“For me now, it’s all about Senegal. “With eight third-placed teams going through, you know, we’ve still got a chance," said Arnold, who praised his players performance with the tie then delayed for more than two hours due to torrential rain.

"The delay hampered our performance in the second half but the players did their best."

Despite dominating, France were limited to just Kylian Mbappe's goal from distance in the first half, with Arnold attributing his side's defensive resilience to home work.

“Well, you know, there’s nothing I could do except I showed probably a little bit longer footage of the first half at halftime to show them where France was obviously hurting us a little bit,” Arnold explained.

“But it was more the players just had to sit and relax and keep relaxed and then get themselves obviously ready when we went back out there.”

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