France recorded the biggest victory in its history – and set a new qualification record for the men’s European Championship – with a 14-0 defeat to Gibraltar at 10 on Saturday, when Kylian Mbappé scored a hat-trick and Warren Zaire-Emery scored for his debut.
France led 7-0 at the halfway point of their Euro Group B qualifier with Marcus Thuram, Zaire-Emery, Mbappé, Jonathan Clauss, Kingsley Coman and Youssouf Fofana on the scoresheet after taking the lead through an own goal in the third minute.
The score was reduced to 10 minutes when Ethan Santos was sent off, and the biggest victory in French history, 10-0 against Azerbaijan in 1995, was clearly in sight.
A goal from Adrien Rabiot and Coman’s second goal brought the record closer and Ousmane Dembélé raised the score to 10-0, before Mbappé added two more and Olivier Giroud came into action with a double. The 14-0 victory is the biggest victory in the qualification for the European Men’s Championship and overshadows Germany’s 13-0 defeat to San Marino.
The early goal of Wout Weghorst allowed The Netherlands to qualify for Euro by defeating Ireland 1-0 at the Johan Cruyff area and taking second place in Group B.
Weghorst broke away right in the Irish half of the field and, despite the options on his left, decided to go straight to the goal and make a scrappy effort that bounced on the roof of the net after 12 minutes.
The Dutch, deprived of many of their regulars due to health issue, dominated their opponents for most of the match and created several half chances for themselves, but could not increase their lead, although Tijjani Reijnders missed his strike in the 52nd minute.
Ireland believed they had scored the equalizer when Adam Idah’s strike passed through Bart Verbruggen’s hands in the 65th minute, with goal-line technology confirming that he had crossed the line, but VAR noted that Idah was on the sidelines when he received the ball.
This was the only moment of excitement for the Travelling support, as Ireland, who finished with six points after six defeats in eight matches, rarely mentioned the slightest opportunity. It was to be their MANAGER Stephen Kenny’s last competitive outing, with Ireland playing a friendly against New Zealand in Dublin on Tuesday.
