Uruguay-France: last hours before the "fight" – CM 2018



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Hot topics around Mbappé and Cavani, waiting around an intense confrontation: the day of Thursday in Nizhny Novgorod looked like a weapons vigil. Tension less …

It floated above the Volga, a huge river that surrounds Nizhny Novgorod, a form of serenity on Thursday. A soft sun, a summer atmosphere and an astonishing silence had settled on its banks. A silence barely disturbed by the police boats that circulated in this maroon water, a few tens of meters, there in the distance and by soldiers with detectors … anti-mines.

Nothing or almost nothing suggested that in a few hours, this mbadive and circular ring, planted a few meters from the river, would be the scene of a quarter-final World Cup. Russia's fifth largest city, about 400 kilometers east of Moscow, was barely shaken by the arrival of some 3,000 blue supporters. The Uruguayan contingent, a few more numerous, took place in the aisles of the city center. Shirts sky blue, beards and muscles apparent, calabashes of fragrant mate in the hands: all …

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