Group A: FRA-NOR-KOR-NIG

[Kevin S]

I suppose there's little chance of Nigeria making it through here - the other three teams are ranked in the top 15 and Nigeria themselves are down in 38th. But there's always a chance those are skewed and Nigeria can give the other three a scare.

I wouldn't like to call this group.

[Nesta]

FRA-KOR, then. Anyone bothering with the opening ceremony?

[Patrick Thistle]

I'm tuning in for the game.

I hope Wendy Renard is playing for France. She's awesome.

[ursus arctos]

She's starting

[Patrick Thistle]

Ooh good pundit line up. I like Alex Scott when she's on MOTD. And Dion Dublin will be good value as the token male.

[Patrick Thistle]

She's starting

Yay!

[Patrick Thistle]

Quite disappointed that Delphine Cascarino isn't related to Tony.

[Nesta]

The ref's surname is 'Umpierrez'

[Patrick Thistle]

France looking pretty good here.

[Kevin S]

Korea struggling to get it beyond the halfway line at the moment. I don't think it'll be long before France take the lead.

[Patrick Thistle]

1-0

[Kevin S]

The ref's surname is 'Umpierrez'

Glorious nominative determinism.

[Amor de Cosmos]

1–-0 You get the sense this could be cricket score.

[Patrick Thistle]

Yep. If they keep up this tempo it will be a rout

[Kevin S]

Wow, my iPlayer stream is a fair way behind it seems. France have worked out pretty quickly how to win this match. Let Korea have the ball along their back four and then win it as soon as they try to get it into the midfield, launching an immediate attack. That goal came from at least the third time they've done that.

[Patrick Thistle]

That's some pass from Renard to Cascarino.

[Tony C]

I'm tuning in for the game.

I hope Wendy Renard is playing for France. She's awesome.

Great defender and dangerous at set pieces, too. France clearly like a fox in the box.

[Kevin S]

Korea have seemingly brought the midfield back closer to the defence, so they've got more chance of winning the ball back again.

It's not going to help them score, but it might help keep the score down.

[Patrick Thistle]

Shambolic corner, that

[Patrick Thistle]

One off the training ground. 2- 0

[Patrick Thistle]

VAR check. Booo

[Kevin S]

I'm going out on a limb here, but I can't see South Korea getting back into this match.

[Patrick Thistle]

Fuck off VAR

[Jah Womble]

She was level, surely?

[Patrick Thistle]

She had a fucking toe offside there. Bollocks.