Unimpressive France progress thanks to deflected goal

France will play Portugal or Slovenia in the quarter-finals on Friday.

Mbappé, again wearing a mask to protect his broken nose, had five shots but none were on target in a low-quality match between the teams ranked No. 2 (France) and No. 3 (Belgium) who largely cancelled each other out.

Add a fortunate deflected shot to an own-goal and a penalty -  scored by Mbappé - and that's France's only goals at Euro 2024.

It will do little to stop the growing dissent of France's fans who feel more can come from a talented group of players headlined by Mbappé, playing on the day he officially became a Real Madrid player.

Mbappé will be playing in his first ever quarter-final at the European Championship, with France having lost on a penalty shoot-out to Switzerland in the last 16 at the last tournament in 2021.