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00:03You've been there, you've been a player, you've done this kind of thing.
00:06I mean, even now, the tension, the drama, epic at this World Cup.
00:11Kylian Mbappe now four goals behind Leo Messi in the World Cup record scorer's stakes.
00:16Earns his 100th cap, the first France player to reach that mark before.
00:21And Zidane Iqbal, who started in the Manchester United Academy, boosts the centre.
00:26Ali Alhamadi is on the bench tonight.
00:33Away we go in Philadelphia.
00:36And the ball immediately sent behind by Iraq.
00:40Three goals, three points on match day one for Le Bleu.
00:43And they're seeking a third straight World Cup final, remember.
00:46For Iraq, a defeat by a margin of three goals against Norway,
00:51but a performance in places which was seen as encouraging.
00:57France all in blue, playing from left to right.
01:02Early evening start here in Philadelphia.
01:06We did have a heavy storm blow through about three hours or so ago.
01:13We stay clear for now and keep a watchful eye on the forecast.
01:23Now the chance for France to get a ball into the box.
01:27Dino there and that's Hashim Akam with a clearance away.
01:30And then it's Rolly White.
01:34Kone coming up.
01:37Yeah, this is a good deep ball behind the Iraq defence and the clearance.
01:43Kone wins the second ball, gets it into the box and gets that shot.
01:46And Mbappe almost gets on the end of this one.
01:53Talks a lot about the connections.
01:55In Iraq, Tony, a team that's been showing us to play out of a 4-4-2 most of the
02:00time.
02:01Looks like it changed today.
02:02And they go to more of a 4-5-1, maybe to limit the middle of the field a little
02:06bit more
02:06and stop that possession that France uses to create.
02:19It's an important interception.
02:21Noticeable early.
02:22Perusmane Dembele appears to have started on the right.
02:25They've sent Ulisse underneath.
02:28But that's something that can change throughout the game.
02:34Djoski will win the game's first free kick.
02:43Yes, Ulisse and Dembele will be interchangeable.
02:47Sometimes one sits behind Mbappe, sometimes the other one does.
02:52And whoever's sitting behind the other player goes to the right side
02:55and plays that winger position, which both can play really well.
03:07I mentioned some of the frustration from the French media.
03:09And one of that was down to the first half performance of France against Senegal.
03:19Perusmane's challenge is a clean one.
03:24Four of the Iraqi starters currently play in the domestic league.
03:46It's comfortable to dictate play.
03:50Rabiot.
03:52Rabiot.
03:52This is Saliba.
03:55Hyundai's 50th cap out on the right.
04:05Containment at the moment for this Iraqi team.
04:12Dembele, that took a deflection.
04:14And then the defender got in the keeper's way.
04:16And Lisset pouncing.
04:19With Valciri.
04:23And Irak are going to try and push up a bit here because it's just going to come straight back
04:26at them.
04:27This is Manu Kone.
04:30They're too far back at this time.
04:32They have to take advantage of the times the ball goes out.
04:34They have to step out as a unit.
04:37Try to put a little bit more pressure on the ball in the center of the field.
04:43And Mbappe.
04:46Dembele leaves it.
04:47Lisset likes it on that left foot.
04:49Let's see what he was planning.
04:50It was an important block.
04:52Alamari.
05:04See the interchanging of the French players as well.
05:07Mbappe hits it.
05:09Oh, what a strike.
05:21He said yesterday, we are writing the pages of history here.
05:25Well, he's blazing a trail of his own.
05:28The general leading from the front in front of his father.
05:32And France lead in Philadelphia.
05:35Yeah.
05:45And what a goal this is, Tony.
05:48Here's Mbappe dribbling inside.
05:50And just finds that far post with a bullet shot that was in the goal.
05:56And I think that's exactly how we saw that game.
05:59I thought they were very competitive against Norway.
06:01They were in the game and trying to win the game for most of that time.
06:05Unfortunately, on the end, that fourth goal for Norway made it a score of a game we weren't really watching.
06:14Last kick of the game, really, wasn't it?
06:16The fourth goal went in.
06:18They go to Toronto after this to face Senegal, which could well prove to be a pivotal final game for
06:24the group phase for them.
06:26Their defeat against Norway was their heaviest at a World Cup.
06:28All of their 1986 losses, which, of course, is their only other appearance in the competition, were by a single
06:36goal.
06:51They say wins it back.
06:53He had a hat-trick against Northern Ireland in the last warm-up game.
06:57Dembele now taking it out.
07:21She's a calm, bringing it away.
