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FIFA World Cup France Tame Switzerland 52 at Salvador
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FIFA World Cup: France Tame Switzerland 5-2 at Salvador
June 21, 2014 02:22
Salvador saw France thrash Switzerland 5-2 in a match where the Les Blues dominated the game all the way. Two late goals by Switzerland did flutter some French wings but they had too much to recover.(All images AP)
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Salvador saw France thrash Switzerland 5-2 in a match where the Les Blues dominated the game all the way. Two late goals by Switzerland did flutter some French wings but they had too much to recover.(All images AP)
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Oliver Giroud of France scored the first goal of the match in the 17th minute.
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Blaise Matuidi scored the second goal for France one minute later, the same guy whose assist helped Giroud to score the match's first.
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Mathieu Vabluena scored France's third goal in the 40th minute to take them into the halftime break leading 3-0.
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The second half saw France up the attack even more but Karim Benzema missed a penalty losing an oppurtunity to score his first goal of the game.
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Benzema finally scored his only goal of the game in the 67th minute when he thudded the ball inside the Swiss net off a Paulo Pogba cross.
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For Swiss keeper Diego Bengalio, it was a match thet he would soon want to forget after he was beaten for a total of five times.
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Xherdan Shaqiri, who was highly rated by experts ahead of the World Cup, failed completely to live up to the expectations of both the Swiss team and the fans.
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Hugo Lloris failed to stop Blerim Dzemaili's hard hit shot from a 25 meter distance giving Switzerland a late consolation.
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The Swiss again scored in the 87th minute through Granit Xhaka but they still had a lot to recover.
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The French fans in blue were the happier section as opposed to the fans in red who were not so happy after the final result.
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