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Turkey dominated its qualifying group in 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 their first two wins, but this time their attack was kept silent by the solid defense of Turkey while the French defense was too easy. violated.
The coach of France, Didier Deschamps, was furious with the performance of his team in Konya.
"When you play like that at the collective level, there is nothing positive to be learned from the game," he told TF1. "We did not play as we should have done against a team that played as she likes."
After right-back Benjamin Pavard gave a free-kick to the left in the 30th minute, attacking midfielder Cengiz Under hit the ball at the back post, where defender Kaan Ayhan pushed away the goalkeeper from behind. Hugo Lloris.
The highly esteemed Under 21, who has already attracted attention on several occasions with Roma in Serie A, gave the advantage to Turkey 10 minutes later with a nice finish.
France was at fault, however, as center-back Samuel Umtiti and Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba had both lost the ball clumsily and on.
Central midfielder Dorukhan Tokoz took the challenge and attacked the panicked defense retreating. He gave Under a pbad to sneak to the right of the penalty area and Under snapped a low shot in the lower left corner.
"We were not present [and] That's what the highest level, whether you are world champions or not, "said Deschamps. When you do not show good intentions, you can not hope for anything. "
Tuesday, Turkey will travel to Iceland in third place while France seeks to rebound in Andorra.
Iceland and France each have six points.
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