France extended their winning streak to four in a row as they saw off Colombia on Sunday night, securing a 3-1 win in their second game of the March international window.<\/p>\n
Taking place at the Northwest Stadium in Maryland, United States, the Commanders\u2019 stadium was packed out close to its 90,000 capacity.<\/p>\n
The first Real Madrid player involved was Eduardo Camavinga, who was brought on after 64 minutes to replace Warren Za\u00efre-Emery in midfield. His only notable involvement was to be shown a yellow card 10 minutes later for a late tackle on Jefferson Lerma.<\/p>\n
On 78 minutes, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 entered the field of play as centre-forward, replacing Inter\u2019s Marcus Thuram. He came close to equalling Olivier Giroud as France\u2019s all-time top scorer, but Deiver Machado dropped back to clear the ball off the line as the striker tried to finish from a narrow angle to wrap up a counter attack. He then found the net in injury time, only to see the offside flag raised as he had broken through the Colombian defensive line.<\/p>\n
Earlier on, Paris Saint-Germain winger D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 opened the scoring on 30 minutes with a deflected shot, and Thuram doubled the lead before half-time with a short-range header. Dou\u00e9 added a third in the second half, finding acres of space to tap in from a cross from Thuram.<\/p>\n
Colombia hit back through substitute Jaminton Campaz and a powerful effort which left French goalkeeper Brice Samba stranded, but the 77th minute consolation strike was too little too late.<\/p>\n
There were no minutes for Aur\u00e9lien Tchouameni, who was rested after playing an hour against Brazil on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Former Real Madrid man James Rodr\u00edguez, now with Minnesota United, had also started for Colombia. It was the captain\u2019s 124th international appearance for his country, and he remains a regular at this level, starting seven of eight games for his country this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France extended their winning streak to four in a row as they saw off Colombia on Sunday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[84439,403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-553359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-real-madrid-cf-players","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}