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45: Samuel Umtiti Down
Umtiti entered the fray in this last turn and never got up again. The French coaches are eliminated, which means he will be out for this next turn, probably the last of the half. Giroud has made a lot of clearances lately.
44: Corner for Croatia
Croatia wins a corner after some defeats of France. Rakitic takes, but he is handed to him for another.
41: Another Yellow for France
The second yellow of France goes to Lucas Hernandez for a foul in the midfield.
39: Let the Second-Guessing Begin
It will be interesting to see how this is perceived today and tomorrow and next week. It seemed more a second look at a judgment than the reversal of a clear and obvious mistake. But I guess the clear and obvious mistakes seem different from the French and Croatian citizens right now.
38 & # 39; GRIEZMANN SCORES! France leads, 2-1
Antoine Griezmann rolls calmly to the left while Subasic dives to his left. (19659011) Penalty in the #WorldCup final?
Nothing for Antoine Griezmann
Fortnite at the #WorldCup final. What time. pic.twitter.com/vrGhRIiLYF
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July 15, 2018
37: This is a penalty!
Great luck for France! Pitana took a looooong look and saw what we all saw: a handball. And he decided that it was a penalty. This will be a big topic of discussion, since it was as if it could have gone one way or the other. But V.A.R. was designed for just that kind of moment. It goes without saying that it is the first test in the final of the World Cup. But will he DECIDE a World Cup final?
36: V.A.R.
Great moment: on the replay, it looks like a handball. But he hit it, and he was in a natural position. But we'll see …..
34: Corner for France … Handball?
Antoine Griezmann's corner reaches Matuidi in the box, and his head passes next to the post. The French claim a handball on Perisic, and it's a very big test for V.A.R.
32: Kante must be careful
The yellow of Kanté is even bigger now that Croatia is same, for that matter. They can run on him, challenge him, and hope that Pitana sees something that crosses the line and sends him. It would be a nightmare for France; It's really their most indispensable player.
29: Great open play
The goal really drives things as France hoped to slow them down. And now there is a spring in the Croatian march.
28 "SCORES OF CROATIA! We are even!
Ivan Perisic gets the last shot after a series of headers that bring him a free kick from Modric in the box. The shot, from a nice shift, touched Varane at the hip and deviated a little further away from Lloris's reach
27 "Yellow for Kante
Yellow card for Kante , which marks the heel of Perisic as it breaks the middle, dangerously. It is better to keep an eye on this; The game of Kante sometimes implies – prosperous – faults like that. But now he can not do it.
22 & # 39 ;: Here Comes the Rain
It just started raining here after the goal, but life is definitely out of the Croatian crowd.
Victor Mather: Alert of statistical curiosity. France has a goal, but still no official shot. Because Griezmann's blast was diverted for a purpose against his side, he does not receive credit for a shot.
21: Croatia Free Kick Handled
Croatia receives a similar opportunity with a free kick on the other end Lloris collects for a goal kick
It is remarkable, really, that given the amount of talent that they have, #FRA was set up to play on the counter. It works for them, so it's okay, but it's so counter-intuitive that it's almost perverse.
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July 15, 2018
18: GOAL! France leads …
A foul gave Griezmann a free kick about 30 yards to the left, and he shoots a ball that Mandukic directs on Subasic in his own net.
It's still a risk, but it's a disaster for Croatia, which has done everything right. And as we noted, they failed to make it a goal. And now, they are in a hole, maybe unfairly, and France can do what France has done: just tighten up, and do not make mistakes. Terzble luck for Mandzukic, however, who did his job and involuntarily put him in the net.
First goal against his own camp in a final #WorldCup .
– 12th goal of the tournament.
-71st goal of the match at the set of the tournament (on 164 goals) pic.twitter.com/l9dbSNnwVu
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15: Croatia needs to convert
Croatia will really want to turn all this possession and explore something soon; If France fights through these first 15 or 20 minutes without paying a price by giving up a goal, it will probably find its marks. And Croatia can come to regret it.
