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That's all folks, thank you for choosing Sport24 for the coverage of this World Cup Semi-final clash as France beat Belgium and booked their place in the tournament final.

That's all folks, thank you for choosing <strong>Sport24</strong> for the coverage of this World Cup Semi-final clash as France beat Belgium and booked their place in the tournament final. <br />

10 Jul 2018

MATCH REPORT

10 Jul 2018

Man of the Match | Samuel Umtiti

The defender grabbed the decisive goal to book France's place in the World Cup final.

10 Jul 2018

FULL-TIME: France 1-0 Belgium

France defeat Belgium to book a place in the World Cup Final!!

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95' Courtois pulls off a diving save off of Mbappe to tip it around the post.

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93' Vertonghen goes into the book for a frustrated looking foul on Mbappe.

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91' Mbappe gets booked for time wasting.

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90' Chadli is replaced by striker Michy Batshuayi

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90' The fourth official signals 6 minutes of added time.

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88' The ball is driven into Lukaku who should have gotten on the end of it with the goal at his mercy.

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86' Kante now goes into the referee's book for a pull on Hazard.

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85' Tolisso replaces the injured Matuidi.

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83' France make a defensive change as Giroud is replaced by Steven Nzozi.

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80' Really good long-range hit by Witsel that Lloris punches away just out of the reach of a Belgian player.

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79' Belgium make their second change as Fellaini is replaced by Carrasco.

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78' Hazard goes on another run and goes down under a challenge by Goroud by the referee says play on.

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75' Hazard finds De Bruyne who can hit them but the midfielder fails to keep his left-footed effort down.

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74' Alderweireld is booked by the referee.

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73' France 1-0 Belgium

Belgium are now swinging in cross after cross as they look to equalise!

We're into the final 20 MINUTES!

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67' France now dropping deeper into their own half with veteran defender Vincent Kompany impressive in the ball-playing defensive role for Belgium so far.

67' France now dropping deeper into their own half with veteran defender <strong>Vincent Kompany</strong> impressive in the ball-playing defensive role for Belgium so far.<br />

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67' France now dropping deeper into their own half with veteran defender Vincent Kompany impressive in the ball-playing defensive role for Belgium so far.

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65' Belgium are enjoying 59% of possession to France's 41% but importantly find themselves trailing.

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64' Lovely ball in by Mertens that Lloris has to punch away.

CHANCE for Belgium from another cross as Fellaini just outs his header wide!

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62' Hazard gets a yellow card for a cynical pull on Matuidi as France were looking to break.

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60' CHANCE for Belgium as the ball falls to De Bruyne on the volley but the onrushing France defence just does enough to put him off!

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59' Belgium make an attacking change as Mertens replaces Mousa Dembele.

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55' France now playing some sublime football with both Alderweireld then Kompany making some last-ditch blocks to deny the French.

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50' France 1-0 Belgium

Samuel Umtiti gives France the lead from a corner and scores his first competitive international goal!! France are now sniffing the World Cup final!

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50' FRANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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49' Nervy moment for the France defence as De Bruyne tried to play in Lukaku with Umtiti just doing enough to thwart the attack.

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47' Good looking ball into Lukaku who can't direct his header on goal under some pressure by Varane.

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Olivier Giroud is yet to hit the target with any of his 10 shots at this #WorldCup.

He is the only one of the 84 players to have attempted six or more shots at the tournament and yet to hit the target with a single one. ? pic.twitter.com/pW3tz7SI8J
— Squawka Football (@Squawka) July 10, 2018

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46' France 0-0 Belgium

Belgium gets us back underway in the second-half.

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HT: France 0-0 Belgium

The midfield battle is a tough one, but it is difficult for both teams to find their No9s. Neither Giroud or Romelu Lukaku have had the ball at their feet.

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Half-Time KEY STATISTICS: France 0-0 Belgium

Neither side managing to score with Belgium dominating possession.

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HALF-TIME: France 0-0 Belgium

Eden Hazard has looked the most likely to score for Belgium in a high-quality first-half.

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45' There will be 1 minute of added time.

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43' Pogba is brought down by Dembele on the edge of the box. Griezmann will fancy this!

Griezmann hits it into the wall.

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42' France 0-0 Belgium

The quality of the game is very high. No wonder both teams have made it to the final four. The players seem to have risen their level even higher than during the quarter-finals. We haven't seen a lot of free-kicks or breaks in play, while the technical attributes and precision passing has been superb too.

<p>42' <strong>France 0-0 Belgium</strong></p><p>The quality of the game is very high. No wonder both teams have made it
to the final four. The players seem to have risen their level even
higher than during the quarter-finals. We haven't seen a lot of
free-kicks or breaks in play, while the technical attributes and
precision passing has been superb too.</p>

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39' BEST CHANCE OF THE MATCH falls to Pavard for France from the right but Courtois' legs comes to Belgium's rescue!

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35' Griezmann picks up the ball in his own half and goes on a gliding run onto the edge of the Belgium box but drags his shot wide.

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33' CHANCE for France as Mbappe pulls a first-time ball back across the face of goal but the Belgium defence does just enough to thwart an onrushing Giroud.

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32' Griezmann cuts in on his weaker foot and flashes a shot over the crossbar from just outside the area.

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31' Hazard seems to want to run the show tonight and is looking to run at every opportunity at Pavard!

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30' France 0-0 Belgium

Belgium are playing with a swagger with France having to ride out the storm.Hazard has been tearing up the French defence!

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29' France are so far struggling to get going in this encounter with Belgium not allowing them to get in their stride.

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27' Another inviting ball by De Bruyne across the face of the goal that Umtiti does well to clear for a throw-in.

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24' France win their first corner as Hernandez goes on an overlap before Alderweireld makes a timely intervention.

Fellaini clears the resulting corner-kick.

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22' Belgium in the opening stages are enjoying 58% of the possession to France's 42%.

It feels like more!

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20' De Bruyne hits in an in-swinger aimed at Fellaini that Varane again does well to clear.

WHAT A SAVE by Lloris who turns an Alderweireld shot around the post.

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