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# Et j'entends dans la musique les cris, les rires | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
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France take on Portugal in the final. | :01:04. | :01:17. | |
It's the morning of the Euro 2016 final. I'm up, ready and buzzing. | :01:18. | :01:55. | |
Welcome to Paris for the final of Euro 2016. The whole of France has | :01:56. | :02:59. | |
come to a halt to cheer on its team against a Portugal side featuring | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
one of the greatest player of all time, Cristiano Ronaldo. France's | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
fifth major tournament final and their third on home soil after | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
winning the Euros in 1984 and the World Cup in 1998. Portugal have | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
only ever reached one final, losing to Greece in Euro 2004. 80,000 | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
people will pack out the Stade de France. Another 90,000 have gathered | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
in the fan park just outside our studio in the shadow of the Eiffel | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
Tower. It's quite a site out there right now. The sage -- the stage is | :03:35. | :03:41. | |
set. Alan Shearer, Rio Ferdinand and a man who won the World Cup and | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
European Championship with France, Thierry Henry. A total of 18 major | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
tournament appearances in the studio tonight. This must bring back a few | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
memories of your triumph here a few years ago. What does this mean to | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
France right now? We already talked about November and the terrorist | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
attacks, the disconnection with the fans and the team. For me, I want | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
them to experience winning a tournament of that magnitude at | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
home. I had the opportunity to win it away and at home. Not the Euros, | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
but the World Cup at home and the Euros away. When you win a | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
tournament at home, nothing beats that. Nothing in the world beats | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
that in terms of football. It brings everyone together, you can see how | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
everyone is happy, you can see the joy, the country were celebrating | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
for two or three months. It's amazing to see that. Believe me or | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
not, I never actually saw that like that. I never wanted to look at | :04:46. | :04:55. | |
them. Those guys right now are making me relive those moments. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
Thanks for that. Magical pictures of those scenes and it will be the same | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
tonight. So many people behind us, it's staggering. I'm not sure this | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
side is as good as 98, but they are in the final nevertheless. They've | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
been the most entertaining team. They've played six games so far and | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
in five of those they've scored two or more goals. They have entertained | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
us. Their big players have turned up and they Griezmann, Payet, Lloris is | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
top class and was in the semifinal. They've been the best team, they've | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
got the top goal-scorer and they deserve to be where they are. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Portugal are tough to beat, they are dog-eared and they have two former | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
team-mates of yours, Ronaldo and Nani. Ronaldo mention this is the | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
most dogged team and close-knit team he's been with and it's proven in | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
this tournament. It brings into question the format of this | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
tournament. They finished third in their group and hadn't won a game... | :05:57. | :06:04. | |
They won one game in 90 minutes. They've improved steadily, but they | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
are not pleasing on the eye. But when you have Ronaldo, you have a | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
chance and they know how to get through games. We aren't the only | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
ones who want a flutter on this game. There's been a moth | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
infestation at the Stade de France! They are all over the place. They | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
left the lights on last night and it's not been well received. | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
Thousands of the things. They are currently trying to do something | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
about it. They need footballs and mothballs this evening. Hopefully | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
they will have cleared them before they kicked off. Amazingly, France | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
have won their last ten games against Portugal, dating back 41 | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
years. This will be the fourth meeting between the teams at a major | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
tournament. The previous three were all semifinals and the French | :06:55. | :06:56. | |
triumphed on each occasion. Henry has won a penalty! The referee | :06:57. | :07:38. | |
pointing straight to the spot. Thierry Henry was fouled. Zidane | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
knows exactly what he's doing and he puts France ahead from the penalty | :07:47. | :07:55. | |
spot after 32 minutes. The team everybody wrote off after they won | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
the tournament in 1998 is certainly right back in business. | :08:01. | :08:13. | |
France haven't lost a Portugal for 25 years. | :08:14. | :08:22. | |
Nuno Gomes might not be tired now. Portugal have taken the lead! Nuno | :08:23. | :08:32. | |
Gomes again. Henry coming in fast side. Thierry Henry! Goal for | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
France! The equaliser. It looks to me as though it's a penalty. He | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
scores! France are in the final. Here in the sparkling Mediterranean | :08:47. | :09:14. | |
port of Marseille, the Stade Velodrome is packed with 55,000 | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
capacity. A superb setting for this European Championship semifinal. | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
It's a goal! The young left back has scored. Jordao! It's there! Jordao | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
for Portugal! They've equalised! Jordao is hanging at the back post. | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
It's there! Jordao again! Blading again. -- played in. A chance the | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
platter need and it's a goal for France. 2-2. Tigana. Tigana. Platter | :09:49. | :09:59. | |
need! Goal! -- Platini. Platter leave for France with a minute to | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
go. 3-2. I've not seen a match like this in years. The captain of France | :10:05. | :10:12. | |
receives the cup, the winner in the semifinal, a goal in the final. What | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
else can you do? I wonder what happened to Michel | :10:15. | :10:25. | |
Platini! The current French team are soaking up the atmosphere at the | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
Stade de France. It was the venue where France beat Brazil 3-0 in the | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
1998 World Cup final. No late dramas with the Portuguese Ronaldo tonight. | :10:36. | :10:41. | |
Let's take a look at how both teams line up. Portugal goalkeeper | :10:42. | :10:45. | |
Patricio has only conceded once in five knockout games at the European | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
Championship. Pepe returned in one of two changes. He missed the | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
semifinal with a five problem but replaces Alves. The other change | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
sees William Carvalho Ripley -- recalled with Danilo reduced the | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
bench. Sanches will be the youngest man to play in a European | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Championship final at 18, broken the record set by Ronaldo in 2004. | :11:10. | :11:23. | |
Ronaldo is now 31 and could become the oldest player to score in a | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
European Championship final. France are unchanged. Again captained by | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
Hugo Lloris. Sagna, Koscielny and Evra boast 177 caps between them, | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
but Umtiti is playing only his third international game. There's no | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
recall for can with Matuidi and Pogba the central midfielder 's. -- | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
Kante. Griezmann plays his 70th game of the season, which is more than | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
any other player in the top five European leagues. Giroud leads the | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
line and has ten goals in his last ten starts for France. | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
It's a big night for all the players, Rio, but a special I will | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
be on Paul Pogba, a player you know well from his youth at Manchester | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
United and may well return to Manchester United for a lot of | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
money. Potentially ?100 million, 22. Huge potential. The thing that stood | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
