Subscribers to The Athletic are chiming in with their reaction to the game on our discussion page.
David H: Wow that was fun. Tremendous game, excellent performances from Kante, Maignan, Wimmer, Baumgartner, Saliba, Mbappe, and more. Austria will walk away with their heads held high and deservingly so; France will walk away knowing they beat a very very good Austrian team and showed their champion credentials today.
Ioannis S: Real manic, this game. Hectic, disrupted, own goal, blood, head banging, broken nose.
Lee K: Honestly don’t think France deserved all 3 (points) there. Even discounting very dodgy officiating.
Lee is far from the only subscriber writing that the refereeing appeared to favour France today…
