Denmark v France, 26 June 2018

Kick-off: 5.00pm local Denmark v France was Match 37 of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Refereeing team: Referee: Sandro Ricci (Brazil) Assistant Referee 1: Emerson de Carvalho (Brazil) Assistant Referee 2: Marcelo Van Gasse (Brazil) Fourth Official: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy) Reserve AR: Mauro Tonolini (Italy) VAR: Mauro Vigliano (Italy) AVAR 1: Wilton Sampaio (Brazil) AVAR 2: Carlos Astroza (Chile) AVAR 3: Tiago Martins (Portugal) With Peru facing Australia at the same time to complete the Group C fixtures, this was the first goalless draw after 38 games of this World Cup finals; a new competition record for most games played from the start of a World Cup finals before the first nil-nil draw. Prior to kick-off, it was known that a drawn game would confirm that both France and Denmark would reach the knock-out stages. The official FIFA stats showed that France had four shots on target in this game, while Denmark only had one. In their 19th game at the World Cup finals, this was Denmark's first-ever goalless draw. France had now gone unbeaten in the group stage in consecutive World Cup finals for the first time. Aged 33 years and 90 days, France goalkeeper Steve Mandanda had previously been an unused sub in 19 games at major tournaments (Euro 2008, 2012 and 2016 and World Cup 2010 and 2018) before making his first appearance in this game. Undoubtedly the most boring game of the 2018 World Cup.