Kylian Mbappé sat proceedings out together with his damaged nostril and France, constructive however achingly profligate, confirmed how a lot they may want him again. The primary goalless draw on this European Championship was not wanting scoring alternatives and it should concern Didier Deschamps that, with out his talisman, the favourites had been finally blunt. They may even have misplaced to a vivid Netherlands staff if the largely English staff of officers had not, by way of a VAR test extending for greater than two and a half minutes, disallowed a possible winner from Xavi Simons in what was a wafer-thin name.
France knew…