out for me when I first met him other than his ability was his | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
personality. He wants to be the best. He started very anxious, he | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
wanted to prove himself. He wanted to prove worthy of the hype. He's | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
grown into this tournament. He's overplaying here because he wants to | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
show people he's got the talent. Didier Deschamps has to take the | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
talent -- credit because he's putting in a deeper rule and you can | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
see his tools. Is got great range of passing. He looks more composed, | :12:46. | :12:54. | |
he's got more time in that position and he's really grown in stature in | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
this tournament and they rely on him in many areas. This is the icing on | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
the cake. Teasing the young full-back. Beautiful feet. Six foot | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
four, twinkle toes. He is the poster boy for this tournament. Griezmann | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
has become that as well, but there's a lot of pressure on his young | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
shoulders. Did you see that improvement in him from when he was | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
a kid at Man United? Undoubtedly. There was not one player in the | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
changing room who would have said no. Everybody knew him leaving was | :13:29. | :13:35. | |
huge. Is he world-class yet? He's on the way to be world-class, he's not | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
far. If we talk about the money, we all go well, but that's the price | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
now if you want a player like that. What I like about him is the sign of | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
intelligence when he knows what he has to do. When he plays for | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
Juventus he's a bit higher. He knows what he has to do for that team. | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
Holding perhaps isn't his forte, but he does it very well. 18-year-old | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
Renato Sanches looks a real prospect. I love him. Energy, going | :14:04. | :14:11. | |
forward, he controls the ball and he goes. That's what Portugal was | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
lacking at the start of the tournament. He brings energy, he | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
wants to go forward. He doesn't know what to do here, but he goes forward | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
with his run. When you have a player in your team playing like that, the | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
whole team goes forward with him. Look at this. He wants the ball, | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
he's asking for the ball. He plays it and he goes for it. Not sure | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
about the finish, but I'm sure about this finish! There was a little | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
deflection, but it doesn't matter. He wants to go forward. Even there, | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
you might say, stop running, what are you doing, but as a defender, | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
when you see the ball going all the way, it gives people a breather. | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
Ronaldo drags players to him, but this guy is dragging two or three | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
out. It leaves space for people like Nani and Ronaldo. I watched the | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
Wales game when he played. What impressed me most about him was in | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
the last five minutes when basically the game was won, he had the option | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
to Pastor Ronaldo and he didn't, he cut inside and went himself or stop | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
when the superstar is demanding the ball, that tells me a lot. I bet he | :15:25. | :15:26. | |
doesn't do it twice! Are you surprised that Kante isn't | :15:27. | :15:37. | |
in the starting line-up? Not really. They want to keep the momentum | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
going. I'm thinking about how Portugal is going to play, they are | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
going to counter. And that is Kante's game. We will see. But I | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
understand where Didier is coming from. I thought he might have had | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
him in there, once or twice against the Germans they got in their easy | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
and I thought he might have stiffened that up. The Stade de | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
France is filling up. 45 minutes until kick-off. We can go to the | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
side of the pitch to hear from Danny Murphy and Jason Mohammed. Well, | :16:10. | :16:18. | |
isn't this a truly magical year -- evening. The Portuguese fans came | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
into the stadium a full two hours before the players even arrived. | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
They are in fantastic voice. When you look at the occasion, | :16:28. | :16:35. | |
magnificent? I was lucky enough to be on the streets of Paris when they | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
were in the semifinal, and that was incredible. But this is incredible, | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
here and in the let outside the stadium. I haven't seen an | :16:44. | :16:45. | |
atmosphere like this for a long time. What impressed you most about | :16:46. | :16:52. | |
the semifinal against Germany? Their resilience, togetherness. They were | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
dominating for long periods, they showed a hunger and desire to get | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
the final. For me, they are favourites. Don't rule out the Magic | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
man. A relatively poor tournament until the semifinal, but that's what | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
he can do? The header was magical. What impressed me more was his | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
workrate. Two or three times in the second half he was running back and | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
winning the ball back for his team. I don't think we have said that too | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
many times about him. He wants to win it, he's got the hopes of a | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
nation on his shoulders. If anyone can, he can. Of course, if France | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
win, I have a feeling that the Arc de Triomphe and chanced -- will be | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
pretty full. The stadium might not be at full | :17:39. | :17:50. | |
capacity, but the fan zone is. Manish Bhasin is in the heart of it. | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
Welcome to the fan zone, 90,000 people have been crammed in here. | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
Most of them are French fans, watching the big game against | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
Portugal which will kick off in the next 45 minutes or so. This place | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
has been open for all, free entry since the start of the tournament. 1 | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
million people have passed through the gates to watch games on the big | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
screen, which measure about 400 square metres, the same size as a | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
basketball court. This place here is probably the same size as a team | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
football pitches. They are loving the BBC, as you can see. A perfect | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
French evening, no better place, if you are not in the stadium, to watch | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
the game. Battled on really well! I am not sure how money Portuguese | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
fans have made it in there. Only the most optimistic would have bet on | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
their team making the final after drawing the opening game with | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
Iceland. Portugal only qualified from a group as one of the best | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
third placed teams. The victory over Wales in the semifinal is the first | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
time they had won a game in the tournament in 90 minutes. They are | :18:59. | :19:00. | |
here, that is all matters. MUSIC: "Movin' On Up" | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
by Primal Scream. Zoltan Gera with the shot and | :19:04. | :19:05. | |
the goal! Comes to Cristiano | :19:06. | :19:39. | |
Ronaldo! He surely has won this | :19:40. | :19:51. | |
match for Portugal. Lewandowski's scored | :19:52. | :20:37. | |
inside two minutes! And Portugal have done it, | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
they're through to the semifinal! It's a Portugal side that hasn't | :20:42. | :20:53. | |
been beaten in the tournament, yet hasn't actually won | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
a game in 90 minutes. Here's Ronaldo once again and it's | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
in by Nani. Maybe this is their, and their crown | :21:01. | :21:13. | |
prince Cristiano's year. Unbeaten in 13 competitive matches | :21:14. | :21:33. | |
under Fernando Santos, who calls his own team the ugly ducklings. I'm not | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
sure Ronaldo would appreciate that, but you know what he means? They are | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
gritty? Yes, it is hard to eulogise over them, but they are functional | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
and efficient. They work hard and get men behind the ball, they make | :21:49. | :21:53. | |
