Turkey surprise France, world champion, with a 2-0 home victory

KONYA, Turkey – Turkey dominated its qualifying group at the European Championship by dominating the World Cup winner, France, in a 2-0 home win Saturday.

Turkey has nine points on three wins and has not yet conceded a goal in Group H. France scored four goals in each of its first two wins, but this time its attack was kept silent by the Turkey's strong defense while the French defense was too easy. violated.

The coach of France, Didier Deschamps, was worried about the performance of his team.

"When you play like that at the collective level, there is nothing positive to be learned from the game," he told TF1 television channel. "We did not play like we should have played against a team that played as it likes."

After retiring from behind, Benjamin Pavard gave a free kick to the left in the 30th minute. Midfielder Cengiz Ünder sent the ball to the far post, where defender Kaan Ayhan pushed off goalkeeper Hugo Lloris by far.

Ünder, 21, who has already attracted attention on several occasions with Roma in the Italian Serie A, gave the advantage to Turkey 10 minutes later with a nice finish.

France was at fault, however, while center-center Samuel Umtiti and Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba lost the ball clumsily and quickly.

Central midfielder Dorukhan Toköz relieved and attacked the panicked defense retreating. He gave a pbad to Ünder to get into the right side of the penalty area and Ünder confidently sent a low shot to the bottom left corner.

"We were not there (and) that's the highest level, whether you're world champions or not," Deschamps said. "When you do not show good intentions, you can not hope for anything."

On Tuesday, Turkey will qualify for third place, Iceland, while France is expected to bounce back to last place, Andorra.

Iceland and France have six points.

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