{"id":484597,"date":"2024-06-25T14:16:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T18:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484597"},"modified":"2024-06-25T14:16:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T18:16:01","slug":"unimpressive-france-held-to-1-1-draw-vs-poland-in-dortmund","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/unimpressive-france-held-to-1-1-draw-vs-poland-in-dortmund\/","title":{"rendered":"Unimpressive France held to 1-1 draw vs Poland in Dortmund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France had to settle for second place in Group D at Euro 2024 despite Kylian Mbappe scoring his first goal at a European Championship in their 1-1 draw with Poland in Dortmund.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time champions were poised to top the group when Mbappe, who was wearing a protective mask due to a broken nose, converted a penalty in the 56th minute after Jakub Kiwior fouled Ousmane Dembele.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FRANCE \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 AND POLAND \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf1 \ud835\udc6a\ud835\udc68\ud835\udc75\u2019\ud835\udc7b BE SPLIT \ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FKJPJnKoEp\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FKJPJnKoEp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 433 (@433) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/433\/status\/1805662376219283861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, Poland&#8217;s captain Robert Lewandowski equalized with his own penalty in the 79th minute. The penalty was awarded after VAR ruled that Dayot Upamecano had committed a clumsy foul on Karol Swiderski. Although France goalkeeper Mike Maignan initially saved Lewandowski&#8217;s shot, he was found to have come off his line too early.<\/p>\n<p>Lewandowski made no mistake on his second attempt, rolling the ball in off the post to secure a point for his already eliminated side.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">France and Poland share the points in Dortmund \ud83d\udc4a<\/p>\n<p>France finish second in Group D \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EURO2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#EURO2024<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FRAPOL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FRAPOL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nyoo12nYj5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nyoo12nYj5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA EURO 2024 (@EURO2024) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EURO2024\/status\/1805662290038891001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Austria topped the group following their 3-2 victory over the Netherlands in Berlin, with the Dutch progressing as one of the best third-placed teams. France\u2019s second-place finish in the group means they will face a different path in the knockout stages as they look to advance further in the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France had to settle for second place in Group D at Euro 2024 despite Kylian Mbappe scoring his first goal at a European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":484598,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17082,17142,23011],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[18422,17862,23012],"acf":{"announce":"Mbappe returned with a goal, but it wasn't enough for the French side","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484599,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484597\/revisions\/484599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484597"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484597"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}