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<\/p>\nKylian Mbappe scored for the 10th-successive match and for the 13th time in 14 appearances this season, as France<\/b> beat Azerbaijan<\/b> 3-0 in their World Cup qualifier.<\/p>\n
The Real Madrid striker’s 53rd international goal \u2013 after a brilliant mazy dribble from deep in first-half added time \u2013 put him within four of Olivier Giroud\u2019s national team record of 57 for France.<\/p>\n
Adrien Rabiot and Florian Thauvin, who scored with his first touch having last played in June 2019, found the net after the break as Didier Deschamps\u2019 side made it three wins from three in Group D.<\/p>\n
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Ukraine<\/b> scored twice in the last five minutes through Ivan Kaliuzhnyi and Oleh Ocheretko to beat Iceland<\/b> 5-3 and move into second place.<\/p>\n
Sunderland\u2019s Granit Xhaka and Johan Manzambi scored as Group B leaders Switzerland<\/b> also recorded a 2-0 win to leave Sweden<\/b> bottom with just a point after three matches.<\/p>\n
RESULTS, FIXTURES AND STANDINGS<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Kosovo <\/b>and Slovenia<\/b> finished goalless.<\/p>\n Second-placed Belgium <\/b>were held to a goalless draw at home to by Group J leaders North Macedonia<\/b>, while the 204th ranked side in the world Liechtenstein<\/b> lost their sixth-successive match as they were beaten 4-0 by Kazakhstan<\/b>.<\/p>\n Germany captain Joshua Kimmich (above) celebrated a brace in a comfortable 4-0 win over Luxembourg<\/a> to move Julian Nagelsmann’s side into top spot in Group A.<\/p>\n Northern Ireland moved into second place after beating Slovakia 2-0<\/a> after a Patrik Hrosovsky own goal was followed by a second-half strike from Sunderland defender Trai Hume.<\/p>\n \n Listen to the RT\u00c9 Soccer podcast on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> or wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbappe scored for the 10th-successive match and for the 13th time in 14 appearances this season, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-489654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115352694490651471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"SINSHEIM,](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/00234d19-614.jpg\"\/)
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