it difficult for opposing teams. The back four, four or five in midfield, | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
and Ronaldo, everybody behind the ball, sitting deep. Ronaldo does his | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
fair share of work, also. He is the first point of contact, closing | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
everyone down. This is in the Wales game. Very similar to what we just | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
saw. Men behind the ball again, trying to keep it tight, trying to | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
keep it compact. Danny mentioned about Ronaldo, tracking back. He | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
worked his socks off in this game. There were quite content to let | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
Wales have the ball and tried to spray it around as much as they can. | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
But when it goes into the midfield, they cannot allow this to happen | :22:34. | :22:36. | |
tonight. They can't allow that space, like they have done. They | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
will get punished, whether it is Griezmann, Pogba, Payet. They all | :22:42. | :22:47. | |
know their jobs. They are good at it. Not great to watch, not | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
entertaining. But when you play like that, in the hope that something | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
magical comes from their superstar, like the header from Ronaldo, that | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
is what they rely on. We all know about Ronaldo, but there was another | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
player, quite an enigmatic soul, Nani. Has bags of ability, but | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
sometimes disappoints? He has cut a frustrating figure at times of | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
Manchester United. But in terms of natural ability, this kit has it | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
all. Left and right feet, pace to die for, and his brave. He wants the | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
ball. He has had a good few chances to score goals. He could have been | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
one of the top goal-scorers. He is somebody who, if he got it all | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
together, he would be one of the best players on the part. Why | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
doesn't he? I think he is getting information and digesting it, then | :23:38. | :23:39. | |
decision-making in the final moments. The last part of a game | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
wore on the pitch, decision-making is what separates the best players | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
from the players that are good. In this tournament, he has been one of | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
their best attacking players, because he has created chances, he | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
is on the end of things and he is always around it causing havoc. He's | :23:55. | :23:59. | |
playing as a striker, not his normal position, and that shows a level of | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
intelligence. Thierry, going from a wide player to a striker, is there a | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
big difference? It is hard, in terms of movement. But what you see any | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
images that we saw is desire to score a goal. It doesn't matter | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
where you are, you are in the box, there or about, the that is the most | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
important thing. That is what I'm worried about, the Portuguese team, | :24:31. | :24:35. | |
they always have guys in the box. Let's go back to the Stade de | :24:36. | :24:38. | |
France, where we can hear from another man who knows exactly what | :24:39. | :24:40. | |
the French players are feeling, World Cup and European champion | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
winner Robert Peres. He spoke to Jason a short while ago. This is | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
what they are playing for, I'm joined by a man who knows what it is | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
like to win this trophy. It was his cross for Trezeguet. Does he thank | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
you every day for that cross? Yes, a very good gift for him. It was in | :25:04. | :25:13. | |
2000, good memory against Italy. Yes, I'm very happy to be here, | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
because in 2000, we lifted this trophy with Didier Deschamps. How | :25:20. | :25:29. | |
does this side comply Burleigh compared to that one? It's difficult | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
to compare when he was a player, now he's a manager. Since two years ago, | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
he is doing well. The team is very good, very compact. He built | :25:41. | :25:49. | |
something. I think he is... Yes, it is good for them to lift this trophy | :25:50. | :25:57. | |
tonight. I wish for my country. Your dad is Portuguese, your mother is | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
Spanish, who is your dad cheering for? Yes, for sure, actually, he is | :26:02. | :26:07. | |
in Portugal. So, it's normal, he supports Portugal. But I call him | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
one hour ago, so he is very excited and has a lot of stress. Very good | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
to see you. Whether France win the trophy or not, the one thing we can | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
agree on is that they have been incredible hosts. | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
They certainly have, the trophy should be in safe hands with | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
goalkeeper Hugo Lloris if they win. He has overtaken Didier Deschamps's | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
record for appearances as a captain in this tournament and he is seen as | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
a real leader in his country. Point-blank reactions to bus stop! | :26:41. | :27:21. | |
-- super stop! Didier Deschamps was a tiny giant of | :27:22. | :27:47. | |
a player, and he's trying to achieve something enormous. | :27:48. | :28:23. | |
How about these four scenes in the Fan Park? They are all getting very | :28:24. | :28:29. | |
excited. Lord knows what they will be like if they actually win the | :28:30. | :28:33. | |
thing! I think we could be stuck here for a long time. It will be | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
quite a party, so we'll join in. Talking about Hugo Lloris, he's been | :28:38. | :28:44. | |
terrific, a top class goalkeeper? A top-class goalkeeper, you can't win | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
a tournament without a good goalkeeper. What I like about him is | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
his positioning. He is always on the right place at the right time. You | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
know, 58 times captain for France. It's unbelievable. He is doing it | :28:58. | :29:05. | |
ever so well. That is a world-class save. Same here. I thought that was | :29:06. | :29:14. | |
a goal, on the night. He kept that out. Just a great guy. There is | :29:15. | :29:19. | |
something I like about him, his calmness, he is very calm. He | :29:20. | :29:23. | |
doesn't panic, therefore he doesn't make anyone panic. We talked about | :29:24. | :29:36. | |
David De Gea and Manuel Neuer, I think he has been the keeper of the | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
tournament? Something I want to talk about here, a great save, mistake | :29:41. | :29:45. | |
from the back four, Sagna, as you can see. But he got up and he was | :29:46. | :29:49. | |
trying to be positive. Guys, it's OK, come on, next one, let's do it. | :29:50. | :29:59. | |
Route that calmness spreads to the team. I've played with goalkeeper is | :30:00. | :30:02. | |
that are a bit all over the place and they instil panic. Name names! | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
Like Edwin van der Sar. Somebody like that, David De Gea, when he got | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
going, you look back and it is just an assuredness that transpires to | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
the team and it enables you to go out and perform. Nose we saw | :30:18. | :30:24. | |
terrific saves. What we didn't see, right through the second half, when | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
they were under the cosh, under pressure, the number of times he | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
came for crosses to take pressure off his defenders. Also, he's a very | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
good footballer. For a goalkeeper, you have to be. Modern day | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
goalkeeper, you have to be good with your feet. Look at a young kids, the | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
first question is if they are good with their feet. Here's a calm | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
leader. In this kind of game, especially tonight, you need | :30:52. | :30:51. | |
calmness. If Lloris does lift the trophy, | :30:52. | :31:00. | |
he'll follow in the footsteps of Didier Deschamps, who captained | :31:01. | :31:04. | |
France to victory in the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000. Since taking over | :31:05. | :31:09. | |
from Laurent Blanc in 2012 he's helped bring unity to a squad riven | :31:10. | :31:14. | |
by years of dressing room unrest. Still only 47, he is bidding to | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
become only the second man after Germany's Berti Vogts to win the | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
European Championships as a player and manager. | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
The story of modern French football is very much the story of one man. | :31:27. | :31:35. | |
Didier Deschamps is already the most titled football man in France. He | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
has the spirit of the winner. He's a lucky charm for all French people he | :31:41. | :31:46. | |
won the first Champions League a French club has won with Marseille | :31:47. | :31:51. | |
