France Doesn't Stray From Its Championship Formula In Beating Germany to Open Euros

There is something slightly odd about this France side, in that the scores of its games so rarely reflect what has just happened. No team seems quite so often to hammer an opponent by a single goal. Germany may have won the shot count and the possession battle in Tuesday's 1–0 triumph for Les Bleus in the teams' first match of what's the competition's most difficult group. But this was rarely a game Germany looked like winning, with it never quite able to put France under pressure and always appearing vulnerable to the counter.