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for broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our international thomas certainly glad to have you with us. france is through to the final of the two thousand and eighteen world cup in russia after defeating belgium one in st petersburg will be the third final for france in twenty years they lifted the trophy in one thousand nine hundred eight and lost on penalties to italy in two thousand and six now they will be meeting the winners of wednesday's semi final order. from which they go marching on to the world cup final said it isn't really what you just think. well i think as i was telling you. the whole fun. what we could expect

when will would we need. one would create some reaction. and that happened more space for friends to control more initiative from from them but i think the belgian players. they go home with a bad feeling a feeling that we could do more and better. feeling that probably. is out there it because it tried absolutely everything. but many of the players. they kept hiding and a little bit more in the in the last twenty twenty five minutes but they are much better than that and from being locations because players and many of the players there were not there in the vocation affronts was. who was good on the

basics things of the game they defended well they were competent. and they scored. a goal that probably is. from a new mismatch the last man to put the chips but they score and then they try to control the the game which basically they and they did we've. a fantastic performance by. and i think a very good performance by bob the walls was meant to. be played the game weeds with great maturity when we had to hold position and to keep control of the game needs when bush took off. as usual to bring those on z. and foreman had more freedom but that freedom to do see these things you had freedom to keep the ball away from the dangerous areas. to keep to keep the ball to

assist griezmann for a great chance he was very very mature obviously pictures for the goal now i mean it's another goal from a set piece in this world cup as you are set piece is something. that you can train . your dog damage. more of your physical condition and when you are in a competition like these where the commission of the comes you have just to recover then is very difficult to have training sessions of development of tactical situations that create even more spending of energy. opening the door for more small injuries so what can you train said please you don't run. you don't spend any of your energetic sources you do it you do

it in a relaxed way you do it you do it as parts of your. recovering sessions and you go for the set pieces. he said talking about energy as well i mean getting a bath again showed he had some tricks and flicks as well he proved that he is a forty something for the future for france as well and this french team is zero you know looks looks. play with twenty years of football but. must be below twenty five. he played his first match with me with eighteen in real madrid that was totals and is thirteen so he must be no twenty four years old also. is young always young. and isn't t.t. . three d.

i think on the lorries as you who'll be three d. there on the sorties is a very very young team so fans can watching on that death race are the croatia all england how do you say you said before the collation were tied how do you see the second and if i'm. you know i think. england is fresher. has younger players heads easy group phase where they plea to easy matches and the match against belgium big change every player sold the players that are playing the they all had one less in croatia to play because they didn't play against belgium and the majority of the players. are young feed the players when i look to the team my sing. and served is three years

old just today or yesterday something like that and a part of that the players are all very young and between england and croatia i think croatia has a great mentality. a fantastic me to play to control the game in the possession of the game but then when these. is a happy team is a team that you look at them and you see happiness is a team that they went from. eden candidate to candidate and i just hope because that that's what they really need i just hope that they are themselves and not break belgium. the majority of the places they were not themselves in big matches you have to be yourself or a bit better the big match can make you a bit better that extra adrenalin that extra. a.

feeling of how big i am. can only make you better. as far as the guy watching on to the well cup final and for us we crossed to our mustache studio with neil and. many thanks kate and many thanks jos a very warm welcome we are here on the rooftop of red square we've just been digesting that semi final . lots of french funds going crazy both here in russia and also of course in france itself let's take a look at what those fans have been getting up to after that final whistle went on francois into the world cup final. was it was

. france with a touching distance of the coveted trophy will they get it or not i'm sure the fans are thrilled just to have the chance let's go over live to st petersburg and amani is outside the stadium and hopefully will see want to see jubilant french fans at the already in the. was these thousands of fans stream away from the st petersburg stadium we've seen a number of actually belgian fives pretty happy i was surprised to see a number of them cheering and shouting belgium belgium of course very proud of that team getting to that semifinal this is a generation of players who always seen as being the so-called golden generation young. hungry players who finally came into their prime but just couldn't do enough to win that game this evening the french fries. however

a little common now but i can tell you they were absolutely jubilant with that victory by who was . was at these fancy hugely delighted i can imagine that there will be a party all night here in st petersburg who do you view. i had i was doing was. was and many of them now are figuring out how they're going to make their way to moscow they'll be scouring the websites for flights and trains and even figuring out perhaps how to get up by bus and by car and then the question of how to get one

of those golden tickets put out final on sunday in moscow at the disney key stadium so the frogs the journey goes on as they seek to win their second world cup and who will join the being learned over to be crazy shall we find out some more evening thanks through what will they be offering us in the final a lot of people are looking for to the performances of. young superstar killen and back pain show bit of flashes little flashes in his humanity didn't they was me let's see a little bit of the skill that he can offer on the big occasion this was on fifty six minutes little bit tricky from the play the double shuffle but if you want to call that a little back you'll pass through ball as well after doing that again not just for show there was an end product to that. on this occasion unable to finish and i saw it by the last challenge one of the things we saw in belgium they didn't give up all they had the lion's share of the ball in the first half then when the goal went in in the second half they kept. this is more unfair lanie going close

after around sixty five minutes well he's a big man get him into the box he's going to do damage just couldn't get the ball on target at this cases monitor just really you could feel the frustration refer to martinez is so close to getting into a final just a stout we were looking about it earlier. every monitor who's ever won the world cup has been from a country how much would spanish. martinez love actually to be able to break that hoodoo and go on lift the world cup that's not going to be happening this world cup having and belgium course had to go for a late song mission substantiations themselves a bit more adventurous and it was a fantastic children eight minutes. it's what you would call this pile driver thunderball but it was told and it was true but unfortunately for victualling was

a bit too close to loris it was a part of the way and france was to play the danger and they really kind of i would say stifle the press straight to belgium from that point. to the end as you would expect they played out the court as it did to show performance wasn't even the belgian getting closer but. they never really looked like living in a gold letting belgium in the whole seem to be in game management. the best team gets to the final one way or another and that's what they're looking forward to their third finally in twenty years nineteen ninety eight they won and of course losing to italy to thaw it in six hundred member there's a down head book that we've got here we'll be hoping to go back with with better memories this time i've been making it to from. a let's just for a while with for you some interesting stats all before this instance so the only other previously been to football is one as a player and then gone on to win the trophy as

a. we'll have the opportunity in the final in just five days' time when we can do that to brazil's mario friends back of course for germany so i would be very exalted company he manages it we were expecting probably goals tonight. line up and formation that kind of paid to that was a lot more cautious fearful this is the real you said the game must speak briefly before we leave about croatia england and see a few more goals and that were british english fans in the capital all ready for tomorrow's clash at the luzhniki. looking at the way these two teams come up i'm not expect i'm expecting a cagey match up here if if there's more than two goals i'll be very surprised a lot of pressuring them to get back into that final after no pressure for so long in this tournament they're so close now to getting in the world cup final through any the second time through

a shit it's their golden generation be it will want to be going home you look at their players their profiles by the time the next world cup comes along they're going to be all but big name players have already been here but never got into that world cup final i don't know how it's going to go and we've heard a lot of people pointing out hey just done it back to back to lots of added time extra time followed by penalties surely they're going to be exhausted what three four days to recover that peter schmeichel our expert says don't worry about that if players can't get up for work at some e-file they will never find the energy for anything he says don't worry about how much they will have left in the tank and michael be back alongside me in the morning as we build up to that second semifinal taking place right here in moscow do you join us for that thanks for joining us. well this championship has proven to be full of surprises with favorites germany and.