in 1993, a successful international career, then a manager. I'm with him | :31:52. | :31:58. | |
since I'm 14 years old in not. We started together, he is assessed | :31:59. | :32:07. | |
about the game. He was captain of Nantes at 20, but it already injured | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
more than most. A year before his older brother was killed in a plane | :32:12. | :32:13. | |
crash. Deschamps commanded the respect of | :32:14. | :32:28. | |
many, but not all. Eric Cantona called him a water carrier, a | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
domestique, somebody to fetch and carry for the stars, but while | :32:34. | :32:38. | |
France shunned Cantona, they turned to the Holborn -- humble technician | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
to just make it all work. People were always laughing at him because | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
he wasn't the most skilful, but he was skilful upstairs. The best skill | :32:48. | :32:54. | |
you can have is your brain. We had a crazy generation in terms of | :32:55. | :32:58. | |
competitiveness, but he's just a freak. He changes people's | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
mentality. Wherever he goes, he wins. | :33:03. | :33:15. | |
He adjusted the team first during the group stage around Pogba, then | :33:16. | :33:22. | |
he changed his mind and replaced Griezmann but hide Giroud and then | :33:23. | :33:25. | |
picked all the players around Griezmann. I guess he had the luck, | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
but he has the skills as well. The harder he tries the luckier he gets? | :33:31. | :33:35. | |
One thing is for sure, this job has been toiled since day one. That | :33:36. | :33:40. | |
shameful World Cup in world that bad rapper -- Southern Africa when the | :33:41. | :33:46. | |
players went on strike. French football was in ruins. There was no | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
love between the fans and the national team. He had to bring back | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
discipline and an aesthetic and he did that in four years. 2014 was | :33:55. | :33:59. | |
good, we knew that was a rehearsal for the Euros at home. And just | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
before showtime, another hitch. A refusal to pick Guarente Benzema, a | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
man under investigation for the blackmail of a team-mate, led to | :34:09. | :34:15. | |
Cantona coming back into the fray, alleging Deschamps didn't pick | :34:16. | :34:19. | |
players because of their race. He decided it was too risky. It doesn't | :34:20. | :34:24. | |
have any sense about what Cantona was saying about it being racist. | :34:25. | :34:30. | |
France is facing a problem, socially, the security level. We | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
need football. We need football to be there for us, to enjoy, to have | :34:35. | :34:38. | |
hope. He's managed to gather everyone around the team and behind | :34:39. | :34:46. | |
him. We saw you speaking, teary, you know Didier Deschamps well. | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
Ruthless, brave, tactical. -- Thierry. He's intelligent. He wasn't | :34:51. | :34:57. | |
the most gifted, but he didn't care about that. He was going to beat | :34:58. | :35:01. | |
you. He did it as a player and a coach. Talking about cohesion coming | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
back with the fans after what happened in 2010, it started with | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
the French Federation and Laurent Blanc. Didier with his results at | :35:12. | :35:16. | |
the moment elevated it to another level. I saw Frank Leboeuf talking | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
about luck, it's nothing to do with luck. He made a mistake in a couple | :35:21. | :35:24. | |
of games by choosing the wrong tactic in the first half, but he was | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
man enough to put his hand up, not like some managers who will change | :35:29. | :35:32. | |
sometimes when it's too late in the game. He changed it at half-time. He | :35:33. | :35:41. | |
wasn't scared but Pogba and Griezmann on the bench. He's not | :35:42. | :35:43. | |
scared to put Kante on the bench. That's nothing to do with luck, its | :35:44. | :35:46. | |
intelligence and looking at what the team can bring. You have to give him | :35:47. | :35:49. | |
a lot of credit. When you work well, it pays. What's he like as a man? | :35:50. | :35:56. | |
You know him well as a human being. What you see is what you get. He'll | :35:57. | :36:01. | |
talk to you and you like it or you don't, that's your problem. The team | :36:02. | :36:05. | |
has to win, it's not about you or him. Go out and win. That's | :36:06. | :36:10. | |
reflected in the way the players react when he makes decisions. The | :36:11. | :36:14. | |
big players don't throw their arms around, there's no individual | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
rebellion. They come off the pitch because they know what they are | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
doing -- he is doing is for the betterment of the team. He's created | :36:24. | :36:27. | |
a tremendous team spirit. A couple of months before the tournament when | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
it was announced that Benzema and Valbuena wouldn't be playing forward | :36:33. | :36:39. | |
ever reason, Aranda was suspended -- Varane was out, Ribery... He | :36:40. | :36:45. | |
deserves tremendous credit. Every decision he is made in this | :36:46. | :36:49. | |
tournament has worked so well for him. Overall he's got things right | :36:50. | :36:55. | |
even if it's taking him time in matches. It also comes when you're | :36:56. | :36:59. | |
doing well, when you're getting results and late goals. We talked | :37:00. | :37:05. | |
about it at the very beginning. Where were they in terms of | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
competition? They had no point of reference. No qualifiers. You have | :37:12. | :37:18. | |
to try stuff in the tournament. He tried Pogba on the right, Pogba in | :37:19. | :37:24. | |
behind, Payet in behind. Then he found something that worked and now | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
he's going with it. You have to give him credit, it's not easy to listen | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
to what people are saying all the time. To keep the cohesion and still | :37:33. | :37:39. | |
go forward... Defensively also. The one question about France was | :37:40. | :37:42. | |
whether they could cope to fans of league, like England. They've | :37:43. | :37:46. | |
answered that and he's got them well organised. Let's go back to the | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
stadium. Portugal have played the most games in the history of the | :37:51. | :37:54. | |
European Championships without ever winning the tournament, 34 in total. | :37:55. | :37:59. | |
One man who featured in a few of those was Deco and he's with Jason. | :38:00. | :38:06. | |
Deco joins me. How proud are you to see not only the fancier, but this | :38:07. | :38:12. | |
fantastic Portugal side in the final? -- the fans here. I'm very | :38:13. | :38:16. | |
proud of this team, they've done very good, they deserve to be in | :38:17. | :38:21. | |
this final. They are good young talents with a mix of experience. | :38:22. | :38:28. | |
They deserve to be here. You really mean they deserve to be here? They | :38:29. | :38:33. | |
didn't win a group match, but they performed in the semifinal. When you | :38:34. | :38:36. | |
have somebody like Ronaldo in your side, that's what you want from your | :38:37. | :38:43. | |
main man. The first phase of the group was difficult for every team. | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
Portugal qualified, but after they qualified they started to play well. | :38:49. | :38:51. | |
The game against Wales was fantastic. They are prepared | :38:52. | :38:59. | |
tonight. You said to me it's a Portugal win, 2-0. Excuse the moths! | :39:00. | :39:05. | |
Is tonight going to be Ronaldo's night? I think so. He's strong, he's | :39:06. | :39:11. | |
prepared. He deserves to win something with the national team. | :39:12. | :39:20. | |
Tonight will be his day. This man is very, very confident. | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
Some of those moths were bigger than Deco! Varies Ronaldo. Three Ballon | :39:25. | :39:29. | |
d'Ors to his name, three Champions League wins with Manchester United | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
and Real Madrid. Now he has the chance to achieve something that's | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
even beyond his archrival, Lionel Messi, and claim a major prize on | :39:38. | :39:39. | |
the international stage. This is the Paris Madeira, but Judy | :39:40. | :40:04. | |
's oasis in the bustling metropolis. In the 1950s and 60s, thousands | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
travelled from Portugal to France seeking refuge from the | :40:10. | :40:13. | |
authoritarian -- or for you terry and regime of the dictator. Today | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
the Portuguese make up the nation 's second largest immigrant population. | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
Almost 20 years ago Cristiano Ronaldo embarked upon his own | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
journey, from Lisbon to Manchester to Madrid. The boy from Madeira with | :40:28. | :40:33. | |
magic in his boots and a burning desire to be the greatest. The man | :40:34. | :40:41. | |
who would be King. Whilst the honours at club level flooded in and | :40:42. | :40:46. | |
personal accolades stacked up, glory on the international stage remained | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
elusive. A catalogue of bright sparks. Extinguished by crushing | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
failure. At Euro 2016, Ronaldo's start was | :40:56. | :41:10. | |
inauspicious. Frustration on the field, hubris of it. This is a small | :41:11. | :41:16. | |
mentality, this is why they'll do nothing. The pantomime villain | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
fulfilling his role. Fingers pointing, scrutiny, the pressure | :41:22. | :41:24. | |
began to build. But Jeopardy calls for big players to step up, and step | :41:25. | :41:32. | |
up he did. A chance for Cristiano Ronaldo! Absolutely brilliant. His | :41:33. | :41:38. | |
will to win, relentless, enforced upon those around him. And as he | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
dragged Portugal into the quarterfinals, an ocean away, his | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
