Dimitri Payet has grabbed a stunning late winner as Euro 2016
hosts France beat Cameroon 3-2, while Sweden were held 0-0 by
Slovenia in their penultimate tune-up game.
Payet
was on target in the 90th minute with a sublime free-kick into the
far left corner in Nantes, two minutes after Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting
of German club Schalke had levelled for the Africans.
Paris
Saint-Germain's Blaise Matuidi volleyed home Kingsley Coman's cross
in the 20th and Arsenal's Olivier Giroud struck shortly before
half-time off Paul Pogba for Les Bleus.
Porto's
Vincent Aboubakar scored Cameroon's first goal in the 22nd against an
at times shaky France defence.
The
win will boost France ahead of their Euro opener on June 10 against
Romania, with Switzerland and Albania their other Group A opponents
for the tournament starting on June 10.
Didier
Deschamps and his team will have a final tune-up game on Saturday
against Scotland in Metz.
Meanwhile,
Sweden were without Zlatan Ibrahomovic, who is nursing a calf
problem, during a scoreless draw against Slovenia in Malmo.
Parts
of the crowd jeered the team after the final whistle.
Sweden
have one more tune-up game on Sunday against Wales before facing
former world ranking leaders Belgium, Euro 2012 runners-up Italy and
Ireland in a difficult Group E.
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