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Good afternoon. We are halfway through the second round of the | :00:26. | :01:03. | |
World Cup and four teams have secured their place. What a weekend | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
it turned out to be. It is a win or go home. Alexis | :01:11. | :01:23. | |
Sanchez has equalised for Chile. We have penalties. He has nerves of | :01:24. | :01:47. | |
steel. Often the post! Magic. Rodriguez! A devastating effect he | :01:48. | :02:00. | |
is having on these World Cup finals. Giovani dos Santos break the | :02:01. | :02:10. | |
deadlock. Sneijder has rescued it for the Netherlands. Brilliantly | :02:11. | :02:17. | |
done by Arjen Robben. Penalties for the Netherlands. The Netherlands are | :02:18. | :02:32. | |
into the last eight. Bryan Ruiz. They have done it. Unbelievable, | :02:33. | :02:49. | |
they have done it again. Costa Rica, quarterfinal. | :02:50. | :02:58. | |
It has been an enjoyable so far. This is how the sort -- tournament | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
is shaping up. Now it is France against Nigeria. | :03:01. | :03:21. | |
You can see in the team, the togetherness. They play very open | :03:22. | :03:32. | |
and attacking football. Five goals for the French. France are laying | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
down the marker at these World Cup finals. Nigeria are in dispute over | :03:38. | :03:51. | |
bonuses. Always expect the unexpected. | :03:52. | :04:00. | |
It is the first time these teams have met at a World Cup. France and | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
comfortable winners of Group F and on the last five occasions they have | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
reached the knockout said -- stages they have made the semifinals or | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
better. It is the first time Nigeria have got this far since 1998. They | :04:14. | :04:22. | |
finished second in their group behind Argentina and are trying to | :04:23. | :04:23. | |
become just the fourth African side to make the quarterfinals. Joining | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
me is Rio Ferdinand, Martin Keown and Danny Murphy. Normally you see | :04:32. | :04:41. | |
teams, they get through and they get a bit defensive and reserved. We | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
have seen free-flowing football. We can pick up a few things over the | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
weekend. One of the things we don't like to watch is diving. Robben has | :04:49. | :04:59. | |
been making the news. Great player, but he does throw himself around in | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
a theatrical manner. He has done it for so long, I feel embarrassed for | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
him. My family and friends would be disgusted at me. I thought it was a | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
foul. It is the way he goes down. The boy went off with a broken leg. | :05:20. | :05:25. | |
Maybe because of that one he gets the one near the end. If you keep | :05:26. | :05:34. | |
diving you will get penalties. The defenders, you don't go to ground. | :05:35. | :05:40. | |
You give him the opportunity to dive. As a defender you don't go to | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
ground, especially in the box. I watched this about 400 times | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
yesterday. There is no contact until Robben kicks him. And for a game of | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
that enormity to be decided on something like that, I find it | :05:59. | :06:07. | |
disappointing. I think Robben has got to the byline and has done | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
fantastic. As a defended, don't give him the opportunity to dive. Robben | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
has confessed to diving, not the penalty he says. He admitted this, " | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
I really had to say and apologise in the first half I dived and I should | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
not do that. It was a stupid thing to do but you are expecting to be | :06:31. | :06:36. | |
struck and then they pull their legs away at the last minute, those | :06:37. | :06:46. | |
rotten defenders". Everyone knows he does take a dive. But the pace he | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
runs at and trickery he has got it is difficult for defenders. But he | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
makes that difficult. We want to see diving stamped out. FIFA have | :06:59. | :07:11. | |
responded, we ask players to play in the spirit of Fairplay it is up to | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
the rectory to manage the match in all areas and issue cards to | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
discourage is this behaviour. Fairplay is the overarching message | :07:21. | :07:32. | |
to all players. It is difficult because he is admitting he will take | :07:33. | :07:42. | |
a dive if it is necessary. He is an nightmare to play against. He is not | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
the only one. I hate seeing it. On a more positive note, Brazil getting | :07:46. | :07:46. | |
through. Iconic image of the weekend. Shots of May be Neymar in | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
particular at the he scored that penalty. He has been absolutely | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
brilliant. The penalties in general were not good quality. He stays nice | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
and calm and the pressure is on him. Every game he has grown with that | :08:06. | :08:13. | |
pressure. And Chile missed by a fraction. They start to feel that | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
this is going to be there World Cup. Possibly goal of the tournament from | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