nemesis called it quits. Lionel Messi has announced he's retiring | :41:50. | :41:52. | |
from international football. The chance now to usurp his archrival | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
and imprint his name on a international tournament. The artist | :41:57. | :42:04. | |
needed to find his feet, to perform, to inspire, to lead. | :42:05. | :42:15. | |
And Portugal have done it on penalty kicks! The semifinal brought a | :42:16. | :42:23. | |
galactic showdown. Could the dragon kill the King? Ronaldo has met it, | :42:24. | :42:30. | |
what a leap. Not this time. And so to Paris and a meeting with the host | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
nation with their own demons to slay. The Portuguese will flood the | :42:35. | :42:39. | |
capital once again, this time seeking victory not refuge. It's | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
something I aways dream .com to win something important for the Portugal | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
national team. I believe and my colleagues believe, all Portugal | :42:51. | :42:53. | |
believes, and the immigrants in France believe, I think it's going | :42:54. | :42:57. | |
to be the first time Portugal will win an important trophy. | :42:58. | :43:13. | |
One goal tonight would see Ronaldo overtake Michel Platini as the | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
all-time leading scorer in the Euros. Some decent names on that | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
list. Some less decent. Just kidding. Ronaldo is a phenomenon. | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
Breathtakingly brilliant footballer. Wonderful goal-scorer. And a leader. | :43:30. | :43:35. | |
That's one of the impressive things about him in this tournament. | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
Working hard as well, which is something you wouldn't associate | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
with him. Didn't score in his first too -- two group games, but when his | :43:46. | :43:49. | |
country needed him most, he answered it. That is just world-class, you | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
can't teach that. Absolutely brilliant. The run to get in there | :43:55. | :43:59. | |
was also phenomenal. Good ball in, brilliant header. He is so, so | :44:00. | :44:06. | |
powerful in the air. The power, the direction. I can't tell you how | :44:07. | :44:10. | |
difficult this is, to get up there, to tie it, to stay up there and the | :44:11. | :44:15. | |
power of the header. Absolutely phenomenal. He's an interesting | :44:16. | :44:22. | |
personality as well. He obviously has a huge ego, we know that, as any | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
great sportsman would, a few histrionics at times, Rio. He does. | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
I wouldn't accept this in my changing room when I was playing. | :44:32. | :44:38. | |
Rating players in front everybody. -- their rating. Their players | :44:39. | :44:42. | |
believe in him and understand he will get them where they need to go. | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
He's a team man. In the changing room, he's involved in all the | :44:48. | :44:50. | |
banter, anything going on for the betterment of the team within the | :44:51. | :44:54. | |
changing room. People think he's egotistical. This is great. Come and | :44:55. | :45:00. | |
take a penalty. It's only a penalty. It's in God 's hands. That's a | :45:01. | :45:05. | |
leader. You could see that as a young kid because he's got a desire | :45:06. | :45:08. | |
and he's hungry to please everyone in Portugal and deliver this trophy. | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
It's one thing getting to the top and another staying. His attitude, | :45:14. | :45:18. | |
his desire to stay there is brilliant. | :45:19. | :45:24. | |
He mentioned Portuguese immigrants in France. You were telling us about | :45:25. | :45:31. | |
that earlier? We all have a Portuguese friend, we all know | :45:32. | :45:34. | |
somebody Portuguese in France. For them to win it here, their first | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
trophy here in France, almost like winning it at home for them. History | :45:39. | :45:44. | |
is so big between Portugal and France, on and off the field. It is | :45:45. | :45:49. | |
just unbelievable. It is one of the first times you will hear somebody | :45:50. | :45:53. | |
saying, in his interview, immigrants in France believe in it, too. He has | :45:54. | :46:04. | |
taken goal-scoring to a new level. Ronaldo, 30 goals a season, the best | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
players to be seen. If Ronaldo or Messi scored 30 goals this season, | :46:10. | :46:15. | |
it would be a disgraceful season! 548 goals, not bad? Portuguese hopes | :46:16. | :46:22. | |
rest on Ronaldo, Griezmann is the man that France will look to for | :46:23. | :46:27. | |
inspiration. Is the top scorer in the tournament, with six goals, | :46:28. | :46:31. | |
three ahead of his rivals. It is he, more than anyone else, who has | :46:32. | :46:34. | |
helped his team progressed to the final. Haven't the French crowd, or, | :46:35. | :46:40. | |
as they say out here, La Foule, enjoyed the ride? | :46:41. | :46:56. | |
# Je revois la ville en fete et en delire | :46:57. | :46:58. | |
# Suffoquant sous le soleil et sous la joie | :46:59. | :47:01. | |
# Et j'entends dans la musique les cris, les rires | :47:02. | :47:04. | |
# Qui eclatent et rebondissent autour de moi | :47:05. | :47:07. | |
# Emportes par la foule qui nous traine | :47:08. | :47:15. | |
# Emportes par la foule qui nous traine | :47:16. | :47:21. | |
Germany face France, a fixture so fixed in the French psyche that they | :47:22. | :48:08. | |
are calling it their Everest. # Emportes par la | :48:09. | :48:22. | |
foule qui nous traine # Emportes par la | :48:23. | :48:24. | |
foule qui nous traine # Emportes par la | :48:25. | :48:34. | |
foule qui nous traine # Emportes par la | :48:35. | :48:41. | |
foule qui nous traine We have enjoyed hearing that song | :48:42. | :49:04. | |
over the last few weeks. This is part of the closing ceremony that is | :49:05. | :49:09. | |
currently taking place inside the Stade de France, as we lead up to | :49:10. | :49:16. | |
the kick-off. Two sides playing for that trophy. Well, not the one in | :49:17. | :49:21. | |
the middle of the pitch! We saw Antoine Griezmann, star of the | :49:22. | :49:24. | |
tournament? Player of the tournament, without a doubt, unless | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
Ronaldo scores three or four today. He has been brilliant. He was the | :49:31. | :49:33. | |
guy that his team looked to to produce the goods. Like Portugal, | :49:34. | :49:43. | |
Ronaldo, like Germany and Muller, for the size of him, very good in | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
the air. If you get balls in like that, three, which you can't afford | :49:49. | :49:51. | |
to give him that amount of space, he proved that. He is such a clever | :49:52. | :49:57. | |
player, intelligent, his linkup play with Giroud has been superb. A bit | :49:58. | :50:05. | |
of luck with the finish, but who cares? Understanding of the game, | :50:06. | :50:09. | |
he's got pace, what about that for a finish? Such a clever finish. So | :50:10. | :50:14. | |
intelligent. What I like about him is that he involved himself in the | :50:15. | :50:19. | |
game, comes the band plays. When the ball does come into the boss, as | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
Alan said, he is potent, he finishes. He has had 70 odd games, | :50:24. | :50:30. | |
how is he still running? A real Number 10? Something that is really | :50:31. | :50:34. | |
difficult to do, 70th game tonight and he is running like a lunatic. To | :50:35. | :50:39. | |
be able to play, still at that quality, at that level now, at the | :50:40. | :50:44. | |
end of the season, after a long season, especially the way that | :50:45. | :50:47. | |
Atletico Madrid plays, always on counter, he has to go up and down | :50:48. | :50:50. | |
all the time and he is still performing. Wow. Well done. It | :50:51. | :51:00. | |
interesting, Thierry, we have seen some bogeys laid to rest, France | :51:01. | :51:09. | |
finally beat Germany, Iceland finally beat England. Portugal have | :51:10. | :51:16. | |
never beaten France in a major tournament, I don't want to worry | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
you! Listen, I just hope we keep that run going and we can carry on | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
beating the Portuguese. If not, it's a great tournament, happiness, but | :51:27. | :51:32. | |
you still have to win it, because you want to make history. It's | :51:33. | :51:35. | |
always about making history at the end of the day. I know they brought | :51:36. | :51:39. | |
happiness back, that cohesion is back, Griezmann had a great | :51:40. | :51:42. | |
tournament, but you need to win it at the very end of the day. The | :51:43. | :51:47. | |
final is the most important of all. Portugal, you have to be patient | :51:48. | :51:51. | |
against them? Yes, they are resolute. They understand how to | :51:52. | :51:56. | |
defend, were to be on the pitch. Especially as a defender, when you | :51:57. | :51:59. | |
know you have a weapon like Cristiano and Nani, you can change | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
games, Sanches, they can change games, and brings a unity when you | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
defend. Listen, we keep a clean sheet, these guys will open up and | :52:08. | :52:13. | |
can get our hands on the trophy. It's mouthwatering to see what can | :52:14. | :52:17. | |
happen. France have that many more weapons in this game, and I think | :52:18. | :52:26. | |
that could prove decisive. In turns Portugal, important to get payback? | :52:27. | :52:30. | |
He gives a bit more solidity at back. Pepe is a big game player, no | :52:31. | :52:41. | |
surprise he is back in the team. I think France will have too much for | :52:42. | :52:48. | |
them. Griezmann, Payet, who knows, Pogba also. Giroud has had a good | :52:49. | :52:56. | |
tournament. What worries you, Thierry Cristiano Ronaldo. I was | :52:57. | :53:08. | |
saying, listen, when I was a player, I needed to get rid into the game. | :53:09. | :53:13. | |
You guys, it was kind of difference. Even if you were not touching the | :53:14. | :53:16. | |
ball, you still had your head in the game, saying, I might get one. If I | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
wasn't getting into the game, touching the ball, moving, I was | :53:21. | :53:24. | |
