PARIS:

Gennaro Gattuso enjoyed his start to life as Italy coach on Friday as his team beat Estonia 5-0 to get their qualifying campaign back on track, while Kylian Mbappe struck as France began their bid with a win against Ukraine.

A World Cup winner as a combative midfielder in 2006, Gattuso was brought in as coach in June to stop Italy's slide towards a third-consecutive missed World Cup finals.

His tenure started in style as second-half strikes by Moise Kean, Mateo Retegui -- who netted twice -- Giacomo Raspadori and

Alessandro Bastoni fired Italy to three points and had fans chanting the coach's name in Bergamo.

Italy are third in Group I after three matches, six points behind leaders Norway who have played one game more, and boast a superior goal difference.

"We played well and

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