the star of the show was kylian m bappe, as olly foster now reports. poland not half as bad as we thought they were going to be. they limped through the group stages to set up this last 16 tie against the french, the strong favourites, of course. and it is the scoreline, the result that we expected. but it was very tight at half time. olivier giroud had given the french the lead just before the break, his 52nd goal for his country. and that sees him overtake the great thierry henry, so olivier giroud a happy man this evening, he is now france s record goal scorer. but you know what? kylian mbappe is fast going to catch up and perhaps will one day hold that record himself. it was a far quieter second half for the first sort of 20 minutes or so, but then mbappe, you cannot keep a good man down. we were there, weren t we, in russia four years ago when mbappe really came to the fore, he was a teenager at that
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