England v France LIVE: Three Lions cling on to win thrilling 10-goal World Cup bronze final | OneFootball

England held on at the end to beat France 6-4 in a ludicrous World Cup 2026 bronze final in Miami, having almost squandered a four-goal lead before falling over the line in Miami

The game that nobody wants to play saw the Three Lions brush off Argentina’s heartbreaking late show in Atlanta on Wednesday as they roared into a 4-0 first-half lead. Declan Rice rifled home a long-range stunner with just three minutes on the clock before Ezri Konsa nodded in Rice’s corner on 18 minutes and Bukayo Saka bagged two goals in the final eight minutes of the first half to seemingly wrap things up.

But after presumably being given a half-time rocket by departing coach Didier Deschamps – in his final game after 14 years at the helm – Les Bleus came out firing after the break as Kylian Mbappe slotted home to take the lead in his hard-fought Golden Boot battle with Lionel Messi, Bradley Barcola narrowed the gap to 4-2 before the hour mark and Mbappe then became the World Cup’s all-time top scorer with his second goal on 67 minutes to move France just a goal behind.

Saka converted an 86th-minute penalty to complete his hat-trick, yet Ousmane Dembele’s injury-time effort made it 5-4 and gave Les Bleus a couple of minutes to find an equaliser. However, they were finally finished off once and for all when Jude Bellingham danced through the defence and dummied his way to a sixth England goal as the Three Lions won a World Cup third-place playoff for the first time in their history.