Rodriguez? This is my favourite goal. He has to adjust is feet. His | :08:25. | :08:35. | |
touch, adjustments and then have that! I had the pleasure of seeing | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
it live and there was a shock that he had done it. His performances up | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
until that point, he has shown his quality. Rio tipped him as one of | :08:47. | :08:54. | |
the star performers. They can dance as well inverse celebration. | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
Rodriguez has looked over his shoulders and then blasts it in. | :09:01. | :09:04. | |
Last night we had another penalty shoot out. Even in this tournament, | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
perhaps the most boring games have become exciting and this did at the | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
end. This is the substitute and the quality of the penalties in the | :09:17. | :09:26. | |
shoot out were brilliant. Superb penalty to finish it off. Without | :09:27. | :09:33. | |
being critical of the Greeks, I Costa Rica have played a bit better | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
and I'm glad they have gone through. A few days ago the Nigerian players | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
were threatening to strike in a row over unpaid bonuses. It needed the | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
intervention of the Nigerian president to restore the union of | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
the squad to be able to go one better than their predecessors. It | :09:52. | :10:01. | |
was in America in 1994 Nigeria showed a world what they were made | :10:02. | :10:12. | |
of. An extra time Italian penalty brought their memorable debut to an | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
end but the super Eagles had arrived. All of a sudden, Palais's | :10:16. | :10:25. | |
prediction that an African team would win the World Cup before the | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
year 2000 did not look so ridiculous. But Palais was wrong. In | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
Nigeria's case, very wrong. 4-0 and another mistake by the Nigerian | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
goalkeeper. At times, there World Cup campaigns since 1994 have been a | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
shambles. Disputes are a constant threat and even their passage to the | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
last 16 here involved a presidential intervention to prevent a player | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
rebellion. Stephen Carr she was part of the wonderful team from 1994 and | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
then he is their 19th manager in the 20 years since. His number two, and | :11:06. | :11:15. | |
the old guard are inspiring the new. But football fans are fickle the | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
world over. The opening draw with Iran prompted calls for an overhaul. | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
Make no mistake, the manager has one of the toughest jobs at this World | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
Cup. I am new into this game and anything I can get out of it to be a | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
better coach, I would love to have it. For the past 16 years Nigeria | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
has never qualified for the second round. We are in the second round | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
here in Brazil. It is a wonderful thing to continue to see. A United | :11:50. | :12:01. | |
Nigeria have the talent to travel France, but they could also implode. | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
Get the better of Didier Deschamps, and the manager will be an all | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
African hero. But with defeat, even with his credentials, may come at a | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
price. Nigeria warming up in Brasilia. 27 | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
degrees so that he'd could be a factor. This is the side that has | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
been selected. The goalkeeper 21 clean sheets last | :12:22. | :12:41. | |
season. The back four are unchanged. Babatunde is out with a broken wrist | :12:42. | :12:52. | |
so Moses returns. Emenike is up front on his own. | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
Ahmed Musa has caught everybody's attention, he was dynamic against | :12:59. | :13:07. | |
Argentina? He has been the best player in the Premiership. His pace | :13:08. | :13:14. | |
is ridiculous. He wants to get on sheep. He scored two against | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
Argentina. He is running in behind and threatening. Yet an end | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
product, get a shot art. With Windows, it is about whether they | :13:27. | :13:32. | |
produce and he certainly has been. We see a lot of wide players playing | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
on the opposite flanks cutting in. It was his third game that he came | :13:39. | :13:48. | |
to life. If Nigeria play a little bit deeper and use the players they | :13:49. | :13:57. | |
have got on the counterattack he can be a major threat. He is quick, | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
Moses is quick and Odemwingie is quick. It is the first time two | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
African nations have made the last 16. Have Nigeria got what it takes | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
to become the fourth quarter finalists? It will be a big ask. If | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
they play to their strengths, which I think is counter attacking that | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
all, they will be in with a chance but they will have to play some | :14:25. | :14:25. | |
I think is counter attacking that all, they will good | :14:26. | :14:25. | |
