i. know welcome to studio live from st petersburg belgium beat favorites brazil two one in booking a place in the last for all the world cup. was just. packing with a two nil win in mission looking comfortable that. in the meantime france literally on cloud nine following my quarterfinal victory with flags being waved wildly. bombing on cars and celebrate on result i.

was. welcomed back to football if you review watching us today one of the has been the first day of the quarter finals has now come to close we know exactly who the first player was still in the race for the trophy belgium and france all through to the last resort of the wife it's time to pack their bags and the game of the day belgium saw off five time world cup winners brazil two goals to one.

i. i. it were. and what a game it was belgium opening the scoring in the thirteenth minute chadli curling the ball in straight from warner cable for nadine you know straight past anderson into the net embarrassment for the experience the friend is there and really that set the mood for the whole game belgium doubling their lead a little while later star striker look powerhouse picking the ball up in the belgium's off powering forward. through the midfield the defense passing out wanted to get took a shot which is very powerful allowed time and space on the ball while massaro into

the bottom left hand corner no chance for the keeper that douglas course they came on for the silver that did change the pace of the game a bit strengthen brazil's midfield pulling it out wide trying to spread the belgians didn't work the defensive masterclass there aside from one moment for brazil lab results were not so gusto reviving hopes just three minutes after coming on to the pitch bearing this had a right into the bottom right corner off to force from the t.v. you can just see it there splitting the difference was enough though for the brazilians the attack largely looking unimpressive throughout the whole match for really shot down by the belgians are only less strikers start talking with fields looking pretty helpless in the face of the belgian machine without further ado let's cross live to source who's joining us there are teas and fall and of course a world cup host peter schmeichel guys i would say you know yes well we're. she now

we've upped sticks from last guy because the last quarter final will take place at tomorrow night once it plays a will be russia house up against croatia that once looked forward to but plenty to talk about before then because we watch that game by belgium really stuffed it in brazil you said it was to be faster paced he was saying all along he felt belgium would cause problems not for brazil i think. right from the beginning i thought they would cause problems for anyone it's the squad they happen players have got available it's no surprise no one can be surprised about this now brazil played better today than i've seen them in the holds on to me and ironically they go out on that performance i thought. defensively you know they're very unlucky on the first goal it's just got a little flick of comp company which then hit the fan in the new goes in and it's what happens in football they didn't really become a form and then they find themselves to know that at halftime. but i have to say you know what it's saying goodbye to to one of the better teams now where i think

some of the other teams of still in the tournament maybe you know we get swept them all but that's the nature of the world. toward the second half they did well i wanted them to in the last ten minutes to push it a little bit more and they did it with the goal the goal was fantastic they went you know it was supposed into the box from the from could team you not to a ghost who would just come on he's been on the pitch for three minutes scored and then again two minutes later he had another chance and everyone thought the doctor was in and it just meet outside the post so to get changed. he took. his new stuff put doctors caster on it to collin york and put the story on and william came on and it came off at half time for mean you came on a little bit of that which i had a really impacted me because you can get in many causing all sorts of problems all . three substitutions worked so so most of what happened good that happened in the

second half was that they were involved. look to name to say you know this is your opportunity to show how good you are you had little sniffs you had that situation where you get support and inside deposit inside the box to for me new for me new has a shot because just over and i'm a mouse i had a shot in one thousand minutes plus three which will quarter us a fantastic me and and but other than that he was not he was not the that the government is figuring this is the scene tonight gene was saying had good belgium really on that because it was difficult sort of to gauge people given he did play against i mean that played england but that was sort of like a friendly inverted commas then they played japan and people might thought they might heavy weather that it was quite hard to work out actually how good they are but i think the belgian is it's a team it's a proper football team it's well constructed it's well set up. roberto martínez

he's got options he can change it tactically can change personnel but what they also have is individual players who can change the game even has it in the last fifteen minutes what belgium did obviously they defended and every time they had the ball they were looking for him and he can keep the ball for five ten fifteen seconds which is so helpful if you're on the pressure from from a team like brazil because it has fill a need for me was today incredible you know it's he's he's big strong or quick can run. a lot of people they look at fellini and they see something different. or someone they can believe that he's like that puts technically he's very good and that's you know he came on the other day changed the game chappie today was what was fantastic kevin dobro new i mean the last five minutes he could hardly walk that's how much he was so they've got all these incredible. individual individually skilled. players who every single one of them can change the game again today

