Blaise Matuidi scores twice as France defeat Serbia in Bordeaux

The PSG midfielder scored twice in the opening 25 minutes to put Les Bleus in control, with Serbia unable to build on Aleksandar Mitrovic's 39th-minute response.

Didier Deschamps' men, who beat Portugal 1-0 in Lisbon on Friday, needed just nine minutes to go ahead as Matuidi headed home Bacary Sagna's pinpoint cross for his fifth international strike.

His sixth came just 16 minutes later and it was a stunner as a contentious corner was cleared by Serbia, but only to the edge of the area where the 28-year-old fired a rasping volley which flew in through a sea of bodies and into the top corner.

It was all France and Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud could have made it 3-0 but bundled wide at the near post after good work by Benoit Tremoulinas.

Serbia had barely featured as an attacking threat, but they fought their way back into the game six minutes before the break, though they had a large chunk of fortune to thank.

Dusan Tadic did well down the left and his stand-up cross found Lazar Markovic, who hit a first-time volley which was going wide until it struck the knee of Mitrovic and beat Hugo Lloris.

Serbia could not use that moment of luck to launch a comeback and it was the Euro 2016 hosts who should have extended their lead after the restart when Antoine Griezmann was played in, but after beating goalkeeper Predrag Rajkovic his shot hit the post.

Mathieu Valbuena tested Rajkovic with a curling effort from distance, while Giroud headed over as France continued to press without reward.

Serbia tried to mount a late rally and their best chance came in the 83rd minute when Zoran Tosic launched a quick counter-attack and slipped in Petar Skuletic but Lloris raced out of his net and bravely blocked the effort.

Tosic was the main danger for the eastern Europeans and his jinking run into the area caused a moment of worry for the hosts, but he was snuffed out before being able to get a shot away.

France had the chance to put the game to bed deep into injury time when they broke down the right, but Mathieu Debuchy's low drive was kept out by Rajkovic.

New Manchester United signing Anthony Martial made a 76th-minute entrance, replacing Valbuena, but he made little impact.