Norway vs France FIFA World Cup 2026 Live Score: NOR take on FRA in Boston. (AP)

Norway vs France, FIFA World Cup 2026 Match Today Live Score: Norway have made a host of changes to their starting XI for the final group stage against France at the FIFA World Cup 2026. Norway boss Stale Solbakken had made a whopping 10 changes to his side, including asking Erling Haaland to be on the bench for a game that was pegged as a Haaland vs Kylian Mbappe clash at the Boston Stadium. The match will see a clash between the top teams in the Group I and will ultimately decide which teams finishes as the group winner, which in turn will decide who they face in the round of 32.

Haaland and Mbappe have already made their mark in the tournament, scoring four goals each in the previous two games, and both will be head-to-head with the ambition of continuing that run.

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France beat Senegal 3-1 in their first game of the tournament and followed that up with a 3-0 win over Iraq. Norway, on the other hand, beat Iraq 4-1 to start off their campaign and then beat Senegal 3-2, thus sealing their qualification to the next round.

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How Norway football fans turned to their Viking history for FIFA World Cup

For about an hour on Sunday night, Times Square became a Norwegian fjord. Thousands of Norway football fans in bright red jerseys had invaded midtown Manhattan. They congregated on the Red Steps, waited for a cue on the drums from Ole Froystad, a man in a Viking hat, and then in unison let out a guttural chant of ‘ro’ (pronounced ruuh) while mimicking a rower’s motion. Someone blasted a Norwegian song called Vikingblod, and fans joined along.

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