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00:00Teams who have upset some of the more prominent teams, in this case for Iraq, this is the reason
00:06you come to the World Cup. You come to play against the best, where success is not just
00:10measured by a result, by what you can do in the game, right? This is a great experience for them.
00:17On the other side, you have France, a France team that has done a lot, right? And a team that's
00:23not
00:23going to look past this Iraq team, a team that's well put together, a team that's been to two
00:28finals already, and they understand this game. They understand in order to be superior,
00:34they have to lead the way by playing fast.
00:44The flags unfurl onto this beautiful field.
00:51And the fans all around this stadium stand by for the entrance of the two teams.
01:06Rested in the middle, Manoukouni slots in, and after scoring against Senegal as a substitute,
01:11Bradley Barkala gets a start in place of Desiree Douai. Kylian Mbappe now four goals behind
01:16Leo Messi in the World Cup. Record scorer stakes, earns his 100th cap. The first France player
01:22to reach that mark before turning 30, and he's just 27.
01:26Khaled Qasim of Major League Soccer side Nashville starts, and Zidane Iqbal, who started in the
01:32Manchester United Academy, boosts the centre. Ali Alhamadi is on the bench tonight.
01:43Couple of goals in the opener against Senegal, and another landmark tonight for Kylian Mbappe.
01:48Well, he bows out. After 14 years in the job, at the end of this tournament,
01:52is Didier Deschamps about to take France all the way again.
02:03Four years ago, Graham Arnold was in charge of Australia when they faced France at the World Cup.
02:09They briefly led them as well.
02:11Five, four, three, two, one.
02:22Away we go in Philadelphia.
02:26And the ball immediately sent behind by Iraq.
02:30Three goals, three points on match day one for Le Bleu.
02:33And the chance for France to get a ball into the box.
02:36Dina there, and that's Hashim Akam with a clearance away.
02:40And then it's Loli wide.
02:43Kone coming up.
02:49Yeah, this is a good deep ball behind the Iraq defence in the clearance.
02:55Kone wins the second ball, gets into the box and gets that shot.
02:59And Mbappe almost gets on the end of this one.
03:01Started on the right, they've sent Lise underneath.
03:05But that's something that can change throughout the game.
03:11Zoski will win the game's first free kick.
03:20Yes, um, Lise and Dembele will be interchangeable.
03:24Sometimes one sits behind Mbappe.
03:26Secured qualification to this World Cup.
03:31It's on from Bayesh, it's cleared away.
03:37Dean.
03:40And space for Mbappe.
03:45And that will be an early yellow card for Alamari.
03:54Yeah, sticks his foot in there and stops a dangerous play.
04:07Deep from the free kick and there's a tumble in the box.
04:15It was Saliba who went down.
04:22Here is Lise.
04:24And he swings it wide.
04:26And they were looking for Mbappe and Dembele arriving in the middle as well.
04:30And it is turned behind.
04:31And we have the game's first corner.
04:34And France is slowly starting to find that space behind.
04:40And if you're France, that's what you want to do at this point.
04:42You want to have Iraq facing their own goal.
04:45Pulling them out a little bit and then finding those spaces right behind.
04:55Dean.
04:57Touched away.
04:58Only as far as the edge of the box.
04:59And Alise and then that's Mbappe having a swing and sending it behind.
05:11And France starting to insist a little bit more now.
05:14They're starting to create the chances really early.
05:17They started faster than the last match.
05:27They're too far back at this time.
05:29They have to take advantage of the times the ball goes out.
05:31They have to step out as a unit.
05:34Try to put a little bit more pressure on the ball in the center of the field.
05:40Mbappe.
05:43Dembele leaves it.
05:44Alise likes it on that left foot.
05:46Let's see what he was planning.
05:47It was an important block.
05:49Alamari.
06:01See the interchanging of the French players as well.
06:04Mbappe hits it.
06:06Oh, what a strike.
06:18He said yesterday we are writing the pages of history here while he's blazing a trail of
06:24his own.
06:24The general leading from the front in front of his father and France lead in Philadelphia.
06:42And what a goal this is, Tony.
06:45Here's Mbappe dribbling inside and just finds that far post with a bullet shot that was in
06:52the goal before the goalkeeper can go anywhere near.
