DIRECT World Cup 2018. Uruguay

It's coming! We are only a few hours away from the quarter-finals of the 2018 World Cup between Uruguay and France. Follow live pre-match on our site. The pressure begins to rise and fans from both countries flock to Nizhny Novgorod to watch the match. The beginning of the match is scheduled at 4 pm

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Friday 06 July
                

10:53
    

Uruguay – France (16 h)

13:32
    

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13h54
    

Pavard supported in music by his Stuttgart teammates

13h50
    

The postcard of Nizhny Novgorod, where the Blues play their quarter

World Cup 2018. The postcard of Nizhny Novgorod Ouest-France.fr 400 km east Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, the fifth largest city in Russia, is not the most beautiful in the country, without wanting to be unkind. Although the site is beautiful at the edge of the Volga, the giant river that then passes Kazan before descending to the Caspian Sea. But it has an excuse: it was fiercely bombed during the Second World War by the Luftwaffe who was trying to destroy the arms factories there.

13h48
    

The Blues face their pet peeve

The France team and Celeste have met three times in the World Cup. The Blues have never won. It is besides the opponent whom they have confronted the most without beating him (Opta).

1:41 p.m.
    

Kylian Mbappé, a suit to endorse

The young French prodigy has emerged as one of the faces of this team of France. In the round of 16, against Argentina, he had impressed. Against Uruguay, all French fans rely on him.

World Cup 2018. Uruguay – France: Kylian Mbappé, the match after Ouest-France.fr In front of Argentina last Saturday in the round of 16 of the World Cup, the striker France team flew over the proceedings and aroused the admiration of the world. This Friday (5 pm) in Nizhny Novgorod, against Uruguay in the quarter-final, his mission will be complicated: it will confirm, facing a less conciliatory defensive opposition. Will Kylian Mbappé be up to it?

13h38
    

The show at the rendezvous this time?

The history of meetings between Uruguay and France does not inspire confidence … Hoping that the teams will manage to break the Indian sign .

1:35 p.m.
    

Probable team compositions

The official team compositions will be unveiled in a little less than 1h30. In the meantime, here are the trends on the twenty-two actors who will start the meeting at 4 pm in Nizhny Novgorod.

World Cup 2018. Uruguay – France: the probable compounds Ouest-France.fr The French team plays its place in the semi-finals of the World Cup this Friday against Uruguay ( 16 h). The composition of the Blues should not contain surprise, Tolisso replacing Matuidi, suspended. On the side of Uruguay, the only question concerns Cavani, wounded and uncertain

13h31
    

A penalty shootout?

Of the eight games in the round of 16 of the 2018 World Cup, three ended with a penalty shootout. And what if it was also the case for the Blues against Uruguay?

World Cup 2018. Uruguay – France: and if it was necessary to go through the penalties on the goal? West- France.fr The French team plays its place in the semifinals of the World Cup this Saturday (5 pm) against Uruguay in Nizhny Novgorod. The match looks tense, tight, facing a South American defense so far intractable. The possibility of a penalty shoot-out to decide the fate of this meeting can not be ruled out. Did the Blues prepare for it?

13h26
    

Blues in white

Facing the Celeste and his traditional shirt sky blue, the players of Didier Deschamps will evolve in white, shorts and socks included.

13h19
    

This is the eighth time France has played in a quarter-final World Cup, for five qualifications so far. It has stopped only twice at this stage in its history.

1:07 p.m.
    

Hello and welcome to all on our website to watch the first quarter-final of the 2018 World Cup between Uruguay and France.

The principles that govern the game of the colchonero club are also echoed in that of Uruguay. And a little of the French team …

Uruguay version Atlético

Meaning of sacrifice, vice, organization, taste of the duel, vertical play, compactness of a defense led by the same hinge (Godin – Gimenez, the best of the World Cup with the pair Miranda – Thiago Silva) … The parallel is obvious between Celeste and Atlético. "Diego Simeone should have been Uruguayan, not Argentinian" smiles the coach (Uruguayan) of Bordeaux, Gustavo Poyet

But the trainer of Atlético also likes all-terrain pressing, not exactly a feature of the game of Uruguay, which aligns a less experienced and prefers to wait down his opponent.

And the French version Atlético

Deschamps is not Simeone and there are more offensive talents in the Blues than at home. Atlético. But like Simeone, DD first tries to adapt to the opponent and always ends up favoring combat players who think collective first. Like Lucas Hernandez, trained in Madrid, whom he installed in the left-hand side and whose "grinta" is very South American. "We see that Lucas is in the Simeone team by his way of pressing, his aggressiveness, his aggressiveness" Adil Rami says.

At the top of 4-4-2, Griezmann revolves around Giroud with the Blues. At Atlético, in a similar play organization, he does the same with Diego Costa, whose profile is similar to that of Giroud. "Grizou" has better landmarks with Costa, but it can not be disoriented in selection …