the two star French players don’t get on that well. Could have fooled me with that understanding between them.Well, the Socceroos should be counting their lucky stars they’re not down 3-1 at the moment.
Olivier Giroud should have his 51st international goal and Ousmane Dembele is, again, causing all sorts of headaches down the French right. Olivier Giroud celebrates France’s second goal ... minutes before he should have also bagged their third.He slides a ball across to Kylian Mbappe, whose shot is deflected and it falls at the feet of Giroud, who snatches at it and fires over the bar from just inside the box. That was a great chance for France’s third in the space of 10 minutes.
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