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By KYLE HIGHTOWER<\/p>\n

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) \u2014 France forward Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 scored a first-half hat trick, including one off a feed from Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, to help his team beat Norway 4-1 at the World Cup on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Demb\u00e9l\u00e9\u2019s goals came in the seventh, 20th and 32nd minutes. It was the first first-half hat trick at the World Cup since Russia forward Oleg Salenko scored three of his five goals in the opening 45 minutes against Cameroon at the 1994 World Cup in the United States.<\/p>\n

D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 scored France\u2019s final goal in second-half injury time.<\/p>\n

Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, who won Ballon d\u2019Or as Europe\u2019s top player in 2025 and has now scored four goals at this year\u2019s World Cup, left the game in the 65th minute. He was replaced by Bradley Barcola.<\/p>\n

Thelo Aasgaard got Norway on the scoreboard after Demb\u00e9l\u00e9\u2019s second goal, finding the back of the net only 14 seconds after the restart. But Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 added his third goal less than nine minutes later to push the lead back to two.<\/p>\n

Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 increased his international goal total to eight while Mbappe now has 16 goals and four assists in 17 World Cup matches. He scored two goals in each of France\u2019s wins over Senegal and Iraq.<\/p>\n

Erling Haaland was among 10 regular starters absent from Norway\u2019s starting lineup, presumably to rest. The wholesale changes included Egil Selvik starting in goal in place of Orjan Nyland.<\/p>\n

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France, which won the World Cup in 2018 and lost in the final four years ago, had already secured its place in the knockout round before Friday\u2019s match. Norway was also assured of a spot in the round of 32 and ended up in second place in the group.<\/p>\n

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The fastest World Cup hat trick took only 7 minutes, 42 seconds. Hungary striker Laszlo Kiss, who had come on as a substitute, managed that feat late in the match against El Salvador at the 1982 World Cup in Spain.<\/p>\n

The quickest World Cup hat trick from the start of the match occurred at the 1954 tournament in Switzerland when Austria striker Erich Probst scored his three goals in the opening 24 minutes against Czechoslovakia.<\/p>\n

Mbapp\u00e9 nearly got France on the scoreboard only 21 seconds into the game. He sprinted up the right side and sent a hard shot that hit the crossbar beyond the outstretched arm of Selvik.<\/p>\n

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Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 was operating in space for his first goal when he took took a pass from Mbapp\u00e9 and blasted a right-footed shot across Selvik.<\/p>\n

On the Paris Saint-Germain player\u2019s second goal, Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 found space between three defenders at the top of the box and fired in a left-footer beyond Selvik\u2019s diving save attempt.<\/p>\n

Norway had a chance to close the gap back to one goal in the 49th when France defender Theo Hernandez was whistled for tripping Oscar Bobb in the box. But Jorgen Strand Larsen\u2019s penalty shot toward the right corner was batted away by France goalkeeper Mike Maignan.<\/p>\n

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See more of AP\u2019s World Cup coverage here <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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