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England v France 2022: Who won the last time these two faced each other
Saturday (10 December) will mark the third time England and France have met each other in a World Cup tournament.
But their friendly five years ago, in 2017, could be more telling of what is to come from the quarter-final clash at the weekend.
In that game at the Stade de France, Les Blueslined up with Kylian Mbappe and Olivier Giroud leading the line, and the latter has just recently become the all-time leading goal scorer for his country after scoring against Poland.
They also deployed Ousmane Dembele on the wing, where he has been flourishing for them in Qatar so far.
For England, Harry Kane led the line as he will likely do once again when these two sides lock horns on Saturday.
The rest of their starting XI that day looks vastly different to right now, with the exception of John Stones, Kieran Trippier and Raheem Sterling who have all featured in Qatar - as well as Eric Dier, who has been a feature from the bench.
The Three Lions took the lead inside the opening ten minutes courtesy of Kane, who was on the end of Ryan Bertrand’s cross.
But France would hit back a little over 10 minutes later through Samuel Umtiti, who was the first to react to Tom Heaton’s save to fire home the rebound. Just before the half, they would take advantage of another rebound as Djibril Sidibe gave them the lead going into the break.
Kane slotted home a penalty moments after half-time, but Dembele’s strike from Mbappe’s pass just 10 minutes from the end would be enough for France to claim victory this time round.
With plenty of new and familiar faces alike to line up opposite each other, we could be on course to witness one of the best games of this competition as these two footballing giants meet in the World Cup knockout rounds for the first time.
