The French team actually started to take the first serious step towards defending their world title by reaching the second round (round of 16) after taking a valuable 2-1 victory over their Danish counterpart in the match they played in Saturday in the second round of the competition in group D of the tournament.
France, who won the World Cup 4 years ago in Russia, became the first to officially reach the round of 16 at this World Cup, raising that win to 6 points at the top of the group, the only team to have played two matches at the tournament to date, which has scored two victories in a row, and on the other hand, the balance of the Danish team is frozen at the point that they scored with a goalless draw in their first match in the group against Tunisia. The first half ended in a goalless draw, so French striker Kylian Mbappe opened the gates of the match in the second half, namely in the 61st minute, before Andreas Christiansen equalized for Denmark in the 68th minute, but Mbappe seemed persistent. about taking responsibility and scoring points for his country when he added a precious 86th-minute winner to announce with his comrades that the roosters had made it well into the second round before their third match in the group where they meet with the Tunisian team.
Significantly, the Mbappe player increased the number of goals in this version of the World Cup to 3 goals in order to share the top scorer at the moment with the Ecuadorian Ener Valencia.