worked really hard it didn't really didn't come off and we didn't school or work so hard for the scene if you like i said times is running down the wing i mean most people remember him same as a center forward but he was like a winger it sounds like what i mean it's a team and that that makes a very big difference to having you know eleven individual players who all want to go out there and and you know get the line like so you have match winners in this team to so i mentioned that save in the last minute all not even in the last minute it was in the ninety third minute so ninety plus three and those five minutes added on that say was fantastic and this is what they have they have a guy who can change the outcome of the game and that for me it's more valuable that having you know the biggest football stars in the world so they go all night and play fronts in the semifinals incent. on change day fronts just a quick recap. i thought recently come to play in the end. and again that's

something you should have predicted might happen given your inviting but that's a big problem for your boy so this was on his own he's he's a good striker cavani on his own he's a good strike up a suarez together is the fill in that they had but it wasn't after your wife and i'm not i've been very consistent with kev on the i actually think that he's been the best player in the neurons and i also think he was what he's been one of the best performing players in the whole of the world started off fantastically well didn't score but you know contributed would say and then he scored two goals. that this was a system so. you know that that was a really really tough. stuff for them today not to have him. and the thing is i said this before that france was a one team for me released. day they went from being an average wincing to the

stomach was a white obviously i don't even closer to them and on them so they were very i was the sort of slowly got through the group stages. but in the. last sixteen days they against argentina to really step it up in every single play on that page they just raised the level of risk and they kept that level today which i think is very important so he would you call them between france and belgium i think to meet i think very similar things that they said hey you know it's the potency in the house that doesn't she speaks french you know it this is how close i you know it's two different sides of football and it's two different kinds of football teams and it's very very very different to this moment in time to separate them in terms of strength and i would i would say that big play is and i mentioned obviously you know that the reason i and the op a. role

the reason for france and you know the players we mentioned for from from belgium has got to broaden your. fil a knee at all times. but we'll have to perform and i think what will happen in this any fun is going to be a cautious affair and i'm pretty sure that because she was this close away from the final you don't want to go out there going high and then you lose on to it and france have seen belgium counter-attacking two games no you don't want to go out there so it's going to be cautious and it's going to for me i think it's going to be down to an individual skill and individual brilliance that changed the course of the game and that's a little curiosity in this as well because we all know about so much in this is the manager for belgium. but his assistant is tell you only i mean he's a french legend so if anyone knows about the french team it's terry henri. it's

going to be an interesting and they will play against each other in the top leagues here but i don't like pretty much the nature of this gang was open to the point but here you get them all together in a team you have a different manager who looks at every one strains and you try to sort of make the playing dry and come up with a product that will be different and international football in the first place is different from from from from football but yeah i think this is it's a taste of one i can't wait for this they haven't got long to recover that have no just a matter of four days i mean is this where the big squad comes into play all would you expect them to sort of full strength again objects nor are i thinking back so much you know it's a three month stay with the same team i think he made the change in the game against japan way to chat me and phil a neon and the two of them actually changed the course of that game. they started the game today chadli came off he was completely knackered bad because he came of worked really hard but i'm i'm sure the did because this works the whole

combination works i'm sure the finn to start with the same line up and for france you know. who we're going to take off i mean you know for a cable at that someone side of the draw on the easy side of the drill as it's being called some rights that the last quarter finals start with that one russia. many people as we've been saying all along written off russia at the very start of this not even the quarter finals. i've been very impressed by russia i've been very impressed by. having had no support absolutely no support when i travel around in. russia to do stories all the eleven cities all the whole cities i had very little. optimism about the russian team and you think the thing with with the team is that they didn't have to qualify so there's no competitive matches for nearly two years. and because. your fee for ranking and your job and i

think top of my head sixty fifth russia came in a sixty fifth in the future and that's a long way down we only got thirty two teams and we don't know if my team in this will head but you know you you know it's it's time to take that for anything but then you know that the way the whole tournament has progressed for the mind and i think the chance of the way he's attacked the. change that the things he had so many experiments in all these preparations he won three of them back then he went for the back then he went five at the back and everything seemed not to work in once he got to the tournament and he had all the issues with the injured players as well. so it's nice to be so thirty thirty thirty eight years of age he was not so he's been retired for comeback and he's been absolutely i do think that doesn't he look something i mean this is it and this is what i really like about you know a world cup it always throws out