Victor Mather: Something is missing from this game? How about a shot? There has been zero so far. No shots on net … zero shot of any kind with 15 minutes of play.
14: Putin in the House
Vladimir Putin is here today. for the final. It's only the second time that he's running for a match at this World Cup. The first was the first match
12 "France on his heels
A dozen minutes and Mbappé's only contact was in defense. Griezmann may not have touched the game yet.
10: Croatia controls this game until now
Modric, using the outside of his right foot , opens the French with a beautiful Strinic cross-field ball that overlaps, but Umtiti clears his cross. Nice time though, one of many for Croatia in the first 10 minutes when they had almost all the ball
Victor Mather: The defense of France was forced to clear the ball seven times already. Croatia has just one game.
8: Corner for Croatia
Strinic and Rakitic make a nice play there in the left corner, and Pogba has to come in to cut the first when he gets the ball in the area. Corner to Croatia.
Grioud takes it out ahead of Lloris, and the French are trying to come out.
6: Croatia takes the lead and the volume
The mood here is much better than that of some of those we had in the semifinals. This is largely due to the Croats, who took several sections behind their goal and who, sometimes, simply jog. The French contingent, much smaller at the other end, has not yet encouraged much.
5: Croatia continues to attack
Vrsaljko escapes for a moment deep in the right and shoots in a cross, but France is there to clear. Solving Varane and Umtiti will take better balls than this one, but it's a good thing for Croatia at the beginning
Victor Mather: Let's say this about Croatia: The team do not be afraid to shoot. Entering this game, he has 100 hits, third in the Cup behind Belgium (who played one more game) and Brazil. But the accuracy was not sensational: only 26 of these shots were on target, far behind Belgium and Brazil.
3: Varane the extinct
Perisic sounding the left is the first true test for France, but Varane, if smooth, slips on itself and extinguishes it entirely
1: Kickoff!
This ball out of bounds near the first minute was the first French touch of the day. It will be perfect for Croatia
The Anthems
Kylian Mbappé was absolutely beaming during the French anthem. One day when it would be understandable to be as tense as a 19 year old, the joy on his face was wonderful. I wonder if that suggests a big day ahead of him. "I want to win the World Cup," he said this week. "I want to sleep with that."
Final of the World Cup: the man in charge
The referee of today is the Argentine Nestor Pitana, a veteran with smooth hair and a the look of a colonel of the Argentine army. It does not generally tolerate fools, but definitely wants to stay out of action today.
The video assistant referee is an Italian, Massimiliano Irrati. The teams leave the tunnel. Almost the hour. The following hymns …
Bring the checkers!
Good news: France will be in blue today, which will allow Croatia to wear its fantastic checkered jerseys for the first time since the group stage.
France vs Croatia: chances
The tipsters clearly favor France in this match. France is considered a 45% chance of winning the match by regulation, Croatia being only 23% (the other 32% of the time will go into overtime). As for the final winner, he is 65-35 for France
The plus / minus, as it is the case for many international football matches, is 2. At 5-1, Antoine Griezmann of France is the favorite to score the first goal. Two other Frenchmen follow him, Mbappé and Giroud.
The composition of France
No change in the France team, which is not a surprise. Didier Deschamps remained more or less with the same starting lineup throughout the tournament. Expect them to line up in the same 4-2-3-1, with Giroud at the front as the spear's point and Griezmann, Mbappé and Matuidi buzzing around him.