07:31the Manchester born player he's in the Manchester United Academy at the time of
07:56these are Louis van Gaal we should say born in Manchester to Pakistani father and Iraqi mother
08:28another throw reminder Iraq burst into a substitution at the the 15th at World Cups the
08:35rain's got a little heavier now
08:58Iqbal gets a talking to no more
09:08we've got a referee in Drew Fisher who being domestically based in this country is more
09:12than used to these kind of monsoon type conditions you get through the summer can generally clear
09:19quite quickly when you get a downpour like this and blow through so worried it might pull it through
09:25to New York tonight here's Mbappe all the way through again he's still got it it seems just
09:30glued to his boots and Iraq win the free kick and here's Mbappe with a great turn leaves two
09:38defenders behind and one of them just gets a little toe on it
09:51Mbappe wins the free kick
10:07France ready for the whistle I think
10:11seems like they both are ready for the whistle at this point
10:35and there it is
10:39on the evening of his 100th cap for France
10:43Kylian Mbappe's goal is the difference as the two teams head to the dressing rooms
10:46amidst some fierce rain here at the Philadelphia Stadium
10:52the half-time score is France 1-Iraq 0
11:02so the second half is underway after a 130 minute
11:10and just next door as well where the baseball team play Philadelphia Phillies they were watered in their attempt to
11:17close out a world series against the Tampa Bay Rays
11:19in 2008
11:25that game didn't resume for another two days
11:28hopefully we just had two hours tonight
11:53hopefully we just had two hours tonight
11:59what a wonderful summer last year here at the club world cup
12:27what a wonderful summer last year here at the club world cup
12:28he's working all the way back to win that ball back in the middle of the field
12:32he was talking to the media yesterday at a very long press conference he gave about his positioning and
12:37essentially said that he's played in three world cups one on the left one on the right one in the
12:43center but he's everywhere at the moment
12:45here's Dembele won't keep that in will he flags up our side of the beer goal kick
12:49player who has been rejuvenated on the Ballon d'Or winner
13:12oh what a big mistake this is it's on a plate for Mbappe and he scores his second of the
13:18night
13:29deja vu for Iraq from their first game a mix up at the back a goalkeeper left
13:35holding his hands out
13:39and a deadly striker celebrating again France 2, Iraq 0
13:59Iraq now but France will feel halfway there
14:04Kassim
14:09little bit disjointed but the resumption
14:14this Iraqi team and they give away the free kick as well
14:22and one goal gets you back in the game just makes it a lot more difficult for them now to
14:27know that they have to get to to get a point from this game
14:31at the same time you don't want to risk losing by too many goals either because you're still in this
14:46it's a sixth world cup brace for Mbappe
14:50but as we know
14:52he can do more than score two
14:53at a big game at a world cup
14:56and here he is
14:57he's looking for a hat-trick
14:58he presents it to Elise
15:00it's off the bar
15:08and he is
15:08Rabiot
15:09just away from the outstretched boots of Dembele
15:13and now you sense
15:18and here
15:19here's Mbappe's play gets around the defender and lays it nice and easy for
15:24Elise to just ship the goalkeeper to the far post but he finds the crossbar and
15:30here's Elise taking his man on down the line he's gonna zip around on a slick
15:35surface Mbappe lovely control runners either side picks out Elise and they're
15:43getting a lot of bodies forward
15:53you see I mean let's come on
16:03and that was Rebens to lock up
16:12Desiree Douay is being primed to come into the game he started against Senegal
16:30good conditions now for one of those sliding challenges isn't it
16:33something they could go early this that was Hussein Ali coming in there no doubt
16:39now you start thinking about who comes off the bench for France and you look at
16:42guys like Douay or Cherokee or Choumini and are these really subs you know these
16:48are these are really just more starters
16:55that's the quality they have Dembele speaking of quality there's the shot
17:00deep of deflection
17:02deep of deflection
17:20fast corner
17:21short to Dean
17:23his cross
17:25and
17:26nodded wide
17:28and
17:30Saliba but a little touch on the way through so another corner which is taken
17:35quickly Alise, Van Valle on the turn, still got it, side netting
17:48some big stars in the crowd tonight there's Colin Gillespie of the Phoenix
17:52Suns NBA team
18:05Alise
18:07Guggenheim great finish great goal
18:24they want to know where exactly he fits in this French group
18:29we're getting the answer
18:35Oshmane Dembele
18:38slotting it into the corner
18:40and France now
18:42cruising
18:54and it takes so little for this team to score
18:58watch the turn here from Alise immediately finds the feet hard of Dembele who makes it next season so he
19:04could be on the move at the end of this World Cup and again of course this is where the
19:08shop window is
19:09Dean
19:17Amun now the substitute
19:25and he wins a corner
19:26the next round
19:42he places football in Cyprus
19:46for A.E.K. Larnaka, and here is Zidaneh Pao to take the corner, and that varies a thing
20:05for A.E.K., an outswinger, which is volleyed over by Sulaka, the substitute.
