PARIS — Strike partners Antoine Griezmann and Olivier Giroud scored as France began its World Cup warmup program with a comfortable 2-0 home win against Wales in a friendly on Friday. Both have struggled for their clubs, with Griezmann lacking goals for Atletico Madrid and Giroud hardly managing to get a game for Arsenal. But in the continued absence of Karim Benzema for France they still work very well in tandem for Les Bleus. France qualified top of its qualifying group while Wales failed to make the playoffs. “That’s the best team we’ve ever played against,” Wales coach Chris Coleman said of France.

Source: National Post November 10, 2017 22:07 UTC