06:56It was coming.
06:58And there it is.
06:59And Mbappe makes it 1-0.
07:08On the occasion of his 100th cap for France, that's still the age of 27.
07:15His father, Wilfred, is in the crowd today.
07:18What a proud moment.
07:18Get an opponent and you know that they're ready for more.
07:21And I think that's what they'll be looking for.
07:24As we see Mbappe's goal for the far post, an absolute bullet that he hits with the instep.
07:29There's no curve on this.
07:30It just goes straight.
07:32This is just a rocket of a shot that goes to the far post.
07:41Ahmed, Basil saying somebody's got to shut him down a little bit quicker.
07:44You can't give him that time.
07:49And under Alamari's leg on the way through.
07:54Under its cap.
07:56So that he could step into midfield and be involved a little bit more.
07:59Now he's left alone at the top.
08:02And it's not easy.
08:04And they were looking for him again there.
08:06Three and away by Alamari.
08:10Yeah, the other thing about Mbappe is he's normally a guy for Act 2 or the Encore.
08:16His last 13 World Cup goals prior to today had all come in the second half and beyond.
08:24So he started early and that is a worrying sign for this Iraqi team.
08:34And the wave has started early inside the stadium too as Rabiot gives away the free throw for Meccano.
08:41Now Dembele lifted in and they were looking for Mbappe.
08:47Behind it goes.
08:48It's a goal kick.
08:52Yeah, I think Mbappe is looking for the call there.
08:54But it didn't seem to be anything more than a shoulder-to-shoulder.
09:00Advantage of that by tactically trying to move the lines a little bit higher.
09:07Bayes.
09:12Helps left for Dosky who can deliver a good ball and he does so there.
09:16And they got the header in at the far post and they win the corner.
09:27Which has been reversed, I believe.
09:29It's a goal kick.
09:31This is great service by Dosky and, you know, this is what he does.
09:34He gets up and down the line if there's a little bit more time where Iraq can hold possession.
09:41You can see a little bit more zip on the surface as well now, couldn't we, as we'll get an
09:45impromptu watering of the field.
09:49Barcala, he's got a lice to one side.
09:51He goes alone for now.
09:53And then it is whacked away by Dosky.
09:59That was a good run by Barcala straight up the middle.
10:02It seemed like he had a little opening to take a shot himself.
10:05As well, where also the hockey, ice hockey team plays.
10:08I can look away to my left.
10:10I can see downtown Philadelphia.
10:14And it's shrouded in clouds at the moment.
10:22Bayes.
10:25Uncomfortable.
10:26No foul.
10:28Lice.
10:30Runs into trouble.
10:31Won by Zayed Ismail.
10:33Oh, and then they'll have a go from distance.
10:35He'll try anything tonight, why not?
10:37He's in that kind of frame of mind.
10:41And what a good idea from Mbappe there.
10:48Goes down as another shot off target.
10:50And the only shot on target of the game so far is the goal that is the difference between the
10:55two teams.
10:57And then Mbappe.
11:00The 15th at World Cup.
11:02The rain's got a little heavier now.
11:25Iqbal gets a talking to.
11:26No more.
11:29Through the summer.
11:30Can generally clear quite quickly when you get a downpour like this and blow through.
11:36So they're worried it might follow through to New York tonight.
11:39Here's Mbappe.
11:39All the way through again.
11:41He's still got it.
11:42It seems just glued to his boots.
11:46And Iraq win the free kick.
11:55And here's Mbappe with a great turn.
11:57Leaves two defenders behind.
12:00And one of them just gets a little toe on it.
12:03And prevents Mbappe from getting the shot off with the inside of the foot.
12:06He was lining it up for a inside of the foot to the far post.
12:16We'll have four minutes of added time at the end of this first half.
12:20And I imagine they're going to hope that during the half-time break this weather system can move through.
12:52We'll have four minutes of added time at the end of this first half.
13:13And if you're friends here, these are the little things that you're worried about.
13:19As we see the fans having fun and creating those experiences.
13:24The rain makes it better.
13:25They'll use anything to stay dry.
13:26There's the ponchos that have been handed out.
13:28Yep, you're on camera.
13:37Now then.
13:39On the free kick.
13:40What could Iraq do here?
13:41A first half where they've been so much on the back foot.