a team like that where you don't you don't think they'll do much and then it's sad of course with the support in the first game the way the whole thing evolve and develop you know it slowly being build up now that beat spain i mean that russia can beat anyone off to beating spain of course you can't but now think that's an element of something different now because before they couldn't beat spain you know the expectations were very low everyone was very happy they got this far and now we as russia was beaten spain now everyone thinks will be sad to think that translation tomorrow and a similar time six to spain something slightly different things i think. is of course a team that not. and cray should change the game a little bit from the three group brains to the game against denmark they went more defense with. a margin rockets each with not so far up the pitches they've been in the other games and i. i also think that much of this was in this dominating and

therefore when he's not that the team is not as great and not as dangerous. as when he's when he's up there supporting the strikers and i think they're playing a similar game. again the same thing goes you know so close to the semifinal you don't want to give that away. phrase it's been in the semifinal once before ninety eight so they know as a country they know what it's like to to lose the semifinal you know this is an opportunity old not that you need to do with things but it's a can one step for the school then a prediction on a construct a long extra time and i don't know how brave enough i'll get out of it so i'll say actually sign so i'll get out and we haven't even mentioned just very briefly england suetonius which why is that going to get you think what this this is going to be again i think i mean a very tight very gritty affair and we haven't i don't think we've seen a thing been tested yet that's going to be a massive test suite and historically it has the upper hand certainly it sweden

is the english go get see if anyone is engines. think they are book but the thing is with germany you expect an even game and you sort of respect the result going either way but when you're angry and it's sweden sweden is a small country you know we were supposed to win over them but sweden has always done well against england and i think they have been they've been a really good team in this tournament for what they can play so sweden it's not a team that's going to go out there and create chances after chance a chance but they they have their gritty team they defend really well in the last game they picked five in the back that forwards in front of that five back five and then they had marcus up front and every time that the ball that put the ball up to him pushing up and they were getting chances off that but they didn't they're not going to go up and create and this is the to. for anything exam not playing and yet

they have been a little bit like that themselves not not invested too much so it's going to be really interesting to see how these young players from england with a young inexperienced manager how they will the person she will be i'm looking forward to immensely in the meantime we're going to hand you back in the mountain so she can hear the crickets income it's nice and peaceful here but this time tomorrow i can assure you it won't be looking forward to that and of course we have having live coverage throughout the day. of course this time tomorrow we'll also know about the possibility of an england russia semifinal how that would be a crock of a game would not let's go. now he's been following that crucial clash brazil belgium is going to join live now from design has been gauging the mood that i like to say you know speaking to one of our producers and she said i'm going to miss brazil i'm going to miss the the color of the atmosphere the music that the happiness they've brought to the streets of russia perhaps many will be sad to see

the five time world champions going home i'm guessing brazil fans disappointed where you are as well. as well absolutely you know i was here for the argentina france game i'm now here for the brazil belgium game and judging by how much fun both the argentinians and the brazilians had in the streets of cazan you would never be able to tell that this would effectively become the final stop for the both latin american teams they're both going home from and with all these they will see a lot of brazilian fans very sad in the streets of cazan tonight just as it was last week when the same fight happened to argentina when they crashed out against france now effectively this is now no longer a world cup twenty two and this is euro twenty eighteen even at the quarter final stage even before the games are played on sunday and interestingly enough the atmosphere in the stadium this time around was really flat. i'm really frustrated

to say that but i've seen games in because on arena with iran playing against spain absolutely phenomenal loud atmosphere argentina france i nearly went deaf sitting at the top of stand of the stadium this time it was pretty flat because obviously brazil was shell shocked by the by the two goals down result against belgium and only whether or not the head of the ball into the back of the boat was a net only then brazilian chance started being allowed and they effectively pushed the team up until the last minute but still you would look at the stadium you would see yellow and occasional small islands of red somewhere in the middle and on the ice out of the state enough where the belgian fans were it's hard to say maybe four or five thousand of them were in the stadium so let me use this report as a rallying call to all the belgians it's not too late to buy tickets to st petersburg and be there on tuesday when when their team plays against france and arguably the biggest game for belgium basically this was the same thing this was

