A draw, two goals disallowed and few lessons.
With sweltering heat at New York Stadium, France conceded a last-minute draw against Iceland (1-0) on Monday July 18.
Already qualified and guaranteed to finish first in their group, the Bleues are still concentrated.
It takes less than 20 seconds for Melvine Malard to frame the first shot of the match.
Then less than 46 seconds to open the scoring: the OL player combined with Clara Mateo and beat Sigurdardottir (1st, 1-0).
The fastest goal of the Euro.
00:46 - Melvine Malard's goal for France is the fastest of EURO 2022. It is the 2nd goal scored in less than a minute in this edition after that of Finland's Linda Sällström (v Spain), that is as much as during the previous 12 EUROs.
Fast.
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Iceland reacts from a corner.
Captain Gisladottir takes Iceland's first corner kick.
His cross flies to the far post where Jonsdottir gets rid of the marking to head back.
The cross is affected (11th).
The French push to double their advantage.
Malard is in sight, she pierces the right side before sending a good cross.
Mateo throws himself but cuts Viggosdottir pushes back in disaster (20th).
Then Malard comes in front of goal and misses his shot (24th).
She was, however, offside.
A match without intensity
The meeting then loses intensity, no doubt under the effect of the scorching temperature faced by the 22 protagonists: 37°C announced in feeling.
Les Bleues fall asleep and leave control of the game to Iceland.
Pauline Peyraud-Magnin gets a hole in her aerial exit on a corner but Berglind Thorvaldsdottir misses her recovery (41st).
The French return to the locker room warned.
At the start of the second half, Sandy Baltimore found Iceland's bar with his left shot, countered by an opposing foot (54th).
Opposite, the Icelanders are still trying to find the fault on a corner.
Pauline Peyraud-Magnin again misses an aerial outing but captain Sara Bjork Gunnarsdottir misses the goal (59th).
The incoming Grace Geyoro brings the Blues out of their torpor.
His long shot finds the right post of the Icelandic goalkeeper (66th).
Melvine Malard then thinks of having scored a double after taking over Karchaoui's overflow.
However, the VAR indicates that the French was offside (69th).
France then took control of the game and it is believed that the score will not move except for Les Bleues.
Grace Geyoro even thinks she has doubled the bet but the referee refuses her goal for a severe hand while the attacker was surrounded by her opposite (88th).
And at the very end of stoppage time, it is again the VAR which offers an unexpected penalty to Iceland.
With a nice cross shot in force from the penalty spot, the Icelandic Dagny Brynjarsdottir deceives Pauline Peyraud-Magnin to equalize (90th + 12, 1-1).
A late goal that does not change the fate of Icelanders, eliminated from the Euro.
The last outing before the quarter-final against the Dutch defending champions therefore proved to be stingy in lessons, the fault of the heat wave which will have paralyzed the game.
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