Gabriele Marcotti

56 goals, just one behind Giroud's 57 and he's done so in less games too.

However, Hugo Ekotike added to his tally for France tonight.

Here he is speaking after the game.

Julien Laurent is still with us and watching this game for us.

And Franck Leboeuf, who won the World Cup with France, if you didn't know, I'm not sure it's been mentioned before on this show, is joining us now.

And so let us start with the World Cup winner.

What's your takeaway from tonight's game with the France perspective?

Franck, what would you like to talk about?

OK, before I get Jules' take on France, I do want to talk to you about Brazil.

And we just ended there where Frank did.

That's what we were looking at.

If Brazil can cut it with Europe's elite.

And the answer to that, not only based on this performance, but based on what we have seen in the World Cup qualifying cycle in Commonwealth and the difficulties that they have had, the answer is no.

It is not a team that you fear.

It is not a team that really demands respect from you.

you see Brazil out on the field and of course they're talented players and you got Vinny Junior and Rafinha, Mateus Cunha and you can bring this guy you can bring that guy so in the front end it would seem like they have enough but when you start looking backwards and you look at the midfield and you look at the back line and you see you you start asking questions you kind of go uh oh

There are problems here.

There are issues in terms of the balance of this team.

How do you create enough for that front four, for that front three, to be able to exploit some of the talent that you have in Vinny Jr., that you have in Rafinha, that you have in players that make a difference on a weekly basis in La Liga, and yet they haven't quite been, in particular Vinny Jr., haven't quite been the player that we thought they were gonna be with the national team, and more importantly, Brazilian fans thought that they were gonna be

with Brazil.