The French national team had to wait for the referee to resort to VAR to cancel Andri Gudjohnsen's goal, to preserve the score in their favor after the a comeback he performed against Iceland to claim an important 2-1 World Cup qualifying victory.

A hard-fought victory for the French national team led by Didier Deschamps, where they had to hold off the onslaught of the Nordic team with Gudjohnsen's first goal, which made the French defenders see their luck and the FIFA video review ruined their night of consecration by taking away his double of the night in what seemed like a day of hell for the French.

However, the review system also had something to do with the French first goal, so the refereeing work of Portuguese referee Antonio Nobre will go down in history for having flagged two very controversial actions that ended up giving France the victory.

The truth is that the fans of the runner-up team spent a restless night, always with Jesus in their mouths, especially for the first 20 minutes of the northern Germans, as also knows them and where they should have conceded at least three goals, not to mention the visitors' first goal.

In this play, Olise trusted his back line and tried to rely on his center back, but without realizing in time that the Icelandic striker, Andri Gudjohnsen, had already done his job, beating his marker to position himself with a shot that came in to put the Gauls against the wall.

France had to row against the current

Adversity was a tough test for the French, because they had to endure the complaints of their fans for the rest of the match until almost the end of the first half, when VAR once again did its thing with a penalty called for a foul against Marcus Thuram in the Icelandic area after a dispute for the ball.

At first the play continued and it seemed that Iceland had won it and taken the lead on the scoreboard, but after consulting the video review system, the penalty was awarded to the team led by Deschamps.

There. Kylian Mbappe took the penalty and as is his custom, came out on top in the duel against the Nordic goalkeeper to score a historic goal, surpassing Therry Henry to become the second highest scorer for the French national team.

The goal at the end of the first 45 minutes motivated the French to turn the score around in the first 20 minutes of the second half when Tchouameni passed to Mbappe, who drove to the opponent's area and only served on one side for Barcola's definition that made things 2-1.

But then came the controversy when the referee went to the VAR to disallow Gudjohnsen's double in stoppage time and that meant a 2-2 draw, but when the Icelander was celebrating in style, the referee was called to the VAR for a pull on Konate before the valuable goal that turned the visitors' joy into disappointment.

The referee considered it to be a clear foul after the review and left the Icelanders without a goal in an action that, if this squad does not get a ticket to the 2026 World Cup, fate will take its toll on them as the villain of the Parc des Princes.