France beats Paraguay, Mbappé scores 19th World Cup goal

sportsJul 5, 2026722,551

Kylian Mbappé converted a penalty as France beat Paraguay 1-0 to reach the World Cup quarter-finals. France coach Didier Deschamps praised his side for keeping their cool in heatwave conditions after the match, according to AFP. Paraguay were widely criticized for aggressive, provocative play while receiving no yellow cards, a point noted in multiple eyewitness posts and reports. French and international outlets highlighted the Blues' sang-froid and Mbappé's composure from the spot. L'Équipe rated the match referee 1/10, citing a failure to issue cautions during the game. The result sends France into the last eight and leaves questions about officiating in a match many described as ugly and ill-tempered.

Manuel Veth

@manuelveth.bsky.social

Now France are protesting Michael Olise’s yellow card from the Paraguay game. I think FIFA might pretty quick regret this Balogun decision. Something about opening a can of worms.

139744d ago

Fight The Sadistocracy31

It’s funny to see the entire world find out in real time what Americans have known for a decade now… Everything he touches turns to shit. Everything. And now he just tainted the USA team.

Demps23

I think every team should protest every yellow or red card given during this World Cup....create chaos for FIFA!

mr-e-mike.bsky.social17

That yellow card was total bs tho

doctorwho123.bsky.social17

can Germany and Croatia complain now about phantom fouls and micro grazing of a head on a ball as well? hell can Italy now have the entire 2002 finals replayed seeing as they were jobbed by a corrupt fucking ref? how about W. Germany in 1966 with the maybe no goal in extra time in the finals?

amaronechianti.bsky.social16

All teams should be protesting cards now that the precedent has been set.

LesnielBC 🇨🇦🇩🇰13

I hope so. Maybe Canada should protest the fact that as a host country we had to play TWO matches in the USA. It doesn’t matter we didn’t tie or beat the Swiss. Rules are for schmucks. 🙄

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Kevin Morris3

Hey if FIFA ends up having to change its bad rules around in-tournament suspensions for yellow cards and red cards that will be a silver lining. bsky.app/profile/manu...

metok28.bsky.social2

Corrupt FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, needs to be fired after FIFA 2026 is over.He is a blight on the reputation of FIFA!

Brent Toderian

@brenttoderian.bsky.social

“This was a marvellous tournament for Canada. First World Cup draw, first World Cup win, first knockout game win, first round of 16 appearance, despite injuries at key positions. The nation came alive in so many places & we should remember that feeling. This was incredible.” @brucearthur.bsky.social

12445d ago

Manuel Bompard

@mbompard.bsky.social

L’élection présidentielle qui vient va être un peu comme le match d’hier soir entre la France et le Paraguay 👇

5744d ago

freeandequalfr.bsky.social2

@mbompard.bsky.social NE CHANGEZ RIEN 🇫🇷✊ #AEC #FollowBackInsoumis #presidentielles2027 #Melenchon2027

insous71.bsky.social1

Manu il va falloir désactiver les commentaires sur Facebook pour tous les députés FI🐢✊️❤️

Arnold1

100% d’accord. (Attention à bien respecter les consignes du coach, c’est bien de le dire, c’est plus difficile à appliquer)

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin

@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social

Watched the France Paraguay game with a bunch of teens (including mine). Had literally no exposure to that man and his chaos all day long. It was so sane and relaxing and honestly a pretty decent way to do a non-4th celebration. Highly recommend.

7644d ago

Hopeful4

I am in (Europe/ France now) and it feels so good to be away from the intensity of USA

Neil Bowen1

The France Paraguay game kind of reminded me of US politics - dirty with lots of cheating

Gareth Beamish

@adcpainting.bsky.social

France v Paraguay. Paraguay put in one of the most remarkable performances of the World Cup. To play like that for 90 minutes and not get a single yellow card is beyond impressive.

6444d ago

Gareth Beamish9

Arsene Wenger was in the stadium. Even he would have seen some of those incidents.

spartychemist.bsky.social8

does help when you have a mediocre garbage referee

Diana MV 🇳🇱🧡🦁🧡🇳🇱6

And not a single red card either

Blue Dot3

Amazing sportsmanship. Way to go teams!

