French defender Benjamin Pavard said that\u00a0Australia were a tougher opponent than the USA ahead of their FIFA World Cup opener on Saturday.<\/p>\n
France was drawn 1-1 with the USA, who failed to qualify for this year’s World Cup finals, last Sunday.<\/p>\n
They will play against Australia\u00a0in their opening Group C match this Saturday.<\/p>\n
“This [USA] was reminiscent of Australia but I think Australia are better than the USA,” Pavard said, as quoted by SBS The World Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n “It’s the same kind of context, a physical team. They didn’t need many chances to bury one.<\/p>\n “We’ll retain the fact that we didn’t lose, had we lost we may have had some doubts.<\/p>\n “Now we are preparing for the game against Australia, which is coming up soon.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" French defender Benjamin Pavard said that\u00a0Australia were a tougher opponent than the USA ahead of their FIFA World Cup opener on Saturday. France was drawn 1-1 with the USA, who failed to qualify for this year’s World Cup finals, last Sunday. They will play against Australia\u00a0in their opening Group C match this Saturday. “This [USA] was reminiscent of Australia but I think Australia are better than the USA,” Pavard said, as quoted by SBS The World Game. “It’s the same kind of context, a physical team. They didn’t need many chances to bury one. “We’ll retain the fact that we didn’t lose, had we lost we may have had some … Continue reading “French defender Benjamin Pavard: Australia tougher opponents than the USA”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":13777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[637,110,1570],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}