体坛英语新闻:France come back to beat Iceland 3-2
PARIS, May 27 (Xinhua) -- France struggled on their first warm-up for Euro 2012 as they came back from two goals down to beat Iceland 3-2 on Sunday at Valenciennes, France.
Birkir Bjarnason and Kolbeinn Sigthorsson put the visitors 2-0 ahead in 28th and 33 minutes, as France looked completely at a loss against their lowly ranked opponents in the first half.
France gathered up the second half as Mathieu Debuchy eased the burden of coach Laurent Blanc with a 52th-minute goal to make it 2-1.
Franck Ribery levelled it up with a lob, the first goal for his country since Arpil, 2009, and the game seemed to end with a draw.
It was Valencia back Adil Rami lift France's hope when he received a knockdown from Olivier Giroud and powered in the winner with only three minutes to go.
France extended their unbeaten run to 19 matches and will face Serbia on Thursday and Estonia on June 5.
The European Championships will be kicked off on June 8 at Ukraine and Poland with France to face England on June 11 in a Group D matchup.?
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