Didier Deschamps had no desire to answer a question on the eve of this game about whether France could end up as champions, a man who knows what it takes to win a World Cup stubbornly refusing to look too far into the distance. Deschamps, however, will only be able to avoid that subject for so long after France eased past Uruguay, courtesy of Raphaël Varane’s splendid header and an awful blunder by Fernando Muslera, to reach the World Cup semi-finals for the first time since 2006.
Argentina and now Uruguay have been dispatched en route to the last four and, ominously for those teams left, it feels as though there is still so much more to come from France. What is clear is that the last thing they need is for anyone to give them a helping hand, but that is exactly what Uruguay did here.
Written by Stuart James at the Nizhny Novgorod Stadium
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jul/06/uruguay-france-world-cup-quarter-final-match-report under the title “Antoine Griezmann seals France’s World Cup quarter-final win over Uruguay”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