thinking, I need to get into the game. That guy can miss 20,000 | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
controls, he can miss how many opportunities, and you still think | :53:30. | :53:34. | |
he is going to score the winner. That is what worries me. Sometimes | :53:35. | :53:37. | |
you can see somebody is not in the game. At that guy is always in the | :53:38. | :53:42. | |
game, somehow. 44 free kick saw something now? 43 and he hasn't | :53:43. | :53:51. | |
scored? Wouldn't that be typical? That is a mentality thing. We keep | :53:52. | :53:56. | |
using the word desire, his mentality is geared to winning games, winning | :53:57. | :54:01. | |
football matches. Ultimately, do it himself, almost. He wants to be the | :54:02. | :54:04. | |
person getting them over the line with a goal. The Portuguese team are | :54:05. | :54:08. | |
set up for that. Two teams in the tunnel, which will be triumphant? | :54:09. | :54:16. | |
France, for me, 2-1. France, I wanted and I don't care how they | :54:17. | :54:20. | |
win! I backed France at the beginning, I'm going to go with | :54:21. | :54:24. | |
them. It calls for people keeping their emotions intact. Whoever does | :54:25. | :54:28. | |
that and has Carmen is on the night will win the game. It's time. He | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
knows it. The final of Euro 20s at the. The host nation, France, take | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
on Portugal at the Stade de France. Commentators are Danny Murphy and | :54:39. | :54:39. | |
Guy Mowbray. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to | :54:40. | :54:49. | |
the end of the month long party. A few gate-crashers threatened to | :54:50. | :54:52. | |
spoil it early on, but it has grown into a real festival of friendship, | :54:53. | :54:56. | |
even if not all of the football has been sparkling. Hopefully tonight we | :54:57. | :55:01. | |
will see a finish with a flourish. Echoes of 1998, France in the final | :55:02. | :55:07. | |
at the Stade de France, featuring a team of Portuguese speakers whose | :55:08. | :55:13. | |
star is Ronaldo. 80 years ago, the original Ronaldo seemed elsewhere in | :55:14. | :55:16. | |
thought and deed and did not shine. It is hard to envisage that | :55:17. | :55:20. | |
happening with this one. -- 18 years. If you see him as show man or | :55:21. | :55:25. | |
show off, here's the best and biggest threat to France not making | :55:26. | :55:30. | |
it a hat-trick of tournament wins as hosts. The first thing they are | :55:31. | :55:32. | |
bound to win is the singing. # Herois do mar, nobre povo | :55:33. | :55:43. | |
Nacao valente, imortal # Levantai hoje de novo | :55:44. | :55:46. | |
O esplendor de Portugal # Entre as brumas da memoria | :55:47. | :55:54. | |
O Patria, sente-se a voz # Dos teus egregios avos | :55:55. | :56:02. | |
Que ha-de guiar-te a vitoria # As armas, as armas | :56:03. | :56:11. | |
Sobre a terra, sobre o mar, # As armas, as armas | :56:12. | :56:19. | |
Pela Patria lutar # Contra os canhoes, marchar, | :56:20. | :56:29. | |
marchar. # Ladies and gentlemen, please remain | :56:30. | :56:48. | |
standing for the national anthem of France. | :56:49. | :56:51. | |
# Allons enfants de la Patrie Le jour de gloire est arrive | :56:52. | :56:56. | |
# Contre nous de la tyrannie, L'etendard sanglant est leve | :56:57. | :57:04. | |
# Entendez-vous dans les campagnes Mugir ces feroces soldats | :57:05. | :57:17. | |
# Aux armes, citoyens Formez vos bataillons | :57:18. | :57:25. | |
# Qu'un sang impur Abreuve nos sillons | :57:26. | :57:32. | |
# Conduis, soutiens nos bras vengeurs Liberte, Liberte cherie | :57:33. | :57:50. | |
# Combats avec tes defenseurs Combats avec tes defenseurs | :57:51. | :57:52. | |
# Sous nos drapeaux que la victoire Accoure a tes males accents | :57:53. | :57:55. | |
# Que tes ennemis expirants Voient ton triomphe et notre gloire | :57:56. | :57:57. | |
# Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras Egorger vos fils et vos compagnes. # | :57:58. | :58:01. | |
Not a bad way to get the juices flowing for one of the biggest | :58:02. | :58:03. | |
sporting events around. Let's take a look at the teams. | :58:04. | :58:18. | |
Portugal, with the excellent Rui Patricio, and Pepe fit again to | :58:19. | :58:25. | |
replace Alves at the back. Carvalho returns from suspension. Adrien | :58:26. | :58:31. | |
Silva is another to be born in France with a Portuguese dad. Then | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
the main two... Well, one! His great rival, Lionel Messi, has found | :58:37. | :58:45. | |
international glory, beyond him. This might be Cristiano Ronaldo's | :58:46. | :58:51. | |
last big chance. There has not been a hat-trick scored at the | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
tournament, but Mark Clattenburg completes one other kind. He has | :58:57. | :58:59. | |
refereed the finals the FA Cup, Champions League and European | :59:00. | :59:05. | |
Championships in the same year. A testimony to the standard of those | :59:06. | :59:10. | |
in the Premier League who we are perhaps too quick to criticise. | :59:11. | :59:19. | |
If France win, Hugo Lloris will be the third successive goalkeeper | :59:20. | :59:36. | |
captain to lift the trophy. Although ruck can't get a game, Sissoko can. | :59:37. | :59:42. | |
Excellent against Germany, that nobody shone brighter than Antoine | :59:43. | :59:45. | |
Griezmann, who came close to playing for Portugal, his grandfather's | :59:46. | :59:52. | |
country. One way or another, a number seven is likely to have a big | :59:53. | :59:54. | |
impact on how tonight turns out. his desire to stay there is | :59:55. | :59:57. | |
brilliant. A full complement of substitutes for | :59:58. | :00:09. | |
the coaches after no more injury concerns. | :00:10. | :00:23. | |
There will be the countdown to kick off we've got used to throughout the | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
tournament. Start from ten shortly and then Mark Clattenburg can get | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
ready for the biggest moment of his career so far. He'll be hoping for a | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
quiet night. We're hoping for anything but. | :00:42. | :00:52. | |
It is the 15th European Championship final. France are in their third, | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
they've won the other two. For Portugal it's a second and their | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
mission is to do to France what Greece did to them 12 years ago. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
Beat the hosts, spoil the party. They'll have to be more composed | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
with their passing at the back than that. In nervous first touch from | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
Jose Fonte. It was indeed. I've got to mention the atmosphere in this | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
stadium, it's absolutely incredible. I've watched many big games and been | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
involved in many and I can't remember one where the atmosphere | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
has been like this. There really is a electricity about this place. | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
Patrice Evra throws the ball to Olivier Giroud. Payet caught by | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
Nani. Nani instantly looked for Ronaldo. He's being watched closely | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
by Bakary Sako you. -- Bacary Sagna. A little notch -- nudge from Renato | :01:51. | :02:10. | |
Sanches, but the referee was there to rule nothing untoward about that. | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
The jeers are music to Ronaldo's in years already. Two sloppy passes | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
early on. Carvalho this time, a little bit of nerves. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Understandable. Fernando Santos rarely shows any nerves, any kind of | :02:28. | :02:36. | |
emotion at all. He's delighted in some of the criticism his team have | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
taken for being too defensive. They are having to be here. Behind | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
Griezmann, but here's Payet. Headed clear by Fonte. | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
Nani is rudely barged off the ball by Pogba. Portugal are quick to | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
regain possession, not that Renato Sanches can keep that one in. A | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
little bit frantic on either side. Good defensive play by Pogba, he did | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
the hard work by winning the ball back, then he tried to trick and | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
gave it back to Portugal. The French look to be on the front foot. | :03:21. | :03:29. | |
Sissoko settles for the throne. A remarkable turnaround in his life | :03:30. | :03:40. | |
over the last few weeks. In the Newcastle United team that went down | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
and he might be European champion by the end of tonight. | :03:43. | :03:53. | |
Griezmann couldn't poke it out to Sissoko. Griezmann is a worker. | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
What's blatantly obvious is that Portugal will drop off like we saw | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
them do in the first half against Wales, give up some possession and | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
try to counter. It's what we expected. | :04:10. | :04:22. | |
Paper -- Pepe didn't get much on that, but just enough and it lands | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
in a safe place. Pepe Mel the semifinal against Wales with a thigh | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
strain. If he was fit he was always going to come back into the side | :04:34. | :04:38. | |
even though Bruno Alves had a good game. He's got big-game experience, | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
he's played in all the big finals for Madrid, this won't faze him, | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
he's crucial to their back four tonight. Nani has controlled it... | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
He will feel that's an opportunity gone. Lovely first touch, just | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
couldn't settle himself down for the blast past Lloris. It's a good run | :04:59. | :05:04. | |
from Nani. Gets in behind, tried to take it early. Decent effort. He's | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
had more than a decent tournament. Back in the big leagues, with | :05:11. | :05:23. | |