13:44And yet they only trail by a goal to nil.
13:48Amir Alamari stands over the free kick.
13:51Sends it deep.
13:58That's going to be a big positive with a go in at half-time, isn't it?
14:01Three minutes of additional time.
14:03And for all the control the French have exerted on the game, it's only the one goal.
14:11And that's what I was going to say on that free kick.
14:13It's exactly what you want.
14:15You're in the game.
14:16You're one play from getting a point here.
14:19And if you're Iraq, that's what you're looking for.
14:21You're hanging in there.
14:22And any one play, any one set piece can get you back in the game.
14:37Iqbal sending it wide.
14:40Hussein Ali is over there.
14:41Can't control it, though.
15:03And there it is.
15:07On the evening of his 100th cap for France, Kylian Mbappe's goal is the difference
15:12as the two teams head to the dressing rooms amid some fierce rain
15:16here at the Philadelphia Stadium.
15:20The half-time score is France 1, Iraq 0.
15:36We thought we might never get there, but we will.
15:39Here we go.
15:51So the second half is underway after a 130-minute break between proceedings.
16:00France kicking us off in the second half, playing from right to left
16:03and leading through Kylian Mbappe's goal, his 15th at the World Cup.
16:09France is the record goal-scorer of this competition.
16:13And he continues to keep Leo Messi in his sights.
16:17For Iraq, who were forced into a substitution in the first half,
16:21losing their talismanic striker, Ayman Hussein.
16:24The big positive for them, Tab, will have been that,
16:28despite the dominance of France in many aspects of the game in the first half,
16:32it is just a solitary goal that they lead by.
16:36Yeah, in general, this is, it's on a plate for Mbappe,
16:40and he scores his second of the night.
16:43We don't see the best of Sadio Mane in that opening game against France.
16:48He'll be determined to play a bigger part right here tonight.
16:53Deja vu for Iraq from their first game, a mix-up at the back,
16:58a goalkeeper left, holding his hands out.
17:03And a deadly striker celebrating again.
17:07France 2, Iraq 0.
17:24And here we see the goal kick from Zahid,
17:27and he misses.
17:28The ball goes directly to Dembele,
17:30who finds Mbappe all alone in front of the goal.
17:33I mean, if you're going to give the ball away,
17:35these are not the two guys to give the ball away to.
17:38Unfortunate here for Iraq,
17:39because it looked like they were finally,
17:42finally getting a little bit more comfortable in this game,
17:45and now they're behind 2-0.
17:49An absolute gift.
17:5116th World Cup goal for Mbappe.
18:01And he continues his trade of
18:04being a prolific World Cup goal scorer
18:07in the second half of matches.
18:09He's not had too many easier.
18:11I was just getting into the talk about Dembele,
18:13and in the press conference yesterday,
18:15so much was about him.
18:17It was about what his role in the team should be,
18:19where he could be best deployed.
18:21Well, he showed what his best role there was.
18:24I'll hand it to you, Kylian.
18:25Put it away.
18:26For sure, how unselfish that was.
18:28And I think we've seen more than
18:29a couple of times already in this match alone,
18:32how unselfish these attackers for France really are.
18:36Because they have so much skill,
18:37they take people on,
18:38they have a shot,
18:39and they usually choose to pass
18:41to a better place teammate.
18:43Rabiot now,
18:44are the French really going to get going?
18:49That would be a blow,
18:51because he is very important to their attack series,
18:54and he's tireless,
18:55gets forward all day long.
18:59Marcus Holgren-Hederson.
19:01Win tonight,
19:02and his team are into the round of 32.
19:06Serie A with Torino.
19:08No, he do not.
19:09But this French team now,
19:11with the two goal lead,
19:12starting to show even more their quality.
19:15It's been a fairly quiet stop.
19:16Round on a slick surface.
19:18This is their best attack by some distance.
19:19Lovely control.
19:20Runners either side.
19:22Picks out Alise.
19:24And they're getting a lot of bodies forward.
19:27Cut back.
19:27It bounces up on him,
19:29Odegaard,
19:29but he's in the middle of a technician.
19:31And then it was put wide on the follow-up
19:34by Rabiot.
19:41And here's Mbappe's play.