20:19And here's the third.
20:26And there it is, that reception from Dembele, again, was the right foot, and immediately
20:32looks at that far post and puts it away.
20:40Alise, again, setting it up.
20:46There's been some talk about Alise going to Real Madrid, but they've squashed that
20:51and said it's just paper talk.
20:57Let's see what another good tournament on the world stage could do.
21:01I mentioned he was outstanding for Bayern Munich in the FIFA Club World Cup here last year.
21:06And he had an outstanding season all year for Bayern Munich.
21:17Bayern Munich started on the youth books of Reading Football Club in Berkshire, England.
21:26This is better. And the cross deflected away.
21:33And a shard with the cross.
21:35Jeffrey says, play on, there's no foul.
21:37So Hikamarak again, trying to build something from that left-hand side.
21:41They've got Dorski.
21:44And that's Kasim's cross.
21:46And it wasn't far away as Alhamadi was in there.
21:51And here comes the cut inside the cross of the far post.
21:55And look at this great movement from Alhamadi.
21:58He barely gets a toe on it.
22:00And almost puts it into that far post.
22:11They have so much quality up front.
22:13They're so interchangeable.
22:15They play with such ease.
22:18Kasim.
22:20Runner outside him.
22:21And three in the middle.
22:24That's right, yes.
22:25An end of an era in managerial stakes.
22:27But certainly not on the playing front.
22:28When you look at the ages of most of the group.
22:33Felice is at 24.
22:34Barker to 23.
22:35Mbappe, as we've mentioned, 27.
22:37And 100 caps already.
22:53That's how the score pans out on expected goals.
22:57Little bit closer than the reality.
23:15France being watched tonight by a former teammate of Didier Deschamps.
23:20There he is, Christian Karambeau.
23:21World Cup winner.
23:231998 and Euro 2000.
23:27.
23:39Douay.
23:42Chirky, look at those feet.
24:04Lows to think of himself as a throwback kind of player around Chirky.
24:09Player who will run at you, he'll beat you, he'll use both feet, perform some magic.
24:18Not a bad option to bring into a game, is he really?
24:23Not at all, that's what we've mentioned before, they have so many starters.
24:27Mbappe, referee waves away his claims for a penalty.
24:39American Joe Dickerson is the video assistant referee tonight.
25:02Chirky, Mbappe, he went once, he's gone again!
25:10And a few new managers to impress as well.
25:17No doubt, a lot of changes at the club level.
25:20Mbappe at Real Madrid.
25:24I'm sure he'd love nothing more than to have success there as well as a team.
25:40I wonder if Graham Arnold is any closer to sorting out his goalkeeping dilemma.
25:45Made a change tonight and they effectively gave away a very similar type of goal.
25:56Mbappe at Real Madrid.
26:11He is shown for Mbappe for the one-two and it was Sulaka who got a touch in.
26:22I have to say how good Kone has been in this game.
26:25He has recovered every second ball in the centre of the field.
26:28And he has run over the top and it was instinctively hit by Mbappe who's looking at the linesman,
26:34and the assistant on the far side, I think he wondered whether he would have been offside,
26:37but we never got a flag.
26:53Still banging the drum behind the goal, the Iraqi supporters inside the stadium.
26:57They were enjoying themselves in the rainbreak as well.
26:59They went out on the concourses, they were having a real good sing-song out there.
27:03And everybody came back in after the rain delay.
27:07We have a huge crowd in Philadelphia tonight.
27:19They get no foul.
27:22Shah turned into his man.
27:24And at the other end, he's looking at a counter.
27:42Senegal coming up Friday in Toronto for Iraq.
27:50France return, or return to their training base at Boston, but will play at the Boston Stadium
27:57for the first time against Norway in their final group game.
28:10And they will all have all to play for.
28:14That's right, Iraq's fate wouldn't be decided by this game this evening when it kicked off.
28:20This is Mbappe.
28:21Can he do one more?
28:23He gets away.
28:24He's on his left.
28:26And he fires it wide.
28:28Another hat-trick beckoning.
28:30We talked about there's always another gear.
28:32And I think here's all the gears.
28:34Mbappe turns it on, goes full speed, blows by two defenders.
28:37But his left foot is sharp.
28:44Information that Marcus Turam is on.
29:09And Kloosh.
29:16Does well.
29:17And Nurak was in there and...
29:20Milaka was there to head it away.
29:22And with that, through Fischer, blows his whistle.
29:25...
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