France, victory in Italy, Isak unused
The former champions of France and Italy were in action among 10 qualification games for the FIFA World Cup 2026 Friday.
The Blues met Ukraine in Wroclaw, while the legend of Azzurri Gennaro Gattuso took care of his national team for the first time with a home match against Estonia in Bergamo.
Elsewhere, striker Alexander Isak – who joined Liverpool from Newcastle for a British record of 125 million pounds Sterling on Monday – was on the Swedish team for his trip to Slovenia.
Here is what happened in FIFA 2026 World Cup qualification Results today, including scorers and some of the lights to look for, which will all start at 19:45 BST / 14:45 and / 11:45 pt.
Ukraine vs France: mbappe seals wins
The champions of 1998 and 2018 France began their campaign with a 2-0 victory thanks to a 10th minute clinical strike by Michael Olise before Kylian Mbappe followed the step eight minutes of time.
Ukraine pushed to parity between the goals and was denied an equalizer in the second half when the defender of Liverpool Ibrahima Konate erased the head of Artem Dovbyk.
Paris Saint-Germain The attackers Desire Doue and Ousmane Dembele were forced to go injury to the winners, who gave the Reds striker Hugo Ekitike his senior beginnings and welcome Iceland on Tuesday.
Italy vs Estonia: Gattuso Glee at Gain Start
The dominant Italy struck the transverse bar through the head of Mateo held back just before half-time, but compensated in style, scoring four of their five goals on the second margin in a 5-0 victory through Hease Kean, Retagui, Giacomo Raspadori and Alessandro Bastoni.
The Al-Qadsiah striker Retagui also marked his first and his second country with a precise finish, putting the hosts three points behind Israel Placed and six of the leaders of the group I Norway with a match in hand.
Italy follows its second consecutive home victory by visiting Israel, who won 4-0 in Moldova, Monday in Debrecen.
Slovenia vs Sweden: Isak in the reserve
Isak has not yet played this season because of the long saga surrounding his move to red And the attacker stayed on the bench while Sweden underwent a late backdrop in Slovenia.
Mussel winger Anthony Elanga struck the opening of the 18th minute of a pass from the midfielder of Brighton & Hove Albion, Yasin Ayari, who restored the advance of visitors in the 73rd minute after the shooting of Sandi Lovric was embarrassing by goalkeeper Robin Olsen for the equalizer of the Slovède in the 46th minute.
The replacement Zan Vipotnik drew the first time from Manchester United's head, striker Benjamin Sesko to seal a 2-2 draw in the 90th minute. Blagult Jon Dahl Tomasson's manager suggested that he could use Isak in Kosovo on Monday.
2026 World Cup qualification results
Group B: Switzerland 4-0 Kosovo (Manuel Akanji 22, Breel Embolo 25, 45, Sylvan Widmer 39)
Group C: Denmark 0-0 Scotland
Greece 5-1 Bélarus (Konstantinos Karetsa 3, Vangelis Pavlidis 17, Tasos Bakasetas 21, Dimitrios Kourbelis 36, Christos Tzolis 63; German Barkovskiy 72)
Group D: Iceland 5-0 Azerbaijan (Victor Palsson 45, Isak Bergmann Johanning 47, 56, Albert Gudmundsson 66, Kristian Hlysson 73)
Group I: Moldova 0-4 Israel (Dor Peretz 15, Manor Salomon 35, Tai Baribo 59, Oscar Gloukh 77)
Group L: Faroid islands 0-1 Croatia (Andrej Kramaric 31)
Montenegro 0-2 CCHEA (Lukas Cerv 3, Vaclav Cerny 90 + 6)
2025-09-05 23:44:00
