3-0 would be too harsh. Hope it ends on this note if Senegal can't score.
Fulltime 🇫🇷3-1🇸🇳
PSG staff and alumni steal the show. France get revenge for one of the highlights of every African millenial's childhood.
Mbappe becomes France's all time greatest goalscorer seconds after Mbaye becomes Senegal's youngest ever world cup goalscorer.
3-1 France 98'
Uff. Multiple Senegalese give aways in the second half that needed Edouard Mendy's intervention. That Mbappe goal was forecoming.
Wow. Roller coaster 45 seconds: Mbaye to Mbappe. Ugh.
Africa's* youngest world cup goalscorer of all time, and the fourth youngest in history, 18 years and 143 days. Take a bow kiddo.
85' 2-0. Ismaila Sarr's wastefulness in the first half costing Senegal here. This is the world cup, missed opportunities come to haunt you against anyone, let alone a team packed with so many attacking gems, that Cherki isn't even on the pitch yet.
My primary school teachers in Addis Ababa gave us the day off decades ago, to let us watch Senegal take on France in the 2002 World Cup opener. Senegal defeated the heavily favoured defending champions, a shining moment in African football history.
Will a Papa Bouba Diop emerge in 2026?
HT: 🇸🇳0-0🇫🇷