France vs Sweden

France vs Sweden in the Round of 32, played June 30 in East Rutherford, ended 3-0 to France behind a Kylian Mbappe brace and a goal from Bradley Barcola, handing Sweden their earliest World Cup exit since 1990.
France went into the match unbeaten, having won Group I with wins over Senegal (3-1), Iraq (3-0) and Norway (4-1), and carried that momentum straight through a Swedish side that had advanced as a third-place qualifier from Group F, where they beat Tunisia 5-1, lost 1-5 to Netherlands and drew Japan 1-1. Sweden's heavy defeat to the Dutch in the group stage foreshadowed the same defensive issues resurfacing against a sharper, more clinical French attack. Mbappe's continued scoring form through the tournament has been one of the defining individual stories of FWC26, and this result extended his run into the knockout rounds without interruption.
Track France vs Sweden for the complete story of that Round of 32 result, with the widget below tracking lineups, scoring, discipline and match statistics from the game. For Sweden, the early exit ends a tournament that never fully got going after the group stage; for France, the win set up a tighter 1-0 victory over Paraguay in the Round of 16 and a quarterfinal against Morocco, a rematch of the 2022 semifinal. Follow the page here for the full match data.