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Austria on top!
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'France dominant'
France dominant and Mbappe’s pace is the key factor but they’ve not created major chances. Some nice, precise interplay, with Mbappe’s teammates working the angles to send him through but he’s ended up with impossibly tight finishes. It’ like trying to score in a cupboard.
The best chance was a free header for Robert Lewandowski at the other end but he flunked it. The second half will be a test of whether France can capitalise on their counter-attack and seize the initiative here.
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'Huff and puff from the French so far'
We’re yet to see a really ruthless streak in the French, with or without Mbappe, at this tournament. He’s in a central role this afternoon, not the left-sided position he took up against Austria last week in Dusseldorf, but it’s been huff and puff from the French so far, despite their dangerous capacity to counter-attack.
Poor final passes from Ngolo Kante on two occasions have prevented chances opening up and Bradley Barcola, on his left, has lacked a finish.
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'Inconspicuous start for Lewandowski'
Robert Lewandowski, finally selected to start a game now the Poles are eliminated, starts with some theatrics- going down like a bag of cement after the French keeper Mike Maignan barges past as he tries to block the stopper.
The Pole was booked after a few minutes of arriving in the Austria game for throwing an elbowing. An inconspicuous start to his last international tournament
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'The permutations are complex'
France would have preferred not to start with Kylian Mbappe and the fact he plays with his mask on here demonstrates his team’s need to score to qualify top of the group.
The permutations are complex but if both France and the Netherlands win, France need to score more goals than the Dutch. Mbappe is beaming in the tunnel, discussing his nose with Polish keeper Lukasz Skorupski.
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'Interesting that Depay starts'
Depay starts for the Netherlands, which is mildly interesting on the basis that he dominated at least half of Ronald Koeman’s press conference yesterday.
His form here hasn’t been terribly impressive and his place in the team was the subject of some debate. But Koeman was adamant he was sticking with the former Manchester United forward and he’s been good to his word.
Key Updates
- FULL-TIME: France 1-1 Poland
- FULL-TIME: Netherlands 2-3 Austria
- DISALLOWED GOAL - Austria
- GOAL!!! Netherlands 2-3 Austria (Sabitzer 80')
- GOAL!!! France 1-1 Poland (Lewandowski pen 79')
- PENALTY TO BE RETAKEN!
- PENALTY MISSED!
- GOAL!!! Netherlands 2-2 Austria (Depay 76')
- PENALTY TO POLAND!
- DISALLOWED GOAL - Netherlands
- GOAL!!! Netherlands 1-2 Austria (Schmid 59')
- GOAL!!! France 1-0 Poland (Mbappe pen 56')
- GOAL!!! Netherlands 1-1 Austria (Gakpo 47')
- SECOND HALF: France 0-0 Poland
- SECOND HALF: Netherlands 0-1 Austria
- HALF-TIME: France 0-0 Poland
- HALF-TIME: Netherlands 0-1 Austria
- GOAL!!! Netherlands 0-1 Austria (Malen 6')
- KICK-OFF: France 0-0 Poland
- KICK-OFF: Netherlands 0-0 Austria
- Austria Team News - NO Baumgartner
- Netherlands Team News - Simons DROPPED
- Poland Team News - Lewandowski STARTS
- France Team News - Mbappe STARTS
- What’s at stake?
- Group C Finale