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Former Arsenal Striker, Olivier Giroud who scored a brace for France with an Australian defender.
Defending world football champions, Les Bleus of France survived a first-round scare from the Kangaroos of Australia in a group D match played in Qatar on Tuesday night rallying back to a 4-1 victory.
The Kangaroos fired a Saudi Arabia like warning in the 9th minute when Craig Goodwin collected a Matthew Leckie assist to score a brilliant goal that sent shivers down the spines of the French team and all football lovers across the world.
Unmarked Adrien Rabiot collected a pass from Theo Hernandez in the six-yard box and slammed in the equalizer in the 27th minute.
Former Arsenal Striker, Olivier Giroud scored a brace for France in the 32nd minute through Rabiot assist and also in the 71st minute from a powerful header when a telegraphic pass from Mbappe went beeping on air.
France combinations were beautiful tiki taka touches in football which made a cross pass from Ousmane Dembele to aerially connect Kylian Mbappe’s bullet header in the 68th minute which came as France’s 3rd goal.
France tops group D table with 3 points while Tunisia and Denmark share a point each leaving Australia with no point.
France ranked 4th are making the 16th appearance were world champions in 1998 and 2018; runners-up in 2006 and bronze medalists in 1958 and 1986 as well as 4th place in 1982 and 2014.
Australia ranked 38 are making their 6th appearance and their best performance was a round of 16 in 2006.
Tunisia will meet Australia at 11am on Saturday and France will face Denmark at 5pm in the second-round matches of Group D.
Tomorrow Wednesday, German machines will play the Japanese toy experts at 2pm in group E just as Spain clashes with Costa Rica at 5pm also in group E.
Group F will come up at 11am when Morocco will play Croatia and Belgium will square up with Canada at 8pm.
Eniola Olatunji reporting.
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