A racism scandal had heightened tensions ahead of the game after a video of Argentina players singing an offensive song French players of African heritage as they celebrated their Copa América victory...
It took France less than five minutes to ratchet up the atmosphere even further.Mateta met Michael Olise's corner at the near post and sent his header past Argentina goalkeeper Gerónimo Rulli to put t...
Tensions briefly flared during first-half stoppage time when Mateta went to check on a teammate getting treatment inside Argentina's penalty area and was pushed away. Lacazette smoothed things over qu...
France held firm in the second half and thought they had a second goal when Olise found the net with a deflected strike in the 84th minute. Although that goal was ruled out after a VAR check for an ea...