كأس العالم 2022 World Cup Thread!

Australia's game plan is simple but effective: double up on Mbappe.

 

Poor defending.

 

Too easy.

 

Too easy

 

Normal service resumes.

 

Snap!

 

Was fun while it lasted.

 

Australia just need to get to HT and regroup at only one behind. If you're still in the game anything can happen - just ask Saudi Arabia.

 

Hmmm, not sure I'd be happy to see Kompany on pundit duty if I was a Burnley fan.

 

I was thinking that, maybe it’s just a temporary thing while the players are having a break?

 

I would have thought Burnley would only release him for the group stages at most.

 

Kompany on being asked if he’d take Ronaldo at Burnley:

“We need players who can run”

 

That would have been outrageous from Giroud.

 

Brilliant clearance off the line!

 

That's the game now.

 

France showing their class there, lovely goal

 

Mbappe is simply far, far too good for Australia. Put that on a plate for Giroud.

 

Mbappé is just incredible.

4-1

 

With the caveat of it only one round of games (and, indeed, only one day), France will be looking at the other three teams in their group and all four teams in the group they're paired with, and won't have been concerned by anything they've seen.

That said, I'm sure they'd prefer to not run into Argentina in the last 16 - a possibility which has arguably increased over the course of the day.

 

Yes, I guess they have.