banks and the e.u. and america are going to attack the u.k. commerce a plate and drive into bankruptcy. usa . and our coverage today all the great feast show. it is less than one hour to go now until kickoff of the two thousand and eighteen feet will cup final so much up for grabs the coveted trophy front taking on croatia play the global t.v. audience of more wall billion. and supporters around in force in the russian capital. looking for the team's first title france are vying for their second twenty years all from the.

i thank you greats of the game manchester united manager and legendary goalkeeper pinkish michael all the analysis all this month will be looking back at our special coverage of the it's one of those well spans eleven cities and. it is a beautiful day here in central moscow with just a stone's throw away from the luzhniki stadium that in just under fifty minutes time will be hosting the biggest sporting spectacle there is in the world of football front gate france of what it was before can they get their hands on the trophy croatia trying to lift it for the first time ever more than eighty thousand fans are going to be packed in to the stadium this is how they've been preparing for all excited that hadn't begun.

i i. was. and whoever wins this match you can guarantee that in their country it will be the biggest party on the planet let's bring you live pictures from paris the fans of course so many people gathering to watch this game on big screens a lot of people basically played ok let's this is first now the creation found a lot of people skipping work today we don't have the paris pictures but i can guarantee you it will be similar scenes people have taken the day off because they've waited decades a lifetime for many for an opportunity to see their side of a chance of lifting football's most coveted trophy just imagine the scenes there

you see it go away sure. it's going to be quite something and here we have the pictures from paris so everyone is out on the streets there's a very few lucky if managed to get a ticket and a flight over to moscow just over eighty thousand packed into the litani quay and we'll be bringing you analysis of kickoff the great day in the goalkeeper peter schmeichel will be joining me just a few minutes time but also will be getting pretty much analysis from josie marina let's head over now to manchester. yes good afternoon we're actually at the training ground of manchester united because pre-season has already started despite the world cup of a place to say the manchester united boss is alongside us today for today's final and show you say what an intriguing final it is a favorite france against a croatian side who nobody was too. i think at the start it is still an if you can

call if you can call favorites in the final the final list is one much used on the one. every single is. used today ninety minutes to wow are spent on these but everything happens to the. fronts favored because of tradition because of prestige because of. super quality of the squad because they played. five matches and in terms of mean it's played by the players and grisha played seven because they had twenty four hours or more to rest. about a crew issue. and did well nobody could. imagine and they showed that resilience mentality pride does all these disqualify these can. can beat fatigue soul.

even i was a couple of days yes to be using the word favorites i think now that the moment arrives. i would take it from the dictionary of these i just find them no favorites now i said do you think the fact that supply three loss of extra time has actually helped their mental resiliency and also having to go through penalties she ties does not help them now they're going into science think what what helps them is is the fact that. they are arriving in russia. and nobody saw i think even themselves for months thinking that could be possible and they had been in the final they had a group phase that was not easy and they did something that. made the world open the mouth which was the same in the old against against argentina and then there were we can say

a little bit lucky to go to. the easiest sides of the table but then there had to be. denmark england and icing switzerland along i think it was switzerland. they had to beat them to him to arrive now in an expected final but you know icing the fact that. they were there were playing difficult to imagine two were there were winning in extreme conditions taking matches to extra time thinking matches to penalties you know we used to say in football that the best the best mean against for t. is when. even at the club level and when we arrive in march april we have fifty sixty matches. you know legs we normally use say keep winning and

you you are still fresh for the next one and when you lose then you feel everything so i think they can cope we did. game of course if the game goes to a certain identity and friends keep step by then city and they don't lead fabulous me through players like to like they have to keep control of the regions of the game as in france can control it. but croatia has has qualities to fight from i know you've talked a lot about france saving this too and you been very impressed with their strength through life to teach haven't you defense midfield on attack was not in this world cup was in the last year or was during these two years between the euros and. and and the world cup you look to the bench you see the quality and you look to the players who are not selected and you magine these team with him because i'm a. perfectly could be could be selected

did to me to make lots of choices icing difficult choices but the choice is that the manager likes to have the choices because i have so much quality some other some other managers of the national teams. it was so easy for them to select because they don't have too many too many options france is is is amazing the quality of the they're having their very in the apartment sure and killian in bath they capture the headlines that this will come up to you how will you approach him what was a day today trying counts of what potentially he can do. i think first of all keep the ball don't lose the ball too much to the ball in areas where one simple pass can. be behind defend those because nadal to be faster than. three needs normally more.

