Daily Star Sunday

Cry!

Spot-kick

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again looked off-colour in the first half.

They did not do much in the second half either and the penalty was undeserved.

Pogba squeezed through a pass to Griezmann and Risdon dived in, took the ball but then clipped the Atletico Madrid star with a trailing leg.

Pogba then worked a neat one-two with Giroud and stuck out a boot, his shot deflecting off Aziz Behich onto the crossbar and rocketing down, with technology getting this one right as it just crossed the line before bouncing back into play.

Deschamps admitted that France can improve significan­tly.

He said: “It was not easy but winning the opening match is very important.

“It was very complicate­d with a team who gave us a hard time. It’s hard to explain. We missed a change of pace, a little juice.

“At the end, we had a few more opportunit­ies.

“It’s hard for everyone, apart from the first

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