respect to the Turkish top flight. He's left Fenerbahce and will start | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
the season at Valencia. A good move for him. Seems hungry and fit in his | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
new role. We used to seeing him in wider areas, but he's played well in | :05:34. | :05:34. | |
this tournament. Trying to find a little gap to find | :05:35. | :06:03. | |
Griezmann. Pepe and Cedric tried to get it away. It reached Sissoko and | :06:04. | :06:13. | |
that's reached the moon! A poor effort from Sissoko. Watch when the | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
ball comes in. Fonte reads this brilliantly, he doesn't go and | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
challenge Griezmann. He anticipates the flick on and gets the clearance, | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
but wild slash at that from Pogba, you'd expect better from him. | :06:28. | :06:39. | |
Most of the noise at the moment is coming from the determined, | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
passionate bunch of Portuguese. Nani slipped as he tried to knock one | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
infield to Cedric, who had advanced. He'll have to get back quickly now. | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
Nice work from Moussa Sissoko. Look how quickly Miss Tweedy was | :06:57. | :07:17. | |
onto it. Griezmann was there. -- Matuidi. Portugal pride themselves | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
on being defensively strong. Not looking it at the moment. Another | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
good opportunity. Griezmann snatches at it. You expect more from him. | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
There's men in the box, disappointed he didn't find them. Can't blame | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
him, really. Goal-scoring boots on at the moment. Six in the | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
tournament, five in the last three games. It was a really good run from | :07:42. | :07:51. | |
Sissoko. The type of thing we know he can do. Matuidi has picked off | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
another one. Renato Sanches was caught heavily by | :07:56. | :08:07. | |
Payet when they both went in together. Payet in very strongly on | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
Ronaldo, who is rising. On goes Griezmann. It will be put out of | :08:16. | :08:22. | |
play under Pepe's command by Cedric Soares. We'll see what the damage | :08:23. | :08:32. | |
is. He looks hurt. He's not been on the ball much. Might be the first | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
time he's probably had it at his feet and Payet did not hang about. I | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
don't think it was particularly nasty. It was just need to need. It | :08:44. | :08:53. | |
can be sore. The right knee going into the left need of Ronaldo. -- | :08:54. | :09:03. | |
left knee. The biggest grimaces after these sorts of moments when | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
the drama takes over. You're right, they do hurt. I think he's genuinely | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
hurt, he's not overplaying it. Sometimes when you clash knees, it | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
feels a lot worse, and then it takes a minute or two to come back to you. | :09:20. | :09:28. | |
His boot was flat on the floor. Maybe a bit of a twist. | :09:29. | :09:37. | |
He's one player they can't lose. The player they can't lose. Might just | :09:38. | :09:47. | |
work in his favour if he's fit. Not that he should need any more firing | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
up. Almost a harsh and round the ground | :09:50. | :10:02. | |
as people waited to see just what the extent of the injury was. | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
Griezmann... Instinctive header. He knew where the goal was. He knew | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
where really protrusion would be and it's a decent save. -- Rui Patricio. | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
A slip from Pepe, making their own mistakes at the moment. Good save. | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
Good header from Griezmann, clever. Another Payet corner. Went big with | :10:31. | :10:40. | |
it and straight at Rui Patricio from Olivier Giroud. Just how he would | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
have wanted it. It was a good ball in. This is the Griezmann header. | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
Tries to look it over the goalkeeper. Moves his feet well, | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
good save. Both these goalkeepers have had excellent Euro 2016s. | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
Portugal making too many mistakes at the moment, helping France. They | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
don't need any help with the players they've got. Renato Sanches quick to | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
throw it in after good movement from Adrien Silva. The bounce of the ball | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
beat him. Sagna seems to have rolled back the years after the last three | :11:23. | :11:35. | |
weeks. Evra, too, on the other side. Renato Sanches won't find Ronaldo | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
with that. He's still feeling his way back into things. It's a worry. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
It's on the back of his mind, you can tell. He's still limping and | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
testing it out. It's on the front and the sides, too. | :11:52. | :12:15. | |
What a rise in TT has enjoyed, third cap in his last three games. -- | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
Umtiti. Matuidi had to go backwards but had | :12:22. | :12:53. | |
the athleticism to sort himself out. The return not quite in the right | :12:54. | :13:01. | |
spot to Payet. Awkward landing for Ronaldo after he won the header. | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
That's a landing that couldn't be avoided by Pogba with Joao Mario | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
coming in. He didn't want to put weight on that knee. It's a problem, | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
definitely. He's going to have to make a decision soon later. If he is | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
really struggling. -- sooner or later. | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
Jose Fonte given time on the ball. Guerreiro looking to busy things are | :13:33. | :14:00. | |
for Portugal. -- up. Umtiti was being ordered by Evra to | :14:01. | :14:22. | |
play it back to Lloris with Nani about. | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
Ronaldo fouled this time. Portugal took the free kick perhaps too | :14:29. | :14:40. | |
quickly. I think they did. They need to get a foothold in the game, get | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
some passes, some possession and some confidence on the ball. | :14:45. | :14:51. | |
France have looked the better team in the opening 14 minutes. The | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
saving grace for Portugal is that it is level, that one save from Rui | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
Patricio. Portugal have grown into the tournament, they might have to | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
grow into the final. They started slowly against Wales, actually, | :15:12. | :15:12. | |
before they grew into that game. Still, most of the noises coming | :15:13. | :15:24. | |
from their supporters. There is hushed expectation amongst the vast | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
majority inside the Stade de France. He has started brightly, Sissoko. | :15:28. | :16:03. | |
Nice and positive. Good energy. Probably a few Newcastle fans | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
thinking that they haven't seen that for a while. Certainly didn't see it | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
often enough last season. A bit of a pick up, once Rafael Benitez came to | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
Toon. Carvalho, at the U21 tournament just | :16:22. | :17:04. | |
over a year ago. Normally, players like Sanches would be playing in | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
tournaments like that one. Been thrust into the tournament. Ronaldo | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
has gone down. He's coming off. There are going to be tears. This | :17:17. | :17:17. | |
was his stage. This is not how it was supposed to | :17:18. | :17:29. | |
end in France, this summer, for Cristiano Ronaldo. A massive shame, | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
absolutely devastated for him. I've been watching him for four five | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
shaking his head. -- for four or five minutes, he was shaking his | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
head. It's his name that the Portugal fans singing, but they | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
won't be seeing him in action again tonight. Nine or messy, recently, | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
copper America, it didn't work him. -- the Copa America. The two | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
greatest around right now, they haven't had it go for them on the | :18:04. | :18:05. | |
international stage. A little bit naughty from Payet, but | :18:06. | :18:17. | |
not horrendous. Maybe he tweaked something? So wrapped up in his | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
disappointment, he doesn't even notice a moth paying a visit. A | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
change, and the last one that Fernando Santos would have | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
contemplated making. I'm sure many of you at home will be cheering at | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
this, but that is a sad sight, a great sportsman. You want to see the | :18:42. | :18:48. | |
best players play. Forget the histrionics, he is a wonderful | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
footballer and we want to see him on the pitch. Looks like they are | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
trying to give it one last bit of treatment before they make the final | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
call. He knows, now. They can take that up, but he will be playing | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
