France 2-1 Germany: 5 Talking Points

#3 France's individual quality is their greatest strength

Pogba, Griezmann and Hernandez combined to score

Paul Pogba gave a good account of how his season's been going. One minute, he's picking out inch perfect passes and incisive through balls and in the next, he gets caught in possession unnecessarily and gives the ball away for the first German goal.

He got better in the second half and so did his midfield partner N'Golo Kante. Matuidi was all industry yet again and his labour bore fruit as he won the men in blue a penalty in the second half.

France's first goal was one that was made in Madrid as Lucas Hernandez slalomed his way into space and whipped one furiously into the head of Antoine Griezmann. The diminutive forward instinctively helped it on over Neuer and into the goal.

Griezmann's dispatching the penalty that they were awarded subsequently inspired confidence as well. On nights like these when the going gets tough, France has enough and more individual talent in their ranks to resort to for a moment of inspiration that change the game on its head.