Defending champions France have knocked England out of the World Cup in Qatar with a 2-1 victory at Al Bayt Stadium.
France took the lead within the seventeenth minute when Aurelien Tchouameni’s thumping shot from outdoors the put up beat English goalie Jordan Pickford.
The match remained comparatively even between the edges till early within the second half, when England ahead Bukayo Saka was introduced down within the French field. Captain Harry Kane stepped up, and his highly effective conversion drew the sport degree within the 54th minute.
Either side then fought tooth-and-nail to take the lead, with a number of shut misses, together with a bar-kissing header from England centre-back Harry Maguire.
Nevertheless it was Olivier Giroud, France’s document goalscorer, who scored the decisive to objective within the 78th minute to present Les Blues the lead with a header.
Kane had an opportunity to equalise shortly after when England received a second penalty, however he blasted the ball effectively over the bar within the 84th minute.
Regardless of a number of different possibilities and a last-moment free-kick from simply outdoors the penalty space that noticed Marcus Rashford unable to transform, France despatched England house empty-handed, with the reigning champions transferring on to face Morocco on Wednesday.