of the players in the areas where he likes to attack that space and they are going on ease faster than the defenders the defenders they have to know about icing they cannot expose themselves too much old and be surprised if for example three needs. we did short of distance to either and then normally they do because you need to use a play that likes to attack the surprise if you was giving that protection to that there is three need chins either which is a favorite area for a puppet to attack that space but i seem fundamental fundamental is not to lose the ball all the time and that's why i say if france lead roles of each more they try to teach to have the ball to control the possession to have a high percentage of possession and don't lose many times the ball which they are capable of doing that then is more difficult for them by pitt to be in transition to be in contact to be in conditions to be to the offensive line but i'm not saying

you slow i'm just saying that beats faster than them i'm with regards to you they have a star of their own don't mean you can moderate everybody's no need for a long time and he's really shining in this world cup see how well france then look at him and try and counter what he does in the center of the i think luke is shining for many years for many many many many years. shining and. disease in these pieces in the timorese helping to bring the team in to a certain level that is fundamental i think i think france really has to press him . look we. find space time find time we'd space and time given by the opponent he's like fishing in the water and you can you can dictate the dynamic of of the game it has to be pressed it has to be

pressed depending on the area you go sometimes it goes on the ball but sometimes it was on come to you has to be pressed and if feels the pressure and it tries to go into areas more deep areas icing griezmann has to make a sector face that sometimes players like him don't like to do but in a location like like this one where every player is ready to give what they have and what they don't have i think you for that reason can drop a little bit back when the team is not in possession and to try to control but even if you look at the control don't forget trucking teacher don't forget both of each because he is in midfield and they have to be telling sure there is a huge amount of talent on display to enjoy said i will come back she with the start of the not so far away is it in about half an hour's time but. back to moscow . many thanks andrew thank you jos a marine your little places where the action is

central moscow that's just a few miles away you know almost here the rules when the goals go in peter schmeichel join me for more pretty much analysis but burned us struck one last time for the world cup lovely retro this is what i'm thinking you know. literally had a concert then you would think you know as we progress and in this tournament but then you. specter invented no that's not the case but that's what the football is look at lately he's consistently good to start us off with the line ups and what you think of them well. the line ups our exactly as we expected them to be no change for any manager they are two very very very strong teams so let us go through that the french team is luis of course in goal. t.t. who scored the goal against belgium that put france through to the final and then one understood as a loss in the fall back for left back in county right in front of them and then you

have all the excitement up front. man not to eighty and then all of a chiro who has a really sacked record i think i think you type thirteen shots thirteen shots in this well compensates played literally every game and not as a striker not a single one of them said the talk it's just the still play a key role the. rules play away or he holds the ball up the thing about the role and this is what many many a lot of managers where they go wrong with him is that they see him as someone that necessarily must score the goal but he and he will i mean you put the ball into the right area and the right you know you can hit the ball can hit the ball but what he's done really well in this world cup is to make space to what i call the excitement my papa kinsman and matuidi and what the french team can do with a can they can put the ball up to him from anywhere and he has got the ability to

hold it to take it down hold it and that gives the team time to come forward and i say he's making a lot of space for the other guys channels that they can run into so he is a very important player and no surprise to me that means that he's plain this game i think de de de sean who they used to call the ball to carry as a player to france manager maybe he because he was that kind of player did a lot of a lot of work off the ball he can a. stuff the jury does the nabi most fans think say let's talk about a show because the chance that seal his place in history is but to call someone who is listed as a captain for france lifted. the world cup trophy and say you can do your thing what about you and you're going to see exactly i mean he's this is just. it's one i'm an asshole which they don't really like him in france they always say running up to this well that they had them that the right team the right players the right squad they don't have the right man that i think i don't think he's a winning player he did well as

a manager and i think i think it goes back to. the euros two years ago when friends were the host and they went in all the way to the final and then they lost the final in extra time to portugal and a team by the way portugal played seven games without winning any of them in one thousand and it's not a single game and still became european champions so there is a massive difference in the squad studies pick but we still have seven play is in in the starting line up from from the final two years ago that that the potentially all that out when we've got seven players in the lineup today that was in that squad and one player that was it was kinds of he was we'll talk about him later but to date the shams he can be he can see themselves into those right himself into history by being only the third manager or the third coach whatever you want to call him who has won the world cup as a player and as a manager and the other two well i remember one of them very very clearly because

