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Mbappe fires France past Croatia

Right place, right time: Kylian Mbappe gets on the end of a tantalising pass to score France’s winner. (Source: AFP)

Kylian Mbappe scored late as France beat Croatia in a closely-contested UEFA Nations League match 2-1 to stay level on points with group leader Portugal.

The results: Nations League: League A: Group 1: Poland 3 (Lewandowski 40, 52 Linetty 45+1) bt Bosnia and Herzegovina 0; Italy 1 (Lorenzo Pellegrini 16) drew with the Netherlands 1 (Van de Beek 25).

Group 2: England 0 lost to Denmark 1 (Eriksen 35-pen); Iceland 1 (B. Saevarsson 17) lost to Belgium 2 (Lukaku 9, 38-pen).

Group 3: Croatia 1 (Vlasic 65) lost to France 2 (Griezmann 8, Mbappe 79); Portugal 3 (B. Silva 21, Jota 44, 72) bt Sweden 0.

League B: Group 1: Norway 1 (Dallas 68-og) bt Northern Ireland 0; Romania 0 lost to Austria 1 (Schopf 76).

Group 2: Scotland 1 (Fraser 6) bt Czech Republic 0; Slovakia 2 (Hamsik 16, Mak 38) lost to Israel 3 (Zahavi 68, 76, 89).

Group 3: Turkey 2 (Calhanoglu 57, Ozan Tufan 76) drew with Serbia 2 (Milinkovic-Savic 22, Mitrovic 49-pen) ; Russia 0 drew with Hungary 0.

Group 4: Bulgaria 0 lost to Wales 1 (J. Williams 85); Finland 1 (Jensen 66) bt Republic of Ireland 0.

League C: Group 2: North Macedonia 1 (Alioski 90+3-pen) drew with Georgia 1 (Kvaratskhelia 74); Estonia 1 (Sappinen 14) drew with Armenia 1 (K. Hovhannisyan 8).

Group 3: Moldova 0 lost to Slovenia 4 (Lovric 8, Vuckic 37-pen, 42, 55); Greece 0 drew with Kosovo 0.

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