Defending champions France overcame difficult opposition on Saturday and reached the Qatar 2022 semi-finals after beating England 2-1, who squandered the chance to force extra time on a wasted penalty kick by Harry Kane.
‘Les Bleus’ sealed their classification at the Al Bayt stadium thanks to the annotations of Aurélien Tchouaméni (17′) and Olivier Giroud (78′), while Harry Kane he scored, from a penalty, the transitory tie for the ‘Three Lions’ at 54 minutes.
At 84′, the Tottenham striker had a new opportunity from 11 metersbut his shot this time he was lost over the goal of Hugo Lloris.
Despite the fact that the British were the ones who had the most situations, especially in the complementary stage, it was the monarch in Russia-2018 who struck at the right moments and knew how to resist in a match in which her main star, Kylian Mbappé, went almost unnoticed.
In the ‘semis’, those led by Didier Deschamps will have as their opponent Moroccothe great revelation of the contest, which earlier left Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal out in the quarterfinals.
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– Great goal from Tchouaméni –
After the first minutes of scoring, France was the first team to look for the opposite goal, with a couple of crosses from Ousmane Dembélé from the right that Giroud was close to taking advantage of.
The first goal would come at 17′, in a play in which the French attack swung from left to right, Griezmann passed the ball to Tchouameni and the young Real Madrid midfielder unleashed a right-footed shot from outside the area that slipped past the base of the English goal post.
Tremendous kick from Tchouaméni that ended up beating Pickford’s lunge.
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The second half began with a tremendous shot by Bellingham from the edge that he deflected to a corner with another extraordinary save a cry that this Saturday he played his party 143 and became the player with more internationalities of the ‘Blues’.
England found the prize for their greatest daring when the Brazilian referee Cesar Sampaio signaled a penalty for a takedown by Tchouaméni on Bukayo Saka inside the area and Harry Kane did not forgive from the white point, equaling Wayne Rooney as the top scorer in the history of the England team (both with 53).
– Kane misses a penalty –
The tie generated fluidity in the game process, in a context in which those led by Gareth Southgate lived their best minutes guided by a Saka that did a lot of damage to the blue defense.
But it was the French team that struck again in attack: at 78′, a perfect cross from Antoine Griezmann reached the position of Olivier Giroudwho with a header avoided the uncomfortable mark of Harry Maguire and established the 2-1.
With the party exalted, the referee signaled another penalty for demolition of Theo Hernandez to Mason Mount. kane he took charge of the execution again, but raised the shot too high and the ball was lost over Lloris’s crossbar. In that 84th minute, British hopes of taking another step towards a second World Cup title after the one obtained in the increasingly distant 1966 vanished.
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