'Frustrated' Giroud focused on qualification

'Les Bleus' were held to a 0-0 draw by minnows Luxembourg on Sunday, who are ranked 126 places below France in the FIFA world rankings, just days after thrasing Holland 4-0.

Sunday's result in Toulouse frustrated many members of the French camp but they insist that they are now set on putting the result behind them and moving forward.

Olivier Giroud told 'rmc.fr': 'There is a lot of frustration and disappointment.

'We have to be realistic, efficient. We had to open the scoring in the first half and make things easier for ourselves.

'We're going to have to win the last two games to go to the World Cup. It's never easy to qualify.'

France go into games against Bulgaria and Belarus next month at the top of their group with a one-point lead over Sweden.

PSG new boy Kylian Mbappe was also disappointed with the result, telling 'Canal Plus': 'There is a great disappointment because we had the opportunity to consolidate our first place and to keep a considerable lead on the other contenders.

'Now we have not managed to score. We are disappointed but not downed. We will get back to work in our clubs and come back to qualify in the last two games.'

Whilst Barcelona's Samuel Umtiti told the same source: 'Against the Netherlands we were all in motion, we struck. We managed a few chances (on Sunday night) but we missed.

'We had the chances, we threatened a lot on goal, but every time there was a defender or goalkeeper. We tried to do the best we could, but honestly we know we can do much better.'

The match will not doubt go down in Luxembourg's history with the minnows indebted to a fine performance from veteran goalkeeper Jonathan Joubert.