At the front of the net, Kylian Mbappé sent a shaky cross that was turned into his own goal by Maximilian Wober in the 38th minute. This was the first goal.

It was the second own goal of the even

t. Antonio Rudiger of Germany scored the only goal for Scotland in their 4-1 loss to start Euro 2024 on Friday.

In what was mostly a boring first 45 minutes, chances were hard to come by.

N’Golo Kanté, who started in midfield for Al-Ittihhad, became only the second France player at a major event who wasn’t from France. The first was Andre-Pierre Gignac of Tigres at the 2008 World Cup.

In the eighth minute, Mbappé led France’s counţerattack down the right, but his low shot went into the side netting. Soon after, France came back down that same side, and Theo Hernandez’s ball went across the goal, but no one was there to meet it.

Even though Mbappé and Hernandez’s link-up play showed some promise, Austria stopped a lot of France’s aţţack in the first 45 minutes.

Austria was able to handle the French aţţack and sometimes look scary on the counter.

They had their best chance of the half in the 35th minute. Michael Gregoritsch sent in a great cross for Marcel Sabitzer as he came down the left side. When the Borussia Dortmund player went down, he blocked Christoph Baumgartner’s way and ran in on Mike Maignan by himself. However, his first touch was heavy, and Maignan was able to clear the dang£r.