{"id":859159,"date":"2026-03-29T23:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/859159\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T23:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:15:12","slug":"france-beat-colombia-convincingly-in-a-friendly-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/859159\/","title":{"rendered":"France beat Colombia convincingly in a friendly in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/france-45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a> national team beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/colombia-118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colombia<\/a> national team 3-1 in a friendly played in the United States. Didier Deschamps\u2019 side was superior for much of the match and settled the result convincingly.<\/p>\n<p>The first goal came in the 28th minute of the first half, when <strong>D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9<\/strong> opened the scoring. Before halftime, in the 40th minute, <strong>Marcus Thuram<\/strong> made it 2-0 with a header from a cross from the right.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/france-45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a> struck quickly again. In the 10th minute, <strong>Dou\u00e9<\/strong> scored again to make it 3-0 and all but put the match away. <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/colombia-118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colombia<\/a> reacted in the final stretch. In the 31st minute of the second half, <strong>Jaminton Campaz<\/strong> pulled one back after a move that was created following the introductions of Juan Fernando Quintero and Campaz himself.<\/p>\n<p>Hugo EKITIKE of <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/france-45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a> and Alvaro MONTERO of <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/colombia-118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colombia<\/a> during the friendly match between <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/colombia-118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colombia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/france-45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a> at Northwest Stadium on March 29, 2026 in Landover, United States. (Photo by Sandra Ruhaut\/Icon Sport via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>N\u00e9stor Lorenzo\u2019s team improved in the final minutes, but it wasn\u2019t enough for them to get back into the game. <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/france-45\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a> controlled the tempo, was more clinical, and claimed the win in a friendly that featured plenty of pace and chances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The France national team beat the Colombia national team 3-1 in a friendly played in the United States.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-859159","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\/116315011477551912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859159","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=859159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}