a notion that the fifa president johnny and from tino told us in the press conference area at halftime he actually went down to speak to the press i had a little chat with gianni in france you know about this world cup and about russia's chances tomorrow. i will tell you after the end of the world cup but so far it's. quite top class i have to say with the president it's more russia is playing against russia and let's be honest it's the biggest problem is this result the world cup. goes to the person that's in your. question the russian team has has been great has good has made. already a great achievement but as we know once you start. you know getting the you always want more and i think russia and the russian people have to be proud for

what their team is doing in this world cup one of the other things that mr president said was thanking the people of the because this was not only the last game for brazil this was the last game focus on all the matches the world cup matches over and john in france you know said that it was an amazing atmosphere amazing experience to be in the city which is now saying goodbye to the world cup obviously were not and i will see you all in st petersburg on tuesday. gas fields of petersburg guys what is than as well once in a lifetime opportunity for many that host such a fantastic event it's a little over though waiting in the northern capital for all those belgian fans coming through now as the guys were discussing earlier today just hours ago of course we found out the name of the first semifinalist france in a two mil win for blues goals from. the french fans into ecstasy all over france

that have a look at the garlands of that game. that i . thank you. at the the. thought. of seeing their team make it to the semifinals of the world

cup of the first time since two thousand and six has sent the whole country into raptures as you can imagine massive emotions right now i'm sure going on throughout france and russian stuff but not many probably not going into what's more as you'd expect keys of peace to all of us was the only game post the in the evening off grotty managed to catch up with fans from both sides as well as usual finds who became all nori supporters of one of the teams at least for one night but heartbreak for the year required funs a lay shin for the french but what's the really interesting about the crowd depicted to the nation you know of good old stadium is that they came from all over the world in fact i'm joined by a group of guys now where we come from even yet and who are you supporting from. what do you make of that i live in the blue. blue no idea yet. either could this be france's year twenty years since they won it last killing him

but they wasn't even born in one thousand nine hundred eighty which could this be the year for france definitely it's going to be this year of a front definitely helping us and i'm sure you'll hear from the first game france received minus hopefully yeah yeah so i lay i say elation for the french fans have seen some fairly the jacketed looking very well done so if they're really to check . good looking year ago i found one of the really interesting things i've seen about this game though is the people supporting duty quien particularly well they weren't any of them from you require a lot of them were but i still argentina funds who got on board with them columbia funds you got on board with them some guy so some guys from peru had to hear is well we are supporting you to quite you of course that hundred percent this is going to be nice this friendship in south america about football is very good and right now is very as they all right now we are going through the i would brazil and we hope they are going to win they are already there thanks very much enjoy it as he has said the whole thing oh we've got some other guys to speak to here who have

been supporting. we want. i'm just here to or enjoy the game actually all the people from you know different countries you'll get to know like each other with different culture no politics and all anything just here enjoying you know enjoying your time the euro quiet fans you looked devastated at the end their careers and what does it mean what does it mean for this team and for the found themselves that you've gone out to the states you know we're not they will stay there that we are happy that we are here and we sexy steve here we are always very positive you always posted there it was next time the next time you get me it was a very very tough going to. be i think we play well although we could do with the goal. but. the will was a border team who was a great workout and i was from seoul the best but this is the whole thing of the

world cup in order for you to have winners there has to be loses and they heartbreak that comes with seeing your team crash out of the told him and. so it's a positive move for my spine is global even those that have left the torment of crossed out so it hasn't dampened their spirits or stop the paltry rolling. and on and on and while of football players battle out on the pitch fans of course of backing them all the way one across the streets of russia and across social media as well its latest from artie's digital to. the owen was the boy was i was was i was

. was. it. was a and have a of was. almost it for a special coverage from football h.q. for those of you maybe just catching up let's take a final look at that table how's it looking now seems we start off with this morning they have now become six of course but this time tomorrow the final four potential semi final two in russia england coming up belgium france later on as well what a fantastic game that will be will bring you all the latest goals disappointments see the whole range of emotions here naughty international for join us for more

updates and world cup but certainly not failing to deliver. me in the best .

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