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"Quickly Sunday!" for a French team "at the gates of paradise": the French press, willingly critical in a first round trot, ignites Wednesday, the day after the qualification of the Blues for the final of the World Cup-2018. [19659003] "All Blues all flame towards the final", Sunday (17:00 French) in Moscow, is enthusiastic in Liberation internal pages, after his wink in Une to the Sunday show of Michel Drucker.
Against Belgium (1-0), the Blues have managed "something crazy", showing "fantastic mastery and strategy," believes the team. "It's the third final (world) of France in twenty years and it's crazy," adds the sports daily, for whom the players of coach Didier Deschamps may have "The head in the stars."
" Heroes, the Blues can dream of a second star, "adds Le Figaro twenty years after the first world title won by the team of Captain Didier Deschamps, with a double of Zinedine Zidane in the final.
A" second star who will propel them into another galaxy ", continues the daily," that of multichampions of the world, alongside (in order of appearance) of Italy, Urguay, Brazil, Germany and Argentina "
For the Parisian, by the way, there is no doubt: whether against England or Croatia, who face off Wednesday night in the second semifinal, the Blues," at the gates of paradise "," will be favorites for the supreme title. "
" There is more Zidane but a slew of great players in good players. It is perhaps more a team, a collective than a formation turned around a genius ", still badyzes Le Parisien, renaming this team" Les indestructibles ".
-" Duo of beefy "-
The Blues, "monstrous" against the Red Devils, have once again been able to rely on their "block" defensive "has held good", says Le Monde.
A block carried by "a duo of sturdy "in central defense consisting of Raphael Varane and Samuel Umtiti, and a Hugo Lloris" Giant Size "in goals, marvels The Team which gives them all three his best score of the day (8). [19659003] The photo of the surprise striker Samuel Umtiti, more used to saving goals than to score, appears in all the newspapers, who rub their eyes to see the defender of Barcelona, spared between the matches of this Mondial because knee pain, being the hero of the day.
"He is a wounded player, caring every day since he has set foot in Russia, which opened the doors of a world final to the French team Tuesday in St. Petersburg ", savored Liberation.
Twenty years after Lilian Thuram's even more unexpected double against Croatia (2-1), Umtiti came "to maintain the French tradition of defenders who score in World Cup semi-finals every twenty years", amuses L'Equipe.
In the image from the newspaper of La Haute Marne, all the dailies also salute "the determining role of the coach, Didier Deschamps", long "severely criticized", but which "has caused a great team to spring" since the eighth finals.
Sunday, he could become the third man to win the World Cup as a player and coach, after the Brazilian Mario Zagallo and the German Franz Beckenbauer.
What to put the fire on the Champs-Elysées already invaded Tuesday night by a crowd in blue -white-red that also appears widely in the newspapers. "It's beautiful, a united France" exclaims Le Parisien.
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