From 1h agoTunisia replace sacked Lamouchi with RenardTunisia have sacked the head coach Sabri Lamouchi and replaced him ⁠with fellow Frenchman Hervé Renard in after their 5-1 defeat by Sweden in their World Cup ⁠opener in Monterrey.Lamouchi, the first coaching casualty of the tournament, was appointed in January on ⁠a contract until 2028. He leaves the post with matches to come against Japan and the Netherlands.Tunisia won just one of their five games under Lamouchi, beating ​Haiti 1-0 in March, while ‌losing 1-0 to Austria ‌and being thrashed 5-0 by Belgium in a pair of World ‌Cup warm-up matches this month.The Tunisian Football Federation (FTF) said Renard would take charge until the end of Tunisia’s World Cup campaign. “The agreement also stipulates that negotiations will be opened after the World Cup campaign to consider a long-term partnership based ‌on specific sporting objectives,” their statement said.The country’s state-owned broadcaster Television Tunisienne reported that Renard would arrive in Monterrey later on ​Tuesday to link up with the squad.Renard, twice an Africa Cup of Nations winner, coached Saudi Arabia at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and led them to a famous victory over eventual champions Argentina in the ⁠group stage. He left to coach the French women’s team at ​the World Cup ​in 2023 and the Paris ​Olympics, before returning to Saudi Arabia and helping the ​men’s side qualify ‌for a third ​successive World Cup. He ​was then replaced by Georgios Donis in the buildup to the tournament.The Tunisia job will be Hervé Renard’s fifth African job as head coach. He won the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations with Zambia and the 2015 edition with Côte d’Ivoire, becoming the first coach to win two Afcons with different teams. Photograph: Noe Llamas/SPP/ShutterstockKey events1h agoTunisia replace sacked Lamouchi with Renard1h agoPreambleFrance: Right, on to what is ahead. France and their potent attack featuring Kylian Mbappé, the former Ballon d’Or winner Ousmane Dembélé and flying winger Michael Olise open their account against Senegal in New Jersey.The French will be desperate to avoid any repetition of the opening-day defeat by the Senegalese that they suffered at the 2002 World Cup in South Korea, a result which led to the then-reigning champions crashing out in the group stage. Luke Entwistle looks back on that unfortunate loss for Les Bleus and how the relationship between Mbappé and Dembélé must be positive from the off.