Football. ua presents the statistics of the meetings of the national teams of France and Argentina.

The French and Argentines have long been top teams, but have not played well with each other, and at the world championships this meeting will be only the third in history.

The first match of the team played at the debut World Cup in 1930, which was held in Uruguay. Then Argentina minimally outplayed the opponent and eventually won her group.

After that, the next time the teams met on the football field in 35 years in a friendly match, where they played in a draw.

In the 70's, the teams held five trades with each other, and at the 1978 World Cup in 1978 met for the second time in the official match - Argentina again won by answering with two balls to take the goal from Platini.

After that, for 40 years, the teams played only three times. Since their last match, held in 2009 (Argentina 2-0 victory) in the current composition of the national teams there are not so many players. The Argentines have Aguero, Di Maria, Mascherano and the author of one of the goals in that match of Leo Messi. The French have goalkeepers Mandanda (who played in that match 90 minutes) and Lloris. The only player for the two teams who played in the match in 2007 - Sergio Aguero, then released to replace at the very end of the meeting.

The last five matches between the teams 26/06/1977 ТМ Argentina - France 0: 0 6/061978 ЧМ-1978 Argentina - France 2: 1 26/03/1986 ТМ France - Argentina 2: 0 7/02/2007 ТМ France - Argentina 0: 1 11/02/2009 ТМ France - Argentina 0: 2 The whole team played 11 matches among themselves: the French defeated twice, six times the Argentines and three more matches ended in a draw.

The duel of the 1/8 finals of the 2018 World Cup France-Argentina will be held on June 30 at 17:00.