France 3–0 Iraq — World Cup 2026

Matchday 12 · Group I · 2026-06-22

France

xG 3.59

HT 1–03 – 0

Iraq

xG 1.38

France Kylian Mbappé 14′, Kylian Mbappé 54′, Ousmane Dembélé 66′

Lincoln Financial Field · 68,324 attendance

The story

France made a statement — a 3–0 dismantling of Iraq.

Expected goals race

France Iraq ● goal

Cumulative expected goals, minute by minute. ESPN's free feed has no xG, so each shot's xG is estimated with a naive distance-and-angle logistic model fitted on shot coordinates from the play-by-play.

Shot map

France (attacking →) Iraq (attacking ←) size = xG · star = goal

France · match stats · Iraq

55.6 Possession 44.4

19 Shots 4

5 On Target 0

4 Corners 2

8 Fouls 4

1 Offsides 0

0 Saves 2

0 Yellows 1

0 Reds 0

What the model expected

Pre-match Elo: France 2067, Iraq 1638. The model priced this France 89% / draw 7% / Iraq 3%, most likely score 3–0. The model called it. The result moves 7 Elo points from Iraq to France — that flows straight into the next round of tournament simulations.

Timeline

6' YELLOWAmir Al Ammari (Iraq) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

14' GOALGoal! France 1, Iraq 0. Kylian Mbappé (France) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Michael Olise.

26' SUBSubstitution, Iraq. Ali Al Hamadi replaces Aymen Hussein because of an injury.

54' GOALGoal! France 2, Iraq 0. Kylian Mbappé (France) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ousmane Dembélé.

60' SUBSubstitution, Iraq. Rebin Sulaka replaces Zaid Tahseen.

60' SUBSubstitution, Iraq. Youssef Amyn replaces Zaid Ismael.

66' GOALGoal! France 3, Iraq 0. Ousmane Dembélé (France) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Michael Olise with a through ball.

68' SUBSubstitution, France. Désiré Doué replaces Ousmane Dembélé.

68' SUBSubstitution, France. Rayan Cherki replaces Michael Olise.

68' SUBSubstitution, Iraq. Aimar Sher replaces Amir Al Ammari.

69' SUBSubstitution, Iraq. Marko Farji replaces Ibrahim Bayesh.

83' SUBSubstitution, France. Maghnes Akliouche replaces Bradley Barcola.

83' SUBSubstitution, France. Malo Gusto replaces Jules Koundé.

90'+1' SUBSubstitution, France. Marcus Thuram replaces Kylian Mbappé.

Lineups

France

4-2-3-1

16Mike Maignan G
17William Saliba CD-L
4Dayot Upamecano CD-R
3Lucas Digne LB
5Jules Koundé RB
11Michael Olise AM
14Adrien Rabiot LM
6Manu Koné RM
10Kylian Mbappé F
12Bradley Barcola AM-L
7Ousmane Dembélé AM-R

Subs: Désiré Doué, Rayan Cherki, Maghnes Akliouche, Malo Gusto, Marcus Thuram

Iraq

4-1-4-1

22Ahmed Basil G
5Akam Hashim CD-L
4Zaid Tahseen CD-R
16Amir Al-Ammari DM
23Merchas Doski LB
3Hussein Ali RB
14Zidane Iqbal CM-L
24Zaid Ismael CM-R
8Ibrahim Bayesh LM
11Ahmed Qasim RM
18Aymen Hussein F

Subs: Ali Al-Hamadi, Rebin Sulaka, Youssef Amyn, Aimar Sher, Marko Farji

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Generated automatically from public match data. Stats: ESPN · Results: openfootball · xG: own naive model (distance + angle).