France won solidly and advances to the Euro Cup

France, runner-up of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, with its star kylian mbappe as a starter, beat Ireland today by 2-0, at home, at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, extended their distance in the lead and remains undefeated in Group B of the Qualifiers for the Euro Cup after this match for the 5th. date.

The midfielder of Real Madrid, from Spain, Aurelian Tchouameniput France ahead 18 minutes into the first half, with the goal he scored with his left foot from outside the area, which put the ball into the right post of the rival goal.

Then, 3 minutes into the second half, the entered forward Marcus Thuram -Inter Milan, Italy-, took advantage of a rebound in the area and finished high, to score the second goal for the French national team.

The French team, clearly dominating the match, came out from the beginning to pressure Ireland, who counteracted this approach with some counterattack or set piece play to disturb the goal defended by Mike Maignan.

The top scorer in the history of the French national team with 53 goals, the forward Olivier Giroudwho plays for Milan, Italy, left injured 27 minutes into the first half and was replaced by his compatriot Thuram, author of the second goal.

The fifth victory in a row keeps France at a great distance with 15 points as the leader of Group B, 9 behind its immediate followers, the Netherlands and Greece (both with 6), while Ireland is second to last with 3 units.

Netherlands in turn he thrashed Greece by 3 to 0, at home, at the Philips stadium, in Eindhoven. Marten de Roon, Cody Gakpo and Wout Weghorst (recipient of the phrase “go there, fool”, which he addressed to Lionel Messi in the World Cup in Qatar), scored for the Dutch.

The result placed Netherlandsalong with Greece, both with 6 points, as escorts of the leader France.

Euro 2024 will take place in Germany (so its team does not participate in the Qualifiers because it is the organizing country and is already classified), between the months of June and July of next year.

The other results

• B Group: France 2 – Ireland 0 and Netherlands 3 – Greece 0.
• Group E: Poland 2 (two from Robert Lewandowski) – Faroe Islands 0 and Czech Republic 1 (Vaclav Cerny) – Albania 1 (Mirlind Bajrami).
• Group G: Lithuania 2 (Gytis Paulaskas and Fedor Cernych) – Montenegro 2 (Nikola Krstovic and Stefan Savic) and Serbia 1 (Attila Szalai -against) – Hungary 2 (Barnabas Varga and Willi Orban).
• Group H: Kazakhstan 0 – Finland 1 (Oliver Antman); Denmark 4 (Pierre Emile Hojbjerg, Joakim Maehle, Jonas Wind and Morten Hjulmand) – San Marino 0 and Slovenia 4 (two from Andraz Sporar, Petar Stojanovic, Benjamín Sesko and ) – Northern Ireland 2 (Isaak Price and Jonny Evans).

Tomorrow the fifth date of the Euro Cup Qualifiers will close with the following matches:

• Group A: at 1:00 p.m. (Argentine time), Georgia-Spain and at 3:45 p.m., Cyprus-Scotland.
• Group D: at 15:45, Croatia-Latvia and Türkiye-Armenia.

positions

• Group A: Scotland 12 points; Georgia and Norway 4; Spain 3; and Cyprus 0.
• B Group: France 15 points; Netherlands and Greece 6; Ireland 3; and Gibraltar 0.
• Group C: England 12 points; Ukraine 6; Italy and Macedonia 3; and Malta 0.
• Group D: Türkiye 9 points; Armenia 6; Croatia and Wales 4; and Latvia 0.
• Group E: Czech Republic 8 points; Albania 7; Moldova 5; Poland 3; and Faroe Islands 1.
• Group F: Austria 10 points; Belgium 7; Sweden 3; Estonia and Azerbaijan 1.
• Group G; Hungary 10 points; Serbia 7; Montenegro 5; Lithuania and Bulgaria 2.
• Group H: Finland 12 points; Denmark and Slovenia 10; Kazakhstan 9; Northern Ireland 3; and San Marino 0.