Another surprising result is the Uruguay vs France match. I never expected Uruguay to concede twice against the young French team. If you have read my post before the match I emphasized so much about the Uruguay defense with the likes of Godin in control of the defense.

The French team as shown that as young as they are, they are ready to be champions in Russia. Personally even if I was expecting a win from France, I would have predicted the goal margin to be just a goal but France went on to score twice against a very defensive team.

Uruguay First Eleven

Fernando Muslera, Martin Carceres, Jose Gimenez, Diego Godin, Diego Laxalt, Lucas Torreira, Nahitan Nandez, Matias Vecino, Rodrigo Bentancur, Luiz Suarez , Cristhian Stuani.

Maximiliano Gomez, Cristian Rodriguez, Jonathan Urretaviscaya came in as substitute for Uruguay

France First Eleven

Hugo Lloris, Lucas Hernandez, Samuel Umtiti , Raphael Varane , Benjamin Parvard , Paul Pogba, N Golo kante, Corentin Tolisso, Antonie Griezman , Kylian Mbappe, Olivier Giroud

Steven Nzonzi, Ousmane Dembele, Nabil Fekir came him as substitute for France.

France scored twice, each goal coming from both half of the match. Raphael Varane gave France the lead five minute before the first half break.

Antoine Griezman doubled the lead for France in the 61st minute of the match and France got the victory needed to move to the next round of the tournament.