James Richardson

We know he's a tactician.

He'll have something up his sleeve.

Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what happens there.

Austria, of course, are in action this Tuesday night, taking on Jordan in the other match in this group.

What a magnificent start then for Argentina.

Leo Messi.

Anything else you want to add before we get on to the other matches played today, which are pretty good themselves?

No, moving on.

Next up, we're on to Group I, France, Norway, Senegal and Iraq.

France got their World Cup campaign underway on Tuesday against Senegal in a game which some people, Tom Williams, were talking up as a potential repeat of the banana skin which befell them back in 2002.

Same opponent, Senegal.

Didn't work out that way.

That's L'Equipe's headline Wednesday morning.

You speak French, Tom.

What's going on there?

It was a glorious second half for France.

They took a while to get going, though.

A, Senegal in the first 45 minutes, arguably the better side.

Right.

Well, that was what I was going to ask.