that was my first world cup and that was franz beckenbauer as captain from west germany in one nine hundred seventy four he was lifting the trophy off the p.t. holland two one in the final and then he won as a manager again for west germany in one thousand nine hundred. and and the other one is my you a stick out of i don't quite remember him because the first time he won the world comp. five years before i was drawn in anyone in the game the year before i was born so fifty and sixty two but then he wanted as a manager for brazil in one nine hundred seventy and funnily enough which i thought was a little curiosity again as assistant manager in ninety three if it was no ninety four so i can join those two and that that's some achievement it's history it's important to remember these these names since it's alleged that the great managers and players in the past kind of slipped from all mary's memories very important to remember them and make these comparisons i think because it's such

a difficult thing to do that's why only two people that richie it's. not just because you're good player doesn't necessarily make a good manager for the good manager that is. could the least i mean this guy has come out of obscurity come from nowhere he was employed they sacked the manager before him on the seventh of. october last year and he was appointed da played his first game on the nine and ninth of october came they had to when they had traveled to ukraine won the game two nil got into the playoffs to qualify for for the world championships beat greece and accurate for one and they're here now in the world cup final he has made a name of himself he is today naming again an unchanged team from the semifinals so we've got some players super searching gold right back the best book the best defender in the world according to himself then vienna and storage that's a back for the only place that i could teach a bra sewage as a chew in front of them and then we've got again the excitement red beach much rich

heritage and zuki up front. walk water of a career that he's had in only seven months you know from now on anybody he's thrust into difficult circumstances and just excels beyond all expectation i'm going to call that doing a dollar each let's head now to our correspondent gathered around sydney. the action areas and we can go first. just by the luzhniki stadium my goodness the excitement must be tremendous this is a once in a lifetime chance for many people i suspect to like say. well it that mysterious building up and it's absolutely phenomenal i would say the dominance in terms of chanting and bringing the positivity around luzhniki is with the croatian fans a lot of red and white checkered shots around here they are very excited very nervous as well for them it's history in the making they are now in the finals it's

better than what they did in one thousand nine hundred eight and they obviously hoping for a win the french fans also in great numbers here very very confident that they will prevail tonight of course that is something we will know in several hours now not only founds will be present at luzhniki tonight there will be also high profile jets which includes eleven presidents of and leaders of the country including the creation president of course. which is here she met her russian counterpart only a jury of the day gave him her a sion jersey a football jersey and exchange she got a bouquet of flowers from president putin and after that she issued a very heartfelt thank you for to russia for hosting the world cup let's listen to that. event i think. the. young. people making. that night that yes. everything's fine.

just a short while ago i spoke to one of the croatian fans who arrived actually yesterday from creation it seems like a very very considerable part of the four million country is now in moscow to support their team so monaco told me about his expectations and what the potential win of creation could mean for his country. you're right yesterday in the energy we feel to be a part it was amazing all the russians seeing us come on you will be the champions come on this positive energy with recovered from the cold war is unbelievable unbelievable so are you champions and i really hope you so so maybe if moderates lifts six kilograms of gold about you said tonight you will have

a stadium next year or three always hoping that things will change you always looking to the better probably will miss the plane from tomorrow. which makes the creation story even more so unique that they in fact do not have a national stadium so if they win tonight as marco hopes maybe there will be a stadium in zagreb where the national team the heroes but tension here as of tonight can play that's something of course we'll know in several hours the closing ceremony is now about to kick on and i will go there and i will bring you all the details as how it unfolds i thank you very much i think you should just for now i think today you look like a little schoolboy with a massive. give a scene that before i think is that i think you get down to a very nice let's move to where to the fans you go and then of is that the plan was going on there. was going to say you believe probably most likely the most international route that you have that you want to make

a line on the single call but of course mostly fans of those. like i would only love to completely write down the rebellion mexicans ukrainians were looking. pretty simply present but of course most of those. few hundred meters away from. those countries. history being made don't look like. clothing the only thing you know they can see the final game for example. we met one month here to see the semifinal store fronts win and then stayed in mushroom freelancing as a photographer just to earn enough money to get that to get to earn that ticket to the final games and we also had more talk with some french fans here's what they had to say they are pretty confident.

