The France team won at the Parc des Princes on Thursday evening against Ireland (2-0), as part of qualifying for Euro 2024. Marcus Thuram scored his first goal for the Blues. Olivier Giroud came out injured.
A little more than five months after going to win in Ireland (0-1), the France team returned the cover Thursday evening against the same opponent, still as part of the qualifiers for Euro 2024. This time hosts of the meeting, the Blues won easily on the lawn of the Parc des Princes. The score (2-0) could however have been much more severe for the visitors if the French had been a little more sharp and precise offensively.
For their reunion after the summer, the men of Didier Deschamps left no chance to their visitors of the day. Very largely dominating from the first period (61% possession), they did not wait for the twentieth minute of play to open the scoring. Well served by the small ball set back from Kylian Mbappé, Aurélien Tchouaméni unleashed a jewel of rolled up right cross which came to clean the opposite small-net (1-0, 19th).
Only one in four shots on target
A hard blow however came to tarnish the first half hour tricolor since Olivier Giroud, hit in the left ankle, had to give way to Marcus Thuram (16th). The latter then took the time to get up to speed and doubled the mark for the Blues just after the restart (2-0, 48th). First goal in the France team for the son of Lilian Thuram. A goal celebrated as it should be with all of his partners who came to congratulate him.
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For the rest, the French therefore dominated the meeting head and shoulders. Four times more shots than their opponents in the evening (twenty-five), but one regret however on the famous success in the last gesture. With only five attempts on target (one out of four), the Habs will have enough to work in this sector. Kylian Mbappé will not have been as transcendent as usual, while Ousmane Dembélé was still absent in the last gesture.
From a strictly accounting point of view, the France team further consolidates its first place in Group B. With five victories in as many games, it now has a nine-point lead over the Netherlands (who have two games less ).
