France won her World Cup qualification game against Ukraine. Michael Olise, who connects to his achievements at Bayern Munich, has a large part of this.
France can also rely on Michael Olise: The vice world champion also won 2-0 (1-0) against Ukraine thanks to an early hit by Bayern Munich in Polish in Breslau in Poland and thus successfully started the qualification for the 2026 World Cup. Olise had already presented himself in the Bundesliga with three goals on the first two match days in a strong shape.
France’s national coach Didier Deschamps found words of praise for his team after the game – however, Olise emphasized again. “Michael beams in everything he does: his movements, his processes, his pass quality, which enables strikers to get many balls,” enthused the 56-year-old.
Deschamps new starting eleven pays off
Due to the Russian war of aggression, the Ukrainian national team still does not play their home games in their own country. In the World Cup qualification, the association dodges three times to Wroclaw three times, where the Ukrainians had not lost in three “home games” before.
Olise (10th) and captain Kylian Mbappé (82nd) now added the first defeat to Ukraine there with their goals. Compared to the victory over the DFB team in the game for third place on the Nations League (2-0), France’s coach Didier Deschamps changed his starting eleven in seven positions.
Meet Olise and Mbappé
One of the new ones was Bavaria’s Olise, who used the French first good opportunity to take the lead. After a strong preparatory work by PSG attacker Bradley Barcola, the Munich man pushed in from the penalty point without any problems. After that, France then remained clear.
After the change of sides, the Ukrainians came into play better and better – and very good chances. Ibrahima Konaté prevented the equalization with a header rescue act on the line (65th), just a minute later Illja Zabarni failed on the post. Only in the final phase did Mbappé provide relaxation.