I think is counter attacking that all, they will be foot ball. It | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
hasn't always been straight forward for France against African | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
opposition. There were beaten in 2002 by Senegal and then lost in | :14:35. | :14:44. | |
2010 to South Africa. There has been a sense of unity returned since both | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
those campaigns. He is a legend in France. France are | :14:49. | :15:04. | |
the champions of Euro 2000. I played with him, I know what he is like. He | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
was the type of guy that will make players lay better because he would | :15:10. | :15:28. | |
have done the dirty work. Automatically, when you have a | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
legend as a boss, automatically, you respect the guy. Didier Deschamps | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
has that, to make people play better. He has that, and you can see | :15:39. | :15:46. | |
the togetherness in the team. And they are performing. | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
Interesting point he makes about the fact that Didier Deschamps has done | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
it at the highest level, he has lifted the World Cup. Looking at | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
some of the managers that you have played for, they were not | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
necessarily like that, but were hugely successful. Fergie may beg to | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
differ. But people like Arsene Wenger, Gerard Houllier, Roy | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
Hodgson, so do you think it is an advantage being a great player? I | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
think it is when you first go in the door, you get that automatic respect | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
from the players. But then you have got to prove yourself and gain more | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
respect from the players, that you are knowledgeable, you can control a | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
group of guys who have got egos, and get them playing that way you want | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
them to play, and you have a philosophy which you are going to | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
abide by. So, you have got a lot to do once you have got in there. You | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
have worked with Gerard Houllier, Roy Hodgson, and Mark Hughes, who | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
was a top player, obviously, so how does it make you feel when you walk | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
into a dressing room? I agree with Rio. They have already got you | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
listening when you first walk in. With Mark Hughes, who had played at | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
all of those massive clubs. With Roy Hodgson, he had to earn the respect, | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
and it took him a couple of months before the lads were like, he knows | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
what he is doing. You have still got to be good at your job. Arsene | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
Wenger, when he came in, he looked like my geography teacher, with | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
those glasses on. But the message he gave us on the pitch, the belief he | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
gave us, it was fantastic. Did you take some convincing at the start? | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
At the start, but it was clear on the training pitch, that is where he | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
gave us the belief. The results were rolling into one. It is great to see | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
Didier Deschamps coming on and doing well, we want former players to do | :17:47. | :17:56. | |
well. France feature players from five of the top European leagues, | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
including ten out of the 23 from the Premier League. Let's hear from | :18:02. | :18:02. | |
three of them. COMMENTATOR: It would appear the | :18:03. | :18:15. | |
French are flying through to the last 16. As a kid, I was playing in | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
the street with my friends, in my garden. It is a phrase we used to | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
use, playing in the World Cup one day. To be able to do that, | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
especially in Brazil, it is amazing. Football is like a religion. | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
Everybody is supporting us in France, it is something special, it | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
is hard to describe. As a player, we just want to enjoy the moment and | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
give them the best possible. It will be difficult, if you lose, you go | :18:50. | :18:56. | |
home. Nigeria is a big team, they have a lot of quality. | :18:57. | :19:05. | |
It is not going to be easy, it is going to be a tricky game, and they | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
want to win as much as we want to win, so we have to do the maximum. | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
We have to focus on ourselves and give our self for the team. | :19:19. | :19:27. | |
This is the line-up Didier Deschamps has selected. | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
Evra and Debuchy return at full-back. Mamadou Sakho is | :19:36. | :19:46. | |
suffering from a knock. The front three is the same as the one which | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
was so devastating against the Swiss. One player that I think a lot | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
