Thanks to his goal scored in the first period of France’s match against the Netherlands, Kylian Mbappé did as well as a certain Olivier Giroud.
The French team is back on the hats. Three months after giving in after the penalty shootout of the 2022 World Cup final against Argentina, the Blues face the Netherlands team this Friday. And for their first meeting in the Euro 2024 qualifiers, Didier Deschamps’ men stifled their opponents during a controlled first period, with three goals to boot. The one registered by Kylian Mbappé recalled that of Olivier Giroud, on October 7, 2020.
That evening, Olivier Giroud was named captain by Didier Deschamps as he honored his hundredth selection in blue. And the center-forward had scored against Ukraine. Since then, no other tricolor captain had scored a goal during his very first captaincy. But on Friday evening, Kylian Mbappé therefore succeeded the AC Milan player, who recovered the armband after the retirement of Hugo Lloris. The tricolor nugget continues, little touch by little touch, to write its story.