Football: The strongest post-zero generation

France and Croatia played the second semi-final of the 2018 World Cup in Russia due to the careful play of both sides, and there were few chances created in the first ten minutes.

It wasn't until the eighteenth minute of the game that Griezmann was brought down by Brozovic on the right rib of the attack, and the referee Kakir decisively blew the whistle for a foul and awarded a direct free kick to the French team in a fairly good position.

However, Griezmann, who took the free-kick, did not shoot directly with his left foot, he passed the ball to the back of the box, and the aggressive defending Mandzukic accidentally pushed the ball into his own goal, and goalkeeper Subasic could not even react.

In this way, the French team got off to a dream start 1-0.

Even though Li Qing, who watched the live broadcast, has traveled to this world for nearly two years, he still remembers this game in the depths of his memory that the two teams that were supposed to be the Champions League finals met in the semifinals due to Li Qing's intervention, and I thought that the process would change, but according to the game process, it seems that this game should not change.

Sure enough!

Nine minutes later, Croatia equalised when centre-back Vida stomped the ball on the edge of the penalty area, Perisic, who slotted the ball to the left with the inside of his right foot and fired a shot away from angle.

Croatia, who equalised, quickly launched a counter-attack to try to overtake the score in one fell swoop, but Didier Deschamps' French team played shrewdly, opting to defend passively and prepare for a quick counter-attack.

In the 32nd minute, the French team quickly counterattacked, and Lovren chose a good position to block Mbappe's shot from the bottom line.

Griezmann took a corner kick, Matuidi headed back in the middle, and was blocked by Perisic with his hand, referee Kakir did not blow the whistle at the time, but VAR entered, through slow motion replay, referee Kakir decisively signaled a penalty.

Antoine Griezmann converted the penalty to help France go ahead again.

The 2-1 score remained unchanged until the end of the first half, and in the second half, the first 10 minutes were the same as at the beginning of the first half, and the first 10 minutes were played very carefully, so they did not create absolute chances.

In the 58th minute, Pogba sent a very imaginative through ball, which was perfectly combined with Mbappe's speed, and Pogba's pass to the bottom line on the right side of the penalty area was blocked, but it was still received by Griezmann in the middle of the box, who handed it to Pogba who followed up.

Perisic blocked it very timely with his body, but what he didn't expect was that the block did not block the football away, but on the contrary, he also indirectly gave Pogba a shot, only to see Pogba pick up his left foot and shoot again in the huge chant of tens of thousands of French fans, and the football rolled to the lower left corner of the goal against the ground, and the score displayed on the scoreboard then became 3:1.

Five minutes later, France scored another goal that nearly killed the game.

Lucas Hernandez counter-attacked and handed the ball to Mbappe, who followed up in the middle on the right flank, and Mbappe suddenly fired a cold arrow, Subasic was clearly prepared not to do it, and then reacted, and the ball flew into the bottom left corner of the goal.

The French team led 41, and then there was another scene that made Li Xin, Varane passed back to goalkeeper and captain Lloris, perhaps it was the relaxation of the mentality brought by the big score, Lloris, who has always dealt with the ball, chose to dribble in the face of Mandzukic who grabbed the ball, but Mandzukic stretched out his foot, and the ball was refracted into the net, helping Croatia chase the score to 2:4

England assistant coach Alan Russell suddenly said seriously: "This kind of thing, I hope everyone can not appear in the final, enter the World Cup finals industry players dream of the opportunity, since we have such an opportunity, we should cherish it, we must not relax our guard like Hugo Lloris, as long as the game is not over, we must go all out, you know?"

"Sir, we got it. "

The players said in unison.

As Alan Russell said, the World Cup final chance is a dream and any small mistake could cost the champion.

Judging by the current scoreline, the final opponent will be France, one of the biggest favorites to win this World Cup, and against a team with top configuration in all three lines and goalkeeper positions, there must not be a single mistake.

The score of 42 continued until the end of the game, which is equivalent to saying ...... England's opponent in the final of the World Cup in Russia is France, who have also won the World Cup once!

At full-time, England manager Gareth Southgate also returned to Moscow on his latest flight to prepare for the World Cup final at the Luzhniki Stadium four days later.

France's win is a result that occurs without accidents, and there are no accidents in the game, the final against France did not bring any pressure to the English players, it can only be said that if you want to win in the next final, you must play 100% attention, otherwise it will be difficult to win the game even if you have a pervert like Li Qing.

France's total value is the highest of all 32 teams, reaching 1.08 billion euros, while England's total value of 985 million euros ranks third, slightly behind Spain, who were eliminated by the host Russia in the quarterfinals.

If you look at the latest value of players in Germany's "Transfer Market", England and France are almost the same.

France's squad rose to 1.352 billion euros and England's to 1.28 billion euros, which means that the 2018 World Cup final in Russia is currently the two most expensive teams in the world.

In this way, the battle between England and France at the level of the World Cup final will be more interesting.

The most in the history of the World Cup: a showdown worth 2.6 billion euros!

A higher value may not mean that you will win the game, but the higher the value of the player, the stronger the player's ability, one ring after another, that is, the overall strength is strong, which means that the overall strength of France is stronger than England.

In addition to Li Qing's ring, England's position on the field is only Harry Kane in the center forward position is stronger than Giroud, not to mention crushing other positions, it is at least a step worse.

The history of the two sides is that England have the upper hand, a total of 40 meetings, England have the upper hand with 16 wins, 6 draws and 8 defeats, seven major tournaments, two World Cups, and five European Championships.

Interestingly, England kept winning all of their matches against France in the World Cup, and the European Championship was France unbeaten against England, with two wins and three draws, but England beat France in the World Cup for a long time, and recently traced back to the 1982 World Cup in Spain, which has little reference value.

The last meeting between the two sides was in June last year, when France beat England 3-2 at the Stade de France, and the most recent major meeting was at Euro 2012, when the two sides played out 1-1.

Six years ago, the European Championships were not very useful, with Lloris and Matuidi remaining in France's squad for 2012, while England were left with Cahill, Milner and Ashley Young.

Of course, these are the problems left for journalists and football lovers, with the England and France players turning their ears on the World Cup final, which starts with three days to go!

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