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I feel a bit cursed, I told a colleague jokingly after France's 1-0 win over Belgium, led by defender Umtiti and thus involved in his third final of the last six editions Coupes del Mundo
And I say damn because Brazil was on the road showing perhaps its best version in the match against the Belgians, because Holland did not qualify, and now the Red Devils, did not know not how and again in the second half of the duel to the "death", when the Gauls decided to retreat and multiply in defense after stroking the advantage.
Indeed, the commander of Didier Deschamps applied the same formula that has been effective throughout his career: deliver the ball and launch deadly counterattack kicks, with heavy and fresh legs Kylian Mbappé , and the intelligence of Antoine Griezmann.
Several of these new Blue Batch players arrive at their second big final online, after conceding at the hands of Portugal at the Euro 2016. For Deschamps the opportunity to be crowned in As a latent player and technician, embracing the front of a prodigious Umtiti, Tromba slipped and doubled Fellaini's curls after a Griezmann corner kick in the middle of the box.
It was the 51st minute and from then on the Gauls would start weaving the beginning of the Belgian end. The red devils who, like the generation of Enzo Scifo and Jean-Marie Pfaff in Mexico in 1986, were shipwrecked again. Owners of the ball, with an attitude of victory, but no real danger for Lloris, beyond the zapatazo that Toby Alderweireld released to Lloris and that he deviated with a paradon of one thousand carats.
In fact, a more talented generation of Red Devils is diluted in my opinion even from that of 86. I am talking about Eden Hazard, Romelu Lukaku, Kevin de Bruyne, Fellaini, Mertens and Thibaut Courtois himself. On them, again the curse that no country has managed to proclaim champion with a foreign coach on the bench.
It was a power struggle in power, yes. Roberto Martinez added a ring in the middle with Moussa Dembelé for Meunier, in a recovery duet with Witsel and gardeando with the short track to Mbappé and his trainees.
In fact, it seemed that the approach worked because the Belgians were made of Telstar, supported by four men in the background, and the mobility of Hazard and De Bruyne in attack with the lukaku in the process of goleador. Indeed, in the left lane, that of Hazard (superior to Pavard), there were the most dangerous opportunities of danger for the Lloris arc.
The shock was a Belgian dominion that remained in control and simulation. Little by little, the Belgians freeze and France begins to flare up with its lethal contras. Giroud had some obvious opportunities, but did not specify them, largely because he was not a center-forward born.
The first act fell and towards the two complementary ones maintained their respective formulas. Until the blessed head of Umtiti appears, with the added value of a final, after his irreverent irruption between Alderweireld and Felaini.
The score gives him a little more comfort and adaptation to his variants in France, which with Pogba and Kanté in the running, does not grant many freedoms to his opponents. In addition, Mbappé returned to do theirs, with talented doses, sprints and tacos pbades included.
The entrance of Mertens and Batshuayi, research with nails and teeth of equality and resurrection was of little use. Despair has overtaken the Belgians and Cronos has consumed them, with the desire to stop with faults a few chances of counterattack by the Gauls. St. Petersburg gave in to the blue wave that filled some of the stands and La Marseillaise was the song of victory.
Thus, as was the case when the two teams met in 1986, with France 4-3, the result was repeated. Third French victory in the World Cup in the same number of individual matches.
Umtiti, the hero of the crash, becomes the eighth Frenchman able to score in the semifinals.
This Wednesday will be played the other semifinal between England and Croatia. It is better not to tell them which team I support, not to level the possibility of a winner. Let the ground tell what definitive will meet Gaul in Moscow, which in one way or another will continue without believing in tears.
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