Football. ua presents the announcement of the match of the 1/2 finals of the 2018 World Cup between France and Belgium.
July 10, St. Petersburg, St Petersburg Stadium, referee - Andres Cunha (Uruguay).
Live broadcast on Inter, 21:00.
In any case, both the national team of Belgium and France will fight for the 2018 World Cup medals. Someone will fight for the title, and someone just for the bronze medal. Assuming that there will be no overtime and penalty shootout, then from the main match of the fourth year, one of the teams will only finish an hour and a half play.
Before the start of the 2018 World Cup, both teams hoped for success, but not all specialists were betting on Belgium or France. At Mundiale, both teams have come from world-class players, but will the mentors be able to put together, into the working mechanism of all the players? Apparently, Roberto Martinez and Didier Deschamps succeeded.
Team Belgium before the semifinal match lost Tom Meunier - not the brightest player, but an important element. As for the French, then comes back after the disqualification Blaise Mathewidi.
According to the bookmakers, a minor, but the favorite of the meeting are the nominal hosts - the French team.
Approximate compositions:.
France: Lloris - Pavar, Umtiti, Varan, Hernandez - Kante, Pogba - Matyudi, Grizmann, Mbapp - Giru.
Belgium: Courtois - Vertonghen, Company, Vermaelen, Alderweiderel - Witsel, de Bryune, Chadli, Carrasco, Azar - Lukaku.
Interesting Facts:.
- This is the 74th meeting between these teams: Belgium won 30 games, France 24, draws were recorded 19.
- The teams met at the World Cup three times, and France won in both previous meetings: 3: 1 in the 1/8 finals of the World Cup-1938 and 4-2 in the match for third place at the 1986 World Cup. The game at the 1986 World Cup was the last, when the teams met at a competitive level.
- Belgium won the last friendly match with a score of 4: 3 in Paris in June 2015, leading with a score of 3: 0, 4: 1 and then the French scored two goals in the last two minutes and reduced the gap in one ball.
- Of the 5 games, the last time France won a friendly match with a 2-0 draw in Brussels in February 2004.
- Belgium will play in the semifinals of the World Cup for the second time in its history: in the first match, the Belgians lost to the future world champions Argentines with a score of 2-0 at the 1986 World Cup.
- This is the sixth semi-final of the World Cup for the French national team: they reached the semi-finals in their last two world championships (in 1998 and 2006), not reaching the semifinals in their first three World Cups - 1958, 1982 and 1986.
- Only Germany (12), Brazil (8) and Italy (7) went to the semi-finals more times than France (6).
- France's victory over Uruguay in the quarterfinals of this World Cup made the French only the second team, which beat 3 South American teams at one World Cup after the Netherlands in 1974.
- France lost only 1 of their last 13 games in the playoff stage of the World Cup (10 wins, 2 draws).
- France scored 6 goals out of 6 hits on the opponents' goal in the last two matches.
- France did not miss in 3 of the last 4 matches at the World Cup (3 balls missed).