France have filed a complaint to FIFA over the decision to disallow Antoine Griezmann s late goal in Wednesday s shock 1-0 World Cup loss to Tunisia.
Griezmann thought he had cancelled out Wahbi Khazri s strike when he volleyed home in the eighth minute of stoppage time at Education City Stadium.
However, after the celebrations had died down, referee Michael Conger ruled out Griezmann s goal for an offside infringement.
The Atletico Madrid forward was adjudged to have been offside when firing in from Aurelien Tchouameni s pass, which took a deflection off a Tunisian defender.
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However, the French Football Federation (FFF) believe the officials were wrong to disallow the goal as play had already restarted when VAR intervened, which is prohibited.
We are writing a complaint after Antoine Griezmann s goal was, in our opinion, wrongly disallowed, said a widely released statement from the FFF on Wednesday.
This complaint has to be filed within 24 hours after the final whistle.
Khazri s superb strike at Education City Stadium ended reigning world champions France s nine-game unbeaten run in the competition stretching back to the 2014 quarter-finals.
However, the result ultimately meant little in the context of Group D as France still went through in top spot and Australia claimed second place with a 1-0 win over Denmark.
Should France be successful with their appeal and the scoreline is changed to 1-1, the final points tallies in Group D will change but not the positions of any of the four sides.
