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Vertonghen countered in the 85th minutee minute a strike from Randal Kolo Muani which thus delivered the Blues who were ineffective for a long time and still incapable of scoring the slightest goal in the game in this competition, except thanks to two own goals and a penalty.
“We had quite a few chances, but unfortunately we didn’t really hit the target. We have to savour it, we can’t trivialise it, we’re in the quarter-finals and they’re going home,” commented Didier Deschamps.
The Blues lack inspiration
In the next round, France will face either Portugal or Slovenia, who will play each other this Monday evening in Frankfurt.
Randal Kolo Muani came on after an hour of play to replace Marcus Thuram who, like the rest of the blue attack, showed little inspiration offensively.
Only his head (34e) at the near post, following a nice cross from Jules Koundé on the right side, grazed the post of Koen Casteels, before Aurélien Tchouaméni offered two heavy strikes which did not find the frame.
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A third, at the start of the second half, was pushed back by Casteels, while Kylian Mbappé, on one of his rare flashes on Monday, fired a shot that went a little too far over the opposing goal (53e).
Opposite, the Belgians were not much more inspired but had the best chances.
Maignan had to push away a free kick from Kevin de Bruyne with his foot (24e), a strike from Romelu Lukaku (70th) and another from De Bruyne (83rde), and Théo Hernandez made a perfect tackle in front of Yannick Carrasco in his area (61e).
As in 2018, at the World Cup in Russia, the Belgians came out with the smallest gap against France.
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