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tends to focus on just playing the game. He is very useful when it comes to linking up with the rest of the team. It was a good start to the tournament.

“We started the game very well – then we conceded a goal which could have been avoided.” Deschamps (right, with Giroud) added: “We reacted well to that. Once we got in front we showed a lot more confidence and created a lot of chances in the second-half.

We scored four and it should have been more.”

The Socceroos took a shock lead thanks to Craig Goodwin.

But any hopes of producing an upset of the magnitude of Saudi Arabia’s earlier victory over Argentina began to fade when Adrien Rabiot levelled. Giroud then struck twice either side of a Kylian

Mbappe effort to move level with Henry. Aussie boss Graham Arnold said: “We ran out of legs. We must now move on.”