While all the fans are eagerly waiting for the final match between Argentina and Spain in the FIFA World Cup 2026, on the late night of July 19, a match was played between England and France for the third position. This match saw a fierce competition between the two teams and after 1982, it became the first World Cup match in which the maximum total of 10 goals were scored. The England team won the match by a margin of 6-4 and finished in third position and won the bronze medal. At the end of the first half of this match, England was leading 4-0, after which the French team made a strong comeback in the second half but could not succeed in winning the match.
England showed unilateral dominance in the first half
In the third position match against France, England’s aggressive attitude was seen in the first half, in which their captain Declan Rice scored the first goal in the third minute of the game to give his team a 1-0 lead. After this, in the 18th minute, Ezri Konsa sent the ball into the goal post through a header and England was ahead 2-0 in the match. At the same time, Bukayo Saka scored two consecutive goals in the 37th and 43rd minutes of the game, increasing England’s lead to 4-0 by the end of the first half.
France made a comeback in the second half but England fought back
Third Position: With the beginning of the second half of the match, a brilliant comeback was seen from France in which their star player Kylian Mbappe scored the first goal for his team in the 48th minute. After this, Bradley Barcola scored the second goal for France in the 54th minute and the match was now 4-2. Kylian Mbappe brought France completely back into the match when he scored his second goal of the match in the 66th minute. In which the score line now came to 4-3. Meanwhile, England got the benefit of France’s mistake in which they completed their hat-trick in this match with Bukayo Saka scoring a penalty in the 87th minute of the game. France’s Ousmane Dembele scored in the 90+6th minute and the match came to 5–4, but Jude Bellingham sealed England’s victory with a goal in the 98th minute of injury time.
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