Vox Populi, Vox Dei3

Reminded me of Uruguay too. If they can't win fairly, they will turn really ugly very quickly! Is there something about South American football that makes them play like that!!?! 🫨

1001mississippi.bsky.social2

Ref was sh!t and France didn’t have to use force just pure football strength even at 65 mins into the game www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/co...

Dean Baker

@deanbaker13.bsky.social

quite a contrast between Cape Verde against Argentina and Paraguay against France. Both were playing against two great teams that had far more experience and talent. Cape Verde stepped up and gave Argentina a serious challenge. Paraguay played like thugs.

5744d ago

CincoDeMaio

@cincodemaio.bsky.social

Not to mention everyone in a CONCACAF country smiling at the world’s reaction to Paraguay France as though that isnt the most typical match in this hemisphere

5744d ago

Cédric Mas

@cedricmas.bsky.social

On notera que Rayan Cherki (22 ans) montre une meilleure capacité de compréhension de la situation géopolitique actuelle de la France que Mélenchon, Roussel… (Ceci est un test pour débusquer les Fanzouzes LFistes ou PC qui vont venir répondre « ah bon y a un pb avec le Paraguay ? »)

5544d ago

sergueinov.eurosky.social1

C'est clair. Il a peut-être écouté le Collimateur, le premier sur les conflits oubliés ? Poke @alexjubelin.bsky.social

ABC News Australia

@news.abc.net.au

For many football fans, this World Cup has been one of exclusion and travel bans

3045d ago

Le Monde

@lemonde.fr

France-Paraguay : la presse internationale salue le « sang froid » de Kylian Mbappé et des Bleus face au jeu dur et provocant de l’Albirroja

3444d ago

Maximilien2

Jeu "dur et prvocant"... Bel euphémisme. Et pour l'arbitrage aux ordres d'Infantino, que fait-on. On ne peut pas "oublier" autant d'actes d'antijeu d'une équipe qui a passé 90mn à "défendre". Ou alors on a des ordre de la saloperie trumpiste.

tarektoverso.bsky.social1

Et moi qui croyais que les français issus de l'immigration étaient des sauvages! On m'aurait menti!

Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺

@codfather.bsky.social

Oh no, FIFA as corrupt as ever - I wonder who was paying who to make that happen 🤔. They are as bent as a nine bob/dollar note, the lot of them. That ref in the France game was obviously being paid, in no other game on the planet would those Paraguay thugs stayed on the pitch, they were a disgrace.

3044d ago

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)

@sundersays.bsky.social

The once great Paraguayan keeper Chilavert challenged over his racist comments that Paraguay played a team "from France" in 98 but now a team "from Africa". Premised on a weird misremembrance of France's famously multiethnic 98 World Cup winners! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

3344d ago

randomname99.bsky.social2

Can someone explain South American racism to me? Do they think they're white? That they wouldn't be hated as inferior by white nationalists if they came to the West? IDGI

Pete Thompson 1

Dreadful. After watching Paraguay’s attempt at football last night, nothing coming from their camp can be taken seriously.

Kehaar1

entho-nationalist purity is a wierd hill for a south american to sit on

Peter Tag1

so did he comment before, or after losing to that team? Sounds like sore-loser-talk to me.

Ben Steiner

@bensteiner00.bsky.social

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2645d ago

Alex Stewart

@afhstewart.bsky.social

Or is it because France are much better than Paraguay (whose head coach actually organised a brilliant defence vs Germany) and Morocco are much better than Canada? The point kind of stands with Brazil but they have been getting progressively worse under Brazilian coaches too

3144d ago

Alex Stewart16

The original post is even more incomprehensible given how much Canada have progressed recently, partly due to Marsch and partly due to an improving talent pool etc.

Ocean (they/he)3

Interested to know how foreign vs domestic coach win % is affected when correlated against number of bat species

SixSeconds.ca1

I mean, 23 World Cups, never a foreign coach. There's *some*thing there.

Hunter Walker

@hunterw.bsky.social

It was going well! But this ridiculous episode and the ref letting Paraguay attack France were not up to any normal league standard!

2744d ago

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