19:43Gets around the defender
19:44and lays it nice and easy
19:47for Alise to just chip the goalkeeper
19:49to the far post.
19:51But he finds the crossbar.
19:53And here's Alise taking his man on.
19:57But a little touch on the way through,
20:00so another corner,
20:01which is taken quickly.
20:03Alise.
20:05Dembele on the turn.
20:06Still got it.
20:07Side netting.
20:09Shmaila Sarr,
20:10that's a good ball.
20:12And Kamara had kept on running into the box.
20:15Some big stars in the crowd tonight.
20:17There's Colin Gillespie
20:18of the Phoenix Suns NBA team.
20:22Alise.
20:24Shmaila Sarr can't reel it in.
20:27So let's go and fetch.
20:30Dembele bounced one down off the clouds.
20:32Alise.
20:34Dembele, great finish.
20:36Great goal.
20:51They want to know where exactly he fits
20:55in this French group.
20:57We're getting the answer.
20:58Alise.
21:02Ousmane Dembele.
21:05Slotting it into the corner.
21:07And France now cruising.
21:10A magnificent sight.
21:12They're such a friendly bunch as well.
21:14They are, in a sense,
21:16the epitome of what the world has been wrong.
21:17So little for this team to score.
21:20What's the turn here from Alise?
21:22Immediately finds the feet hard
21:24of Dembele,
21:25who makes an excellent control
21:26with the right foot
21:27and puts it away
21:28and puts it away
21:28to the far post.
21:37Well, for many of us,
21:38hydration is the last thing we need.
21:40It's his last contribution
21:42because he's going to come out of the game.
21:43Dewey and Keiakia coming in.
21:47Assaulted the New York,
21:48New Jersey area today.
21:50This will be the rain is set.
21:52Fairly light at the moment.
21:54And Shah and Fahji
21:55look like they're going to come on for Iraq.
21:58That is doing quite so well.
22:00We'll welcome the break.
22:02Dembele departs having scored
22:04his first goal in the World Cup.
22:06They haven't hit the straps just yet.
22:07They had the overguard chance.
22:08But this Senegal team
22:10have looked more comfortable in the skid.
22:12Look more capable of creating chances.
22:14Of course, that Christopher Ayer-Header
22:17early on.
22:18Marshal to replace him.
22:21Well, it was a fantastic save for Mendy.
22:28He's in Norway.
22:32Fahji who came into the game
22:33against Norway, incidentally.
22:36We'll replace Bayes.
22:40Yeah, definitely.
22:42Maybe he's finishing his strongest point.
22:44And that was where a whole new generation
22:46of France talent would start to be picked up.
22:49Haaland, how did it touch?
22:51He's through, squares it, and
22:53in the end,
22:54Hashim Akam sends it behind for a corner.
22:57With thrust and to great effect
22:58to go eyeball to eyeball.
23:01And Jenae Martin-Ordegaard
23:03at very close quarters.
23:06Well, they've had the three best chances
23:08of this first half.
23:12Dean.
23:12I said about his finishing abilities,
23:15Odegaard.
23:15He's had an up and down season.
23:17Mendy, who is about to come out of the game.
23:21Top goalkeeping.
23:22But really.
23:23Mbappe.
23:23Should have buried it, shouldn't he?
23:25And there's an offside flag.
23:27As far as possible.
23:27To escape.
23:28He also dropped in the...
23:29He knows one day
23:31North America might be a destination
23:33for him in his playing career.
23:35He actually revealed that
23:37a certain David Beckham
23:39is already asking him about that.
23:45Might be another to follow one day
23:47in the footsteps of
23:49Messi and co.
23:50And
23:52make Miami home.
23:54They've scored 11 World Cup goals
23:56in the history of the first half.
23:57But I think he's got a few things to do first.
23:59He's spending to do now.
24:03And a few new managers
24:04to impress as well.
24:07By Berger.
24:09Haaland made the important contact.
24:11Looses onto it.
24:12Koulibaly wanted it back.
24:13Astrid keeps it moving.
24:15Odegaard can look.
24:16Solot is wide.
24:17Haaland through the middle.
24:18Nothing more than to have success there
24:19as well as a team.
24:21Alexander Solot
24:23is queued rather curiously.
24:27You know, that just
24:29exemplifies the fact that
24:31playing on one of the flags.
