The French national team beat Poland 3-1 this Sunday, with a historic goal from Olivier Giroud and a double from Kylian Mbappé, the Qatar 2022 World Cup striker with five, and advanced to the quarterfinals of the tournament.
The experienced 36-year-old striker opened the scoring after 44 minutes of the first half, while Mbappé, author of the assist in the first half, sealed the triumph of the reigning champion with two great goals at 29 and 45 minutes of the second half .
Giroud became the defending world champion’s top scorer with 52 goals, after beating Thierry Henry by one.
And the French star is the scorer of the Qatar 2022 World Cup with five goals, in addition to establishing himself as a figure in the match played at the Al Thumama stadium.
The discount for Poland was in the ninth minute of injury through Robert Lewandowski, from a penalty, who said goodbye to the World Cup with two goals and a lackluster performance as part of a team, which was left great by the instance.
In the first instance, the Barcelona striker had missed the penalty, but the Venezuelan referee Jesús Valenzuela repeated it by overtaking goalkeeper Hugo Lloris and on the second opportunity, the scorer did not fail to decorate the result.
France entered the quarterfinals with authority and awaits the rival that will leave England-Senegal to be played from 4:00 p.m. at the Al Bayt stadium.
The world champion in Russia 2018 took another step towards defending the title and confirmed his candidacy with a convincing victory.
After the setback against Tunisia (0-1) on the last date of group D with an alternative team, coach Didier Deschamps once again used the usual starters and saved a suffering passage, just before Giroud’s goal, he was vastly superior to Poland.
The third match corresponding to the round of 16 was played at the Al Thumama stadium and included the Argentine Mauro Vigliano as part of the VAR team, being the first assistant of the Venezuelan Juan Soto.
The development had France as the clear dominator, who exhibited several clear scoring situations to open the scoring, but only achieved it towards the end of the first half through Giroud.
In the 44th minute, the center forward received a great pass from Mbappé and when he came face to face with Szczesny he finished with his weaker leg with a cross shot.
A few minutes before, at 38m, captain Hugo Lloris had an important intervention after a shot by Piotr Zielinski and on the rebound Raphael Varane saved it on the line after a shot by Jakub Kaminski.
That was the only moment in the game when Poland embarrassed France and raised any doubts about the course of the game.
The opening of the scoring just before halftime was decisive for the subsequent development of the game. And in the second part the figure of Mbappé emerged in all his splendor to finish the story.
The 23-year-old striker took two tremendous right hands from the left sector of the attack, one to the middle and another to the angle that left goalkeeper Szczesny without a chance.
At the end, Lewandowski had a consolation with a penalty charged at the request of the VAR for a hand from Upamecano.
The first attempt of Poland’s 9 was saved by Lloris and the story of the debut against Mexico was repeated with the missed penalty against Guillermo “Memo” Ochoa.
However, the referee decided to repeat the execution in advance and the winner of The Best of FIFA was able to say goodbye to the World Cup with two celebrations.
Despite the significant casualties suffered before and during the World Cup, France assumes the candidacy and advances steadily in Qatar 2022 with an unstoppable and goalscoring Mbappé but with a team that pushes him from behind.
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