During the break before the start, we saw that Stuart Pearce is still making money from his missed penalty. No shame some people. Then we had the obligatory catch-up with England, Trippier the one interviewed this time because, well, everyone else already has been. And Gareth Southgate dislocated his shoulder while out on a run, did you know? Think everyone in the country knows by now.
Patrice Evra sporting an atrocious black bow tie and red jumper combo. Wonder what Roy Keane made of it? Sadly he wasn’t asked.
Peru in the red stripes came flying out of the traps but France gave warnings with a couple of half chances, Guerrero had a great chance and managed to hit the target as the commentators are always exhorting players to do, but Lee Dixon told us that “he has to beat the ‘keeper from there”. (Later when a free-kick went straight to the ‘keeper he intoned “it was on target but that’s about all you can say”. I despair.)
Soon after Mbappe tapped in a deflected Giroud shot to put the favourites in front as they began to take control, but it didn’t last and Peru posed them plenty of problems without in truth looking like scoring. Loads of spirit and enthusiasm with an impressively large contingent of supporters but no killer instinct.
So Peru out, France with two wins but do they look like potential winners? Well, winners often start slowly and build up to the big games, and they still have a massively impressive squad.
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