Well, it had to happen sooner or later. After 12 days of largely entertaining football, plenty of goals and no shortage of incident, the 2018 World Cup finals served up its first stalemate. Match 37, to give the fixture its official Fifa title, ended goalless and was played out to a soundtrack of whistles and rumblings of discontent.
The headline facts are that Didier Deschamps’ side are through to the knockout stage as group winners, albeit without delivering a performance in any of their three matches to suggest that they are capable of winning the tournament, and Denmark can also look forward to playing in the last 16 for the first time since 2002.
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