Goalkeeper: 1 Hugo Lloris (Tottenham)
] Defenders: 21 Lucas Hernandez (Atletico Madrid), 2 Benjamin Pavard (Stuttgart), 5 Samuel Umtiti (Barcelona), 4 Raphael Varane (Real Madrid)
Backgrounds 13 Golo Kante (Chelsea), 14 Blaise Matuidi (Juventus), 6 Paul Pogba (Manchester United)
Forwards: 9 Olivier Giroud (Chelsea), 7 Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid), 10 Kylian Mbappé (Paris St-Germain)
Starting Composition of Croatia
familiar faces. Brozovic did a lot of support work against England to allow Rakitic and Modric to work freely. Perisic and Rebic will have to be active again on the wings, to try to spread the French and create holes. Many have tried, however;
Goalkeeper: 23 Danijel Subasic (Monaco)
Defenders: 21 Domagoj Vida (Besiktas), 3 Ivan Strinic (Milan), 6 Dejan Lovren (Liverpool), 2 Sime Vrsaljko (Atletico Madrid)
Midfielder: 10 Luka Modric (Real Madrid), 7 Ivan Rakitic (Barcelona), 11 Marcelo Brozovic (Inter Milan)
For: Ivan Perisic 4 (Inter Milan), 18 Ante Rebic (Fiorentina) [19659088] 17 Mario Mandzukic (Juventus)
The striker Nikola Kalinic of AC Milan is the only one who will certainly not play today. he is registered as absent on the score sheet of Croatia
France will not underestimate Croatia
Kylian Mbappé, 19, gave all the good notes of caution about Croatia on Friday.
Losing or cracking, they always have the mentality to come back, "he said. "It's a team that plays with a lot of intensity."
Croatia, surprise finalist
Croatia, a nation of 4.5 million people who gained independence in 1991, would not be the smallest country to win the World Cup. title remains Uruguay, probably in the foreseeable future). But that would probably be the biggest shock of the history of the World Cup. Even Uruguay, winner in 1930 and 1950, could claim to be the best team in the world in case of victory. But there has not even been a surprise finalist since Czechoslovakia in 1962.
Mbappé has his priorities in the order
The Frenchman Kylian Mbappé won the Golden Ball in as the best player in the world. "I do not care about that," he says. "I want the World Cup, I want to sleep with that."
Who is Zlatko Dalic?
It is safe to assume that few football fans in the world could have chosen Croatian manager Zlatko Dalic before the tournament. Although he had a long professional career as a defensive midfielder, mainly with Croatian clubs Varteks and Hadjuk Split, his coaching career is nothing remarkable. His three previous positions before taking up employment in Croatia were with two Saudi clubs and another in the United Arab Emirates.
But when Croatia fired the coach who led him through most of the qualifications, Ante Cacic, after a series of poor results The team's chances of qualifying for the Russia, Dalic was responsible for leading the team on the line. He guided him with a light touch here, making some compositional changes and acknowledging that he deferred to his players. (Asked why he had not evolved in the 90-minute against England in a grueling semifinal, Dalic admitted, "I wanted to replace, but no one wanted to be subbed." )
Another Chance for France
This is the second consecutive grand finale of France. He reached the finals of the European Championship at home in 2016, but lost against Portugal on a late goal in extra time, 1-0. Some people underline this defeat – a bitter disappointment after their methodical passage from the field to the final – as the danger of the conservative instincts of the director Didier Deschamps. If France were to fall again today as a favorite, wait for the first fingers to be pointed in its path.
France vs Croatia: a friendly rivalry
Do not be surprised if there are a lot of cuddles and friendly greetings in the tunnel before the match: Antoine Griezmann and Sime Vrsaljko are teammates of the team. Atlético Madrid, just like Raphael Varane, Luka Modric and Mateo Kovacic at Real Madrid. Mario Mandzukic and Blaise Matuidi play together at Juventus (where Paul Pogba was employed before joining Manchester United), and Croatian goalkeeper Daniel Subasic and Frenchman Djibril Sidibe are in Monaco, where until the end of the season. last year they attended the rise of Kylian Mbappé
An Extra Game for Croatia
With three more victories in the knockout stages, Croatia actually played one more match than France here.
Hugo Lloris Will not Wander
There may be no better example of the security mentality before the game of goaltender Hugo Lloris. A skillful wandering player with his feet for his club, Tottenham Hotspur, he is under orders not to roam for France. He was credited with just 11 saves in six games, but many of them were memorable game changers – against Belgian Toby Alderweireld in the semifinals, against Uruguayan Martin Caceres in the quarterfinals – says a lot about the success of the strategy. 19659110] Graphic
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