Mbappé watches from bench as France and Netherlands produce Euro 2024's 1st scoreless draw

Kylian Mbappé watched from the substitutes' bench as France and the Netherlands finished 0-0 in a heavyweight European Championship clash on Friday in Leipzig, Germany.

Antoine Griezmann missed France's best chances while Xavi Simons had a goal ruled out for the Dutch in the first goalless draw of the tournament.

It leaves both teams on four points in Group D after their second match. It also ensured Poland was the first team eliminated. Poland was beaten by Austria 3-1 earlier Friday and is assured of finishing bottom of the group, even if it beats France in its final group game.

France's buildup was dominated by speculation on whether Mbappé would play after the team captain broke his nose in their opening 1-0 win over Austria.

Mbappé trained wearing a face mask on Thursday and coach Didier Deschamps was optimistic he'd be available. But Deschamps evidently decided it was not worth the risk to play Mbappé in a game his team had no need to win.

France enjoyed its best period of pressure after the break, when Aurelien Tchouameni headed over, goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen denied Griezmann from close range, and Ousmane Dembele went close.

Then Xavi fired the ball in at the other end in the 69th on a rebound after Mike Maignan saved Memphis Depay's effort. Dutch celebrations were cut short, however, because Denzel Dumfries, who was offside, got in Maignan's way for attempting to save Xavi's shot.

Ukraine 2, Slovakia 1

Ukraine's third comeback triumph in four competitive games in 2024 kept it in contention at the European Championship on Friday as Roman Yaremchuk's goal sealed a 2-1 victory over Slovakia in Duesseldorf, Germany.

After two 2-1 comeback wins in the playoffs in March to reach Euro 2024, beating Slovakia by the same score revives the team's campaign. Its players are hoping to show Ukrainians' resilience at the tournament, more than two years on from Russia's full-scale invasion of its country.

Ukraine's poor goal difference following a 3-0 loss to Romania on Monday meant another defeat would have put it on the brink of elimination.

Playing in heavy rain, Slovakia took the lead in the 17th minute with a header from Ivan Schranz, who also scored the only goal in its surprise 1-0 win over Belgium four days earlier.

Oleksandr Zinchenko then crossed low for Mykola Shaparenko to score Ukraine's first goal of the tournament in the 54th.

Shaparenko played his part in the second goal, too, sending a long pass over the top for Yaremchuk, who controlled the ball with his first touch before prodding it past goalkeeper Martin Dubravka.

Slovakia is level with Ukraine and Romania on three points in Group E. Romania and Belgium meet on Saturday.

No chance on Schranz header

Ukraine head coach Serhiy Rebrov made four changes to the team which lost to Romania but the same fragility in defense remained, at least to begin with.

Goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin, in for Real Madrid's Andriy Lunin after errors against Romania, made a series of saves early on but could do nothing to stop Schranz's header.

Schranz was left free at the far post when his marker Zinchenko jumped to intercept a cross which flew over his head.

Ukraine pushed forward after conceding but was let down by inconsistent finishing. Right back Oleksandr Tymchyk came closest when his shot was diverted onto the post by Dubravka.

Zinchenko was at fault for the first goal but pivotal to the second, overlapping on the left flank to receive the ball and cross low for midfielder Shaparenko, who found space to score his first international goal in nearly three years.

Bringing Yaremchuk off the bench to replace the mostly ineffective Artem Dovbyk changed the game again as he surged past the Slovakian defence to score the winner.

Austria 3, Poland 1

Austria boosted its last-16 hopes at the European Championship by defeating Poland 3-1 on Friday in Berlin, eliminating the Poles in the group stage.

Gernot Trauner, Christoph Baumgartner and Marko Arnautovic scored for Austria while Krzysztof Piatek had Poland's first-half equalizer.

Robert Lewandowski, who missed Poland's first match against the Netherlands due to an injury, came on in the second half but failed to make an impact, and was booked after just five minutes on the pitch.

Poland's slim chance of surviving the group stage disappeared hours later when the Netherlands and France drew 0-0, which ensured the Poles will finish last in Group D with one match remaining.

Austria, fresh off losing to France, came out blazing and took the lead within 10 minutes when Trauner headed in a cross from Philipp Mwene.

The Poles clawed their way back and leveled just before the half-hour mark, with Piatek slotting in a rebound from close range.

Polish fans roared as their record goal-scorer Lewandowski rose from the bench 15 minutes into the second half to make his Euro 2024 debut, replacing Adam Buksa in the attack.

However, the captain had a disappointing evening in Berlin. He received a yellow card almost immediately after a tough challenge on Philipp Lienhart and saw Austria regain the lead two minutes later when Baumgartner picked up an excellent pass from Alexander Prass to make it 2-1.

This time Poland didn't have the energy to reply.

Arnautovic sealed the win for Austria from the penalty spot after Poland goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny brought down Marcel Sabitzer in the penalty area in the 77th.

Lewandowski damaged a thigh muscle in a pre-tournament warmup and sat out Poland's first match at the Euros. He wasn't in the starting lineup against Austria but said on Friday he was okay and, "I feel no pain at all."

Austria, after a loss and a win, next faces the Netherlands on Tuesday.

France awaits two-loss Poland in the final round of the group stage.