World Cup Group C: France and Denmark advance as Peru beat Australia

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Denmark 0-0 France

Denmark and France played out one of the less memorable games of Russia 2018 so far but a 0-0 draw will have pleased both sides' coaches and fans.

The point was enough to give France top spot in Group C and Denmark came into the game knowing a point would guarantee them a last-16 spot.

France are to win the tournament outright, while the online bookmaker has priced Denmark at

As it happened, Australia's defeat by Peru meant they could have lost this game and still advanced but they now march on and are 18 games unbeaten.

You can often tell the quality of a match at a packed stadium by when the first Mexican wave starts: 21 minutes was the answer here and it was probably overdue.

But then this entire World Cup has been overdue a stinker and this game had all the ingredients.

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• France have gone unbeaten in the group stage in consecutive World Cup tournaments for the first time (P3 W2 D1 in 2014 and 2018).
• This was the first 0-0 of the 2018 World Cup, making it the longest wait from the start of a single tournament for one – there had been 36 games played prior to today.
• Kasper Schmeichel (two in three games) has now kept more clean sheets for Denmark at the World Cup than his father Peter (one in five games).
• There were just four shots (inc. blocks) from inside the box in this game (four for France, none for Denmark); the fewest in any game so far at the 2018 World Cup.
• Steve Mandanda became the oldest player to debut for France at the World Cup, aged 33 years and 90 days.

Australia 0-2 Peru