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WAKRAH, Qatar — France began play here with the world’s most talented injured list, the curse of the defending champion, its history of World Cup implosion following upon World Cup success, its frequent bouquet of imaginative scandals and an early one-goal deficit to Australia in its opening match.
It still wound up looking ravishing.
Its 4-1 win over the Socceroos on Tuesday night filled Al Janoub Stadium with gasps over the French art on display. The four French goals did achieve loveliness, as did the umpteen French near-goals. France still made Australian goalkeeper Mathew Ryan lunge and lurch in so many ways he’d rather not. It still had running around one of the best players anybody ever saw, Kylian Mbappé, as well as a ludicrous amount of other talent and a 36-year-old Olivier Giroud running around scoring two goals.
It still looked like a bunch of somebodies who will get out of this Group D with Australia, Denmark and Tunisia, could serve as pure hell in the knockout phase — no champion has repeated since 1962 — and might even find inspiration from inconvenience.
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It had to get here without two players anyone would covet — the injured Paul Pogba and N’Golo Kante — and then bid adieu for now to another, Karim Benzema, who withdrew Saturday with a torn muscle. It had Lucas Hernandez go off early after a tangle along the route to the Australian goal that jolted the place after nine minutes. Superstitious onlookers might have thought of 2002, when defending champion France opened with a 1-0 loss to Senegal and couldn’t get out of the group stage, or 2010, when defending runner-up France opened with a 0-0 draw with Uruguay, lost to Mexico and South Africa and couldn’t get out of the group.
Oddly, those things have nothing to do with 2022.
For after Australian defender Harry Souttar sent a long ball to Mathew Leckie on the right, and after Leckie untangled himself with Hernandez and kept the ball, and after Leckie crossed to Craig Goodwin, and after Goodwin smashed it in off the underside of the goal roof for a 1-0 lead, France happened.
“We reacted well,” the forever French manager Didier Deschamps said.
On 27 minutes, after a French corner kick reached the box and bounced out, Hernandez’s replacement, Theo Hernandez, sent it back in as if it knew precisely the way to Adrien Rabiot’s head. Rabiot, slightly to the right of center in front of the goal, headed it in toward the left.
On 31 minutes, Mbappé and Rabiot managed to get the ball away from Nathaniel Atkinson, so that Mbappé could back-foot it in a blur to Rabiot, and Rabiot could move to the left of the box and cross to the front to Giroud, who eased it into the net.
“And even though we had a little bit of fright toward the end of the first half,” Deschamps said of an Australian header by Jackson Irvine that bounced and struck the left post, leaving goalkeeper Hugo Lloris with an expression that suggested he had seen better defense in his day, “then in the second half we showed a lot more confidence. We forced Australia onto the back foot, and we created a lot of chances.”
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On 68 minutes, just after a frenzy where Australian defender Mitch Duke had to save one headed for another goal, another frenzy turned up with Mbappé making thunder on the left. He sent a ball rolling across the front of the goal and through the box, where Ousmane Dembélé got it. Dembélé crossed it back to the middle, where Mbappé rose amid two defenders and headed it to the left post, where it caromed in.
And on 71 minutes, Mbappé made another drive, dancing through the left and sending a curling cross headed in by Giroud.
“So of course that’s good,” Deschamps said. “We could have scored more. But it’s a very good beginning to the tournament. The opening match is always vital. It’s always important. So I’d like to congratulate the team and the players. We’ve seen some games earlier where a team couldn’t respond, but we did.”
They did against an Australia that had scraped into the field by beating Peru in one of the intercontinental playoffs, and which had wobbled near the end of its Asian qualifying, and which has only two players in the big five leagues of Europe, both usually reserves. Yet the French ran rings around their first foe here in a way that suggested a realization of their capabilities. “It’s very good for our self-confidence,” Giroud told reporters in the news conference afterward, “to have turned things around,” after winning just one of its previous six matches.
France had looked like France, and also unlike France.
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USMNT: In their return to the World Cup, the young Americans settled for a 1-1 draw against Wales in their Group B opener. The U.S. men’s national team will face a taller task Friday against Group B favorite England, which demolished Iran, 6-2, earlier Monday.
Qatar controversy: Soccer fans wearing the rainbow, a symbol of LGBTQ inclusivity, have said they were refused entry into World Cup stadiums and confronted by members of the public to remove the emblem.
Groups guide: The U.S. men’s national soccer team, led by Coach Gregg Berhalter and star forward Christian Pulisic, qualified for the 2022 World Cup, an improvement from its disastrous and unsuccessful 2018 campaign. Here’s a close look at how all of the teams in each group stack up.
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[Verse 1: French Montana]
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[Bridge again]
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