France's Ousmane Dembele celebrates scoring their first goal with teammates REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
NUR-SULTAN: Ousmane Dembele inspired France to a 2-0 victory over Kazakhstan on Sunday in their second match in World Cup qualifying Group D.
Four days after being held 1-1 by Ukraine at the Stade de France, the world champions built their win in the first half with Sergiy Maliy's own goal adding to Dembele's opener before Kylian Mbappe missed a second-half penalty.
France moved top of the standings with four points, ahead of Bosnia, who they face away on Wednesday, Ukraine and Finland.
Ukraine host Finland later on Sunday. Kazakhstan have zero points after playing their first game of the campaign.
(Writing by Julien Pretot in Paris; Editing by Ed Osmond)
