Poland Football

IAN HERBERT AT BVB STADION DORTMUND: Oh yes, the mask fitted and Kylian Mbappe wore it so well, ripping it off to take the acclaim after a converted penalty kick. But one player doesn't make a team and after Poland pulled the game back, the French nation was destined for angst in the days ahead. The scoreline reflects a team searching for the same union of all the talents as Spain. France looked like a one-man operation at times, with the same struggle for the fluidity which had kept Antoine Griezmann on the bench. Painfully bereft of someone to take and convert the ball which fizzed into the six-yard box when Ousmane Demebele - one of the few other Bleus capable of breaking the lines. The good news, from a French perspective, is that a hoodoo is lifted for Mbappe, whose converted kick spot early in the second half - after Jakub Kiwior had clumsily taken down Demebele - finally brought him a European Championships goal....read