of us were looking forward to in this tournament, a young talent, is | :19:59. | :20:06. | |
Paul Popper, who you know well, Rio, from Manchester United? Yes, every | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
single member of the first team squad was in no doubt about how good | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
this kid could be, and it was a disappointment that he left. It was | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
definitely a mistake on behalf of Man United, because he told me | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
briefly before he left, I want to be the best player in the world. I do | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
not know if he will be that but he will definitely turn out to be the | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
best midfielder in the world. What was it that he was not happy with? I | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
think he did not play a particular game, and a few players were played | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
out of position in his position, and he felt disrespected, and then | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
agents and family members got involved. But it was quite clear to | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
all of you how good a player he washe was doing things in training, | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
it is beautiful, his touch is phenomenal. And he has got the eye | :20:56. | :21:04. | |
to get his shot off. He did that day in, day out, in training. He has got | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
the mix between the athleticism and the skill. And the RAM is a great | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
defender as well. This guy reads the game so well. I sit and watch this | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
guy with my son, I feel he is probably one of the best in the | :21:24. | :21:32. | |
world. He reads things very well, he has got international sprinting | :21:33. | :21:35. | |
ability. Here, he shows a bit of class, does not just kick it out. He | :21:36. | :21:42. | |
has got everything. Tidy with his feet, he can change direction | :21:43. | :21:47. | |
quickly. What I like about him as well, he does not necessarily want | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
to get in a fight with anyone, he just wants to nick the ball and get | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
the game going again. Sounds like someone sitting near me! To the left | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
or the right?! Left! Mourinho has said he thinks this is probably the | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
best young central defender in the game. The only thing is with his | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
youth, is he going to make a mistake? I do not like seeing | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
central defenders just rooting it into the crowd, but I do not like to | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
see them overplaying it, either. So, how do you see this going? I think | :22:29. | :22:38. | |
the French will have to much. In Benzema, they have got one of the | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
best number nines in world football. He is clinical, irresistible when he | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
is on his game. He could be one of the defining factors. Watching the | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
first match, he has dropped a lot of weight, he shop. Another expectant | :22:55. | :23:03. | |
crowd, they are really feeling these stadiums. I have been fortunate to | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
do five or six games, and the atmosphere has not let me down in | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
any of them. This is the best stadium I have been to, Gary, | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
Brasilia. They have literally dug out the bottom tier and the | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
angle... Is it finished?! Just about! But it makes for a fantastic | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
atmosphere. Let's join our commentary team of Kevin Kilbane and | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
Simon Brotherton. SIMON BROTHERTON: It seems to be a | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
feast or famine with France in recent times. Finalists in 2006, | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
home early four years ago, and now, a very promising start here in | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
Brazil. Eight goals in the first two games, and expectations soaring. | :23:52. | :24:06. | |
Nigeria have never made it through to the quarterfinals. | :24:07. | :24:18. | |
# Allons enfants de la Patrie Le jour de gloire est arrive | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
# Contre nous de la tyrannie, L'etendard sanglant est leve | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
# Entendez-vous dans les campagnes Mugir ces feroces soldats | :24:30. | :24:51. | |
# Aux armes, citoyens Formez vos bataillons | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
# Qu'un sang impur Abreuve nos sillons | :25:00. | :25:22. | |
The last five times the French have got out of the group stages, they | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
have reached at least the semifinals. | :25:28. | :25:44. | |
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF NIGERIA PLAYS. | :25:45. | :26:17. | |
Can Nigeria become only the fourth African team to reach the last | :26:18. | :26:24. | |
eight, following on from Ghana four years ago, Senegal in 2002 and | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
Cameroon back in 1990? Nigeria's preparations for the game have | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
included and meant over bonus payments which required the | :26:34. | :26:35. | |
intervention of | :26:36. | 0:19:40 |