Kylian Mbappe Terrorises Bafana Bafana as France Schools South Africa in Footballing Lesson

• World champions France taught South Africa a footballing lesson in an international friendly played in Lille on Tuesday night with a 5-0 victory
• Goals from Kylian Mbappe (2), Olivier Giroud, Wissam Ben Yedder and Matteo Gendouzi were enough to see the world champions make light work of an overmatched Bafana Bafana
• This was France's seventh win in a row, while South Africa is now three matches without one

France was simply on. another level as it demolished South Africa 5-0 in an international friendly in Lille on Tuesday night.

A brace from the unstoppable Kylian Mbappe, as well as a goal apiece from Olivier Giroud, Wissam Ben Yedder and Matteo Gendouzi saw the home team demolish the visitors in the original footballing lesson.

In a match that Sports Brief observed, Les Bleus hardly had to step out of third gear, underlining their dominance of a hopelessly out of depth Bafana Bafana side. At one point, it would have been fairer if the referee threw in a second ball onto the pitch to make it something of a fairer contest.

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The only South Africa player who will come out of the match with his head held up is goalkeeper Ronwen Williams, who's excellent goalkeeping kept actually halved what could have been the actual score. Khuliso Mudau, who was not nearly the worst player for the visitors, was given a straight red card late in the match, compounding a humiliating night for South African football.

On the brighter side, the result showed were South Africa is on the international football pecking order. There is no point playing minnows, and it appears that the South African Football Association will have to start looking for tougher opponents in future friendly internationals

(Un)Fortunately, the scoreline equalled Bafana's record defeat since readmission in 1992. They lost 5-0 to Brazil back in March 2014 at Soccer City.

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As reported on Sports Brief, the nations have met on four previous occasions, with two coming at the FIFA World Cup, coincidentally hosted by each country.

Les Bleus boasts two victories to Bafana Bafana's solitary win, which happened at the historic 2010 FIFA World Cup in Mzansi.