24:33I wonder if Graham Arnold
24:34is any closer to sorting out
24:35his goalkeeper dilemma.
24:38Made a change tonight
24:39and effectively gave away
24:41a very similar type of goal.
24:43He'd be in the middle.
24:43He did score 20 times
24:45for Atletico Madrid last season.
24:46He's a very handy striker
24:48in his own right.
24:51Odmir Klotty with a poor clearance.
24:54And Mendy can't keep that one out.
24:58And Norway have found a way through
25:01Marcus Holmgren-Pedersen.
25:04Dean Shortfall, Mbappe
25:06for the one-two
25:07and it was Zimbabwe who got to touch in.
25:11Andrews himself a striking Viking.
25:14I have to say how good
25:16Kone has been in this game.
25:18He has recovered every second.
25:21Over the top
25:22and it was instinctively hit
25:24by Mbappe who's looking
25:26at the linesman,
25:27the assistant on the far side.
25:28I think he wondered
25:29whether he would have been offside
25:30but he never got a flag.
25:45Still banging the drum
25:46behind the goal.
25:47The Iraqi supporters
25:48inside the stadium.
25:49They were enjoying themselves
25:51in the rainbreak as well.
25:52They went out on the concourses.
25:53They were having a real good
25:54sing song out there.
25:56And everybody came back in
25:58after the rain delay.
26:00Another huge crowd
26:01in Philadelphia tonight.
26:03Two huge errors
26:05for Senegal.
26:10And a hugely uplifting moment.
26:13Again, no foul.
26:14Shah turned into his man.
26:17And at the other end
26:18looking to counter.
26:21He scored just once
26:22in more than 30 games
26:23for Torino in Serie A.
26:27And at the expense
26:28of a crestfallen Koulibaly.
26:31That's right.
26:31Iraq's fate
26:33wouldn't be decided
26:34by this game this evening
26:36when it kicked off.
26:37This is Mbappe.
26:38Can he do one more?
26:39He gets away.
26:41He's on his left
26:42and he fires it wide
26:44for the hat-trick beckoning.
26:46Beat it by Gay.
26:52We talked about
26:53there's always another gear
26:54and I think here's
26:56all the gears
26:57and Mbappe turns it on
26:58goes full speed
26:59blows by two defenders
27:00but his left footer shot
27:02goes wide
27:03and he tried to find
27:12but he's had
27:14the Midas touch tonight.
27:17That was his first goal.
27:22on his 100th cap
27:24he was presented with
27:25his second
27:28early in the second half.
27:29What a hot streak
27:30Mbappe's on
27:32for his country.
27:37And Messi may be
27:38the World Cup
27:39record goalscorer
27:40for now
27:41but 27-year-old
27:43Kylian Mbappe
27:45has
27:47got time on his side
27:48when it comes to that battle.
27:50He was asked
27:52by the media
27:53well who's the best
27:54out of you
27:56and out of
27:58the likes of Kane
27:59Cristiano Ronaldo
28:02and he
28:03was unflinching
28:05Messi
28:06straight away.
28:16Information that
28:17Marcus Turam is on.
28:48does well
28:49and Turam was in there
28:50and
28:51his professional life.
28:52Tulaka was there
28:53to head it away
28:54and with that
28:55Drew Fischer
28:56blows his whistle
28:57Didier Deschamps
28:59and France
29:01with a resounding victory
29:03in Philadelphia
29:04and on his
29:04100th cap
29:06for his country
29:09captain Kylian Mbappe
29:10with a brace
29:12Graham Arnold
29:13Sirac
29:14well beaten
29:15on the night
29:15Mbappe Senior
29:17can wave
29:18to Mbappe Junior
29:19his World Cup
29:21odyssey continues.
29:22France
29:22are in
29:23to the last
29:2432 of this
29:25FIFA World Cup
29:27and on a night
29:28delayed by
29:29some inclement weather
29:31there was never any doubt
29:32over the scoreline
29:33and the victors
29:34France 3
29:35Iraq 0
29:51while his first goal
29:52was special
29:54his second goal
29:54was rather
29:55gifted to him
29:56but Mbappe
29:57and Mbappe
29:57and Mbappe
29:59and Mbappe
29:59and Mbappe
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