2023-11-19 00:27:11
It was a match to improve the statistics, and the Blues did not fail. Saturday November 18, France scored the largest victory in its history against Gibraltar in Nice. The previous record dated September 6, 1995 against Azerbaijan (10-0) in Auxerre, with Didier Deschamps on the field. The Blues equalized in the 73rd minute, when Ousmane Dembélé scored the 10th goal. It was then Kylian Mbappé who scored the 11th goal in the 74th minute before giving an unprecedented scale to the score (12-0) with an extraordinary goal from 40 meters. The captain of the Blues scores a hat-trick, the second of his international career. Olivier Giroud completed the Blues’ journey by scoring the 13th and 14th goals, dedicated to his granddaughter Aria who celebrated her 3rd birthday this Saturday. The last, a magnificent reversed scissor, will delight photographers.
They had already signed the largest gap in their history at the break (7-0). This record is not the only one of the evening, since Warren Zaire-Emery became, at 17 years and 255 days, the youngest scorer for the Blues since 1914 (16th). The PSG player, hit in the ankle, came out straight away for his first cap. Jonathan Clauss, 14 years his senior, also scored for the first time with the French team with a clear strike (34th), while the unfortunate Ethan Santos – excluded shortly after – had opened the hostilities by scoring against his camp.
Marcus Thuram (4th), Kylian Mbappé (30th sp), Kingsley Coman (36th, 65th), Youssouf Fofana (37th) and Adrien Rabiot (63rd) also participated in the party.
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