Favourites France maintained their perfect record at this World Cup but it was far from serene progress for the tournament favourites.Didier Deschamps’ team defeated Paraguay to book their place in the last 16, with star striker Kylian Mbappe scoring his seventh goal of the tournament to edge level with Argentina’s Lionel Messi in the Golden Boot race.But France were made to scrap by a resolute and very physical Paraguay side, whose tactics proved a major talking point in the aftermath.Elsewhere Canada became the first co-hosts to exit the World Cup with a 3-0 defeat to Morocco. Jesse Marsch’s side spurned some fantastic early opportunities to open the scoring and were made to pay for their profligacy when Morocco clinically scored three times in the second half.The north African side lost main striker Ismael Saibari to injury but sealed an ultimately comfortable win through two goals from Azzedine Ounahi and another from Soufiane Rahimi, to become the first African nation to reach successive World Cup quarter-finals.Away from the live action, the USMNT put plans in place to stop potential snooping on their preparations for Monday’s last-16 tie with Belgium.Yesterday’s resultsCanada 0-3 Morocco