of course we will win but how much one zero maybe one zero zero for existence two zero four from start three zero i was there like you trained yours was a can you be. one to one go out and. give you. maybe a visit and maybe somebody show omarosa. god . was oh. so you putting yourself a lot of old being put in that nineteen year old french prodigy not paying but here i mean there's still quite some time before the game will be shown at the flat screens behind me still already a few thousand people have been gathered and probably

a lot more still to come i'll be here we go the. good. many thanks they are absolutely packed and from park in moscow and plenty more people many more in fact we had to paris now shall the do business our correspondent and spanish mike was saying it might know the been a big fan of did a shot coming into the store and they will love and know if he manages to win today's final we have lost shallow dubious he was trying to get the signal back but look we've got people and place on we've been talking about substitute for the super sub list. little bit more about the place you spoke about the creation it failed and if some some not because they got a lot of star players in key positions. everyone talks about him but should we be talking about others as well but we can talk about the whole friends till we talk about the whole squad it's quality quality and quality as nothing else can be said

about it so again i've said this a few times friends that only what they had to do in the group phase very experienced to get through that without using too much energy and then they turned it on i know if you look at the result in the last sixteen games against argentina for three looks like a really tight game it wasn't it was they were they absolutely hammered argentina and were a little bit sloppy it had to be say and said moments of that came with a haven't played have a say in but in that came at papa really turned it on he showed us why he is a will be that some of the most expensive players in the world he was absolutely fantastic but when you look at greece man top scorer from two years ago and you're in the your matuidi place for your bench is fantastic we talked about. we also have in the french team a guy who didn't have a great year and wasn't playing in the last two games of the final in the semifinals in the us two years ago in

a county and county is key to b.c. he is the best way to sort of describe him is a vacuum cleaner he simply cleans everything up there isn't a bit of dust anyway he deals with all that this leaves players like to be more creative and so you've got craic pos of polling for class in front of him you know and he can do that you can take the chance that he knows if he loses the ball on a risky pass or whatever then still someone back there who just cleans everything off i can you imagine playing behind someone like canting. the defenders you know. vote on in the middle they're absolutely top class defenders about on the right hand side and understand the other they can bomb for. this amazing go against argentina . this is all down to apply to one player can see he allows the whole team to do all that meaning that france if they want to they can go after it because they've

got this this plan is unbelievable sentient cog around which everything else is able to turn you took that about france and built momentum i'm pretty sure that we were seeing a build up of momentum in paris in terms of fun expectation and excitement big crowds that let's head over to france now we have a connection with our correspondent charlotte durbin and i was just saying charlotte how they might not have particularly loved the money to date a shot coming into this competition but they have to idolize him if he manages to win today. well neal i can't quite work out what you're saying. thank you and. many thanks and waiting and hoping that they think. it's things went. well and they feel this is the time after the world cup to come back here many

people saying they expect the school to be one zero cheezy when they don't expect any of the situation plays to school because they think this is going to be a front state and hundreds of thousands of people come out to the streets iran seems harriss you know there are tons of things in several parts of the city where people are watching the match waiting to cheer on the blues because they think. oh. oh this was the fans here. this. i'll say there is. things we've done present my son he's going to be. fine seems he said he that's the semifinals he was he says you me that in a minute if you see me singing not me if you seems not. right to think as you can sonny and they think it's going to be

a when you sing to. many thanks show it enjoy what looks like a fantastic atmosphere. and we're losing the signal i think i suspect also because there are so many people by so many phones so many signals bouncing around it's difficult to keep connect you know it says something which is really important. to just think about before this game starts in about half an hour's time. and that there's a feeling i have is that the french media has kind of done the same mistake i see english we did it before they played crazy in the semifinal so when you were reading the english media they were saying we have to win this game because these players has been through two games of one hundred twenty minutes plus penalty shoot out they have had less days for rest in between so how can we not win but what they didn't take into account was how much it means how much pride these guys from crazy they play with how much it means for them to crunch which is you know what it was

it was established in one thousand nine hundred one so it's not that many years ago we've been in a similar situation before where the country is upset if they've taken off from from having these great results and we are up here yesterday we kind of we could feel the pride. when you have that and it's of well cup final you can find all the energy in the world i want to happen this week or this this before the final that's been the french media has done exactly the same we have not played extra time we have had the easy run into the game and we also have one more day of extra rest crazy i haven't done now this is the. we have to win this is what they think how does it feel as a player when you're aware that this is expectation not hope that you'll win that expectation that you're with but the thing is it's very very little that you have energy to sort of read in the. what because because you obviously you have doing conflict with the media and.