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 opponents¹ in the first half.

 

France gathered up the second half as Mathieu Debuchy eased² 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 extended³ 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.?

1 opponents   

n.对手，敌手( opponent的名词复数 )；反对者

参考例句：

• Somehow he always manages to outwit his opponents. 他反正总能设法智胜对手。
• to use strong-arm tactics against your political opponents 用强制手段对付政敌

2 eased   

adj. 放松的 动词ease的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• After the patient received acupuncture treatment,his spasms eased off somewhat. 病人接受针刺治疗后，痉挛稍微减轻了。
• The news that her child was safe eased her mind. 孩子平安的消息使她放心了。

3 extended   

adj.延伸的；伸展的；延长的；扩大的v.延伸(extend的过去式和过去分词)；伸展；延长

参考例句：

• an extended lunch hour 延长了的午餐时间
• France has greatly extended its influence in world affairs. 在世界事务中，法国的影响已大大地扩大了。 来自《简明英汉词典》