Mbappé’s great failure and France’s victory, Photo: Reuters
France did its job in the premiere, defeated Austria 1:0; The impression of the mighty “tricolors” was not spoiled by the fact that the only goal in the victory over Austria was actually an own goal.
Didier Deschan doesn’t care, three points are three points in the group that opened yesterday with the Netherlands’ victory over Poland.
The French are the favorites for first place and tonight they needed a cheerful Kylian Mbappé for a more confident performance.
They didn’t have it, at least not in understanding, because it was the new Real Madrid striker who wasted France’s two best chances against Austria.
The first came in the 9th minute, when goalkeeper Patrik Penc had an excellent reaction to the near post, and the second at the beginning of the second half, much better.
Then the best footballer in the world leaned towards the goal, ran almost 50 meters towards Penac and then… when a routine performance was expected: he shot beyond the post.
Mbappé is still waiting for his first goal in the Euro Cup…
The clumsy Maximilian Weber made the job easier for Dešan’s team in the 38th minuteand later Gilles Kunde and Markus Tiram could score.
They didn’t hit the net either, but Austria, however uncomfortable they were, was far from equalizing. They had a chance at 0:0, but Mike Menjan reacted brilliantly to Christoph Baumgartner’s chance.
Everything before and after that, especially in the second half, revolved around France.
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