🤯 Never happened before! France have already made unwanted history | OneFootball

France are currently making a fool of themselves in the World Cup third-place playoff — and it is already a humiliation of historic proportions. 

Today’s match for third place was not exactly one either team had been looking forward to after their respective bitter semi-final disappointments. 

For one team, however, the match turned into an absolute historic nightmare as early as the first half. 

France conceded their first goals as early as the 3rd and 16th minutes. According to ‘StatsduFoot’, it is the first time in the history of the French national team that they have conceded twice in the opening 20 minutes of a World Cup match.

The last time France were 2-0 down after 20 minutes at all was against Romania in 2008, and the last time they conceded at least two goals in back-to-back World Cup matches was at the tournament 16 years ago. 

But, as we now know, it got even worse. Before half-time, Saka added two more goals. That is bound to hurt. It is the very first time ever that France have conceded at least four goals in the first half of a major tournament match.

The French stars’ (non-)performance was heavily criticised at the break. We are curious to see whether they can pull themselves together. Right now, it at least looks a little like they might. Mbappé got France’s first goal of the night early in the second half to make it 1-4, and Barcola made it 2-4 shortly afterwards (54th minute). 

What do you make of the game so far? Write it in the comments!

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.

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