DÜSSELDORF (GERMANY) – At the France just theWober’s own goal in the 38th minute of the first half to overcome theAustria at the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf in the debut match a Euro 2024. The world vice-champions thus join theHolland (2-1 comeback win against Poland on debut) at the top of the Group D while the selection of Rangnick stays behind in the company of Szczesny Poland. The Galletti coach Didier Deschamps sends the AC Milan players onto the field from the first minute Maignan And Theo Hernandezthe Inter fan Thuram and the Juventus player Rabiot, who came out in the 71st minute (Camavinga in his place). On the other side of the field the Bolognese starts Posch while the match begins in the 59th minute Arnautovic, who replaced Gregoritsch, preferred by Rangnick at the start of the race. On Friday 21 June at 6pm, Austria will challenge Poland in an in-or-out match at the Olympiastadion in Berlin while at 9pm France will face the Netherlands at the Red Bull Arena in Leipzig.
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France had the first opportunity of the match, after less than ten minutes, with the counterattack that released Mbappé on the left, quick to enter the area and kick to the near post but was saved by Pentz. Deschamps’ team appears extremely fast in exchanges and transitions, but with little effectiveness in front of goal, faced with an orderly and aggressive Austria. The Austrians, in fact, showed themselves dangerously in the 36th minute, on Gregoritsch’s serve for Sabitzer, who acrobatically put Baumgartner in front of Maignan, who did well to block from two steps with his feet. However, two minutes pass and it is France who breaks the deadlock, with Mbappé’s acceleration on the right who passes Mwene with a double step and puts the ball deflected by Wober into his own goal into the area.
French advantage but overall balanced first half, which could however vanish in the 55th minute, with Mbappénon’s open field escape, but lucid face to face with Pentz in framing the goal. Sensational opportunity for the second goal for Les Bleus, who continued to push and in the 68th minute they came close to scoring again with a cross-court pass from Thuram again saved in a dive by Pentz. France unable to definitively close the game, in a final made up of several interruptions that lead to nine minutes of injury time granted by the direction of Gil Manzano, at the end of which it was Deschamps’ team that came out on top.
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