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France's four-goal blitz stuns Belgium

Belgium had this one under control for the better part of 77 minutes in Paris. Then Michael Olise decided otherwise, and four goals in 13 frantic minutes turned a Nations League night from forgettable to one for the group chats.

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The collapse

There's slow and there's whatever Belgium's backline did in the final quarter of this one. According to Capital Sports, France needed just 13 minutes to score four times and flip a result that looked settled, the kind of spell that gets replayed on loop long after the final whistle.

Olise was the name doing the damage. He scored twice in the burst, each finish sharper and more composed than the last, the sort of clinical edge that's defined his breakout stretch since arriving at Bayern Munich. Capital Sports did not detail the other two scorers or confirm the exact final scoreline, but the shape of the comeback is clear enough: Belgium went from comfortable to chasing shadows inside a quarter of an hour.

Olise's rise, in real time

The 24-year-old has 23 caps and seven goals for France, numbers that now carry a Nations League brace built in front of a home Paris crowd. Capital Sports credits his move to Bayern Munich with sharpening his end product further still, though exact season tallies for his time at Crystal Palace and Bayern weren't detailed in that report. Either way, the output explains why Zinedine Zidane keeps finding a spot for him in the biggest moments.

Zidane's evening

For Zidane, watching his side need a four-goal avalanche to beat Belgium is not exactly the tidy, controlled performance any manager wants. But results like this travel. A Nations League night that looked like a damp squib turned, in the space of 13 minutes, into exactly the sort of chaotic, Olise-driven finish that gets a fixture remembered long after the group stage ends.

Belgium will have questions to answer about a defence that folded late. France, for now, just have a player in red-hot form and a result nobody saw coming at the 75-minute mark.

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Will Olise's form force Zidane to build France around him?

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