The world champions ensured their start in this 2022 edition. After a very complicated start to the match, the Blues quickly accelerated to finally win 4-1 against the Australians.
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Everything seemed like a disaster scenario at the start of the match.
The Australians score from the outset through Craig Goodwin (9th).
The double penalty for the Blues since Lucas Hernandez is injured on this same action and is forced to leave his place to his brother Theo.
Giroud in history
A forced change, but which nevertheless changed the whole face of this match.
After the opener, the French struggled for a few minutes, before passing the second.
It was Adrien Rabiot who allowed the French to equalize (27th) on a superb cross from Theo Hernandez.
A few minutes later, Olivier Giroud scored the goal that took the lead (33').
In the second period, the French purr when they return from the locker room but everything will change in a few minutes on the hour mark. The inevitable Kylian Mbappé offers his goal (67th), before Olivier Giroud achieves the double.
He now has 51 goals with the France team and joins Thierry Henry at the top of the ranking of the best French scorers.
After this huge 4-1 success against Australia, the France team took the lead in group D alone and took advantage of the draw between Denmark and Tunisia (0-0).
The injury of Lucas Hernandez at the start of the match, the only black point of the meeting for the French.
World Cup: strong images of France-Australia
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