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The Guardian·about 18 hours ago

Football Daily | Spain leave France at sixes and sevens as L’Équipe dish out the twos

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For a second there, it felt as if this was going to be a rerun for France of the Human Rights World Cup final.

Conceding a penalty at the end of the first quarter and looking lost for most of the game, Les Bleus would eventually click.

Kylian Mbappé would lock into PlayStation mode, thundering down the left-hand side before cutting in to erase the two-goal deficit.

It would be another game for the ages, going beyond normal time – but Luis de la Fuente’s lads weren’t keen on any drama.

In reality, Spain put on a suffocating display of control, even if there was little between the two sides in terms of possession.

France, the great entertainers of this Geopolitics World Cup, are off home … though not before a jaunt to Miami for the bronze medal game.

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Sources: The Guardian

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