within himself. He's got to be able to sprint, get off the ground, go | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
past people. The things he normally does? The things he does. Every | :19:12. | :19:18. | |
player knows out there, even Sunday league footballers, you try to play | :19:19. | :19:19. | |
with an injury, it's impossible. At the moment, France are playing | :19:20. | :19:28. | |
against ten. A few anxious Real Madrid supporters | :19:29. | :19:53. | |
watching this. Portugal are doing well to keep the | :19:54. | :20:32. | |
ball, while they are a man light on the field. | :20:33. | :20:42. | |
Can France break? That is as quick as Giroud has moved in a while. He's | :20:43. | :20:55. | |
coming back on? Fairplay for having a go, it's a risk. A risk worth | :20:56. | :20:57. | |
taking. 11 on the field for Portugal, maybe | :20:58. | :21:16. | |
ten plus one, but it is a big one. I understand the risk, why they are | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
taking a chance. They just have to be so careful that he's not leaving | :21:21. | :21:28. | |
himself open for a worse injury. But it's the biggest game of his life, | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
isn't it? I'd do the same. I'd want to be out there. The only player | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
they would take that risk for. Yes. Throwing for Portugal. There will be | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
watching the body language very closely indeed. | :21:48. | :22:30. | |
Sissoko, he has started the game keen to drive at Portugal with every | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
chance he gets. He comes into a central area and he thinks, there's | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
a gap, I'm going for it. That is one way of getting through a packed | :22:41. | :22:50. | |
defence. Quality run. So strong. The shot was deflected and it will be a | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
France corner. His home debut for Newcastle against Chelsea, he loved | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
one of the best players in the world. He's not done it quite since. | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
-- he looked to be one of the best players in the world. | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
Outcomes Rui Patricio and that is a great acclaim. It is all going on | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
behind him, as he gets on with finding Ronaldo. He has winced as he | :23:14. | :23:24. | |
found the pass. He's off, he has just signalled to the bench. | :23:25. | :23:43. | |
Ronaldo could not get the spring. Adrien Silva, way off target. | :23:44. | :23:53. | |
Ronaldo has signalled again, he has given the call to Jose Fonte and | :23:54. | :24:07. | |
Pepe. The bigger worry is this man coming off. What is it about this | :24:08. | :24:15. | |
stadium and the big major finals with Ronaldo? It has struck again. | :24:16. | :24:27. | |
Portugal will have to do it for their man, without their man. It's a | :24:28. | :24:38. | |
shame for everybody. Viewers, players, you want to beat the best | :24:39. | :24:41. | |
team, you want to play against the best players. Of course it is going | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
to benefit the French team. But watching Ronaldo at his best in the | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
semifinal was a delight. You can tell us, I think you have already | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
explained it, but there was nothing preplanned about that? It was | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
accidental, wasn't it? It was a bit lazy, from Payet. It wasn't a great | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
tackle. But it wasn't nasty. He has just tweaked something in his knee, | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
whether it is the medial ligament, I'm not sure. But you can't carry on | :25:15. | :25:23. | |
with it. On comes, in a moment, and incidentally this is nice, this is a | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
really nice thing to see, 90%, maybe more of the stadium, French, | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
Portuguese, neutrals, all applauding him off the field. A nice touch from | :25:37. | :25:42. | |
Didier Deschamps as well. Ricardo Quaresma, who has had a fine | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
tournament himself, is on. Given away to the new Portugal | :25:45. | :26:09. | |
captain, Nani. Ronaldo was just a teenager when | :26:10. | :26:27. | |
Portugal were last in the Euros final. He couldn't inspire them to | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
beat Greece. They won with their only shot on target the entire game. | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
Maybe the teenager on the field can really step it up? Well, an obvious | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
change formation, Nani is up on own, Quaresma on the right. Mario on the | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
left. Sanches has gone through the midfield to make it three. It is | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
for- 5-1, in effect. Quaresma does like to do whatever he | :26:54. | :27:09. | |
can with the outside of the boot. Knocked down tamely by Joao Mario. | :27:10. | :27:27. | |
Couldn't get a proper jump at that. Good move, nice and patient. Better | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
with the build-up, good cross in. I know who I would have wanted on the | :27:34. | :27:35. | |
back post. France, dominating possession, with | :27:36. | :27:46. | |
twice as many passes of the ball. Bid closing by Payet. Not to close | :27:47. | :28:29. | |
on that occasion. What it is going to do is make Portugal harder to | :28:30. | :28:35. | |
break down. They have another midfielder on the pitch, in effect. | :28:36. | :28:38. | |
Sometimes you carry Ronaldo a little bit defensively. Of course, you lose | :28:39. | :28:45. | |
that wonderful talent in attack, everything he brings going forward. | :28:46. | :28:49. | |
Defensively, they are certainly going to be tough to break down. As | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
if they already weren't. Still unbeaten in competitive | :28:55. | :29:01. | |
internationals under Fernando Santos's shrewd, wily stewardship. | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
They have only lost two 26 internationals that have really | :29:06. | :29:07. | |
meant something in the last four years. | :29:08. | :29:16. | |
Hard to beat. France knew that would be the case. Well-organised, well | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
coached, well drilled. Good shape. Rui Patricio stayed back, allowing | :29:21. | :29:54. | |
Raffaele De Vita error to flick it clear. A bit of uncertain goal | :29:55. | :30:01. | |
keeping. -- allowing Guerriero to flick it clear. | :30:02. | :30:10. | |
Another burst through the lot from Sissoko and his won corner. He did | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
it all by himself. Best player on the field at the moment. Big sack | :30:17. | :30:24. | |
Clay, exactly that. Positive, good skill, good balance. -- exactly. | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
Really hard to handle when he's playing like this. Griezmann on | :30:29. | :30:35. | |
corners. I thought your main striker wasn't meant to take corners! He is | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
little. Matuidi made a run into the box and | :30:39. | :30:50. | |
that's really good stuff from Southampton's Cedric Soares. I like | :30:51. | :30:56. | |
Cedric, he's a good player. Quick, doesn't dive in too often. Made his | :30:57. | :31:05. | |
international debut here. 2-1 France win in the November of 2014. | :31:06. | :31:15. | |
France have actually won the last ten meetings. They've only got a | :31:16. | :31:21. | |
better current run against Luxembourg. I saw that the other | :31:22. | :31:26. | |
day. Strange, sometimes, how you seem to do well against a particular | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
team, but I don't think the Portuguese players would have been | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
thinking about that. I know we've had this conversation. Club football | :31:36. | :31:38. | |
don't bother with it so at international level, even less so. | :31:39. | :31:45. | |
Enough on it from Fonte to find Rui Patricio. Terrific defending, | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
railway, patient, stayed with Griezmann, good header. | :31:50. | :32:09. | |
Nani caught waiting for it and in came Laurent Koscielny, doing what | :32:10. | :32:17. | |
he does. More interceptions than any other defender in the Premier League | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
last season. I'd like to see Portugal try to get Nani in behind a | :32:22. | :32:26. | |
bit more. The only bit of joy they've had in the first half. Get | :32:27. | :32:30. | |
him off the shoulder of Nani and play some diagonals. -- shoulder of | :32:31. | :32:34. | |
Koscielny. Sagna on the charge. It's been | :32:35. | :32:51. | |
forced into the boards, he couldn't do anything else with it. Nothing | :32:52. | :32:58. | |
much for Mark Clattenburg to concern himself with yet. No. I have to say, | :32:59. | :33:06. | |
I think the refereeing generally at this tournament has been really | :33:07. | :33:10. | |
good. There's definitely been a conscious effort to keep play going, | :33:11. | :33:16. | |
not that many red cards, it's been really refreshing. Absolutely. I | :33:17. | :33:25. | |
suppose we have to thank one of the best, Pierluigi Collina, for some of | :33:26. | :33:30. | |
that. In charge of Uefa's technical department when it comes to | :33:31. | :33:31. | |
officiating. Great work again from Sissoko! He | :33:32. | :33:59. | |
stung the hands of Rui Patricio. Portugal keep out another France | :34:00. | :34:27. | |
forward movement. Cedric went in without enough care on Payet. He | :34:28. | :34:31. | |
caught him midair and he was never going to get the ball. He has to get | :34:32. | :34:36. | |
the first card of the match. Definitely, yellow card. About time | :34:37. | :34:43. | |
Cedric left a bit on him, if I'm honest. Getting too much of the | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
ball, Payet. I'm not suggesting you should be attacking people. This is | :34:48. | :34:52. | |
the chance. Good play from Sissoko, clever turn, full of confidence. | :34:53. | :34:59. | |
Didn't quite get the bend on it. A decent ball in from Payet, but a | :35:00. | :35:08. | |
nice, hanging 14 Rui Patricio. -- hanging one four Rui Patricio. | :35:09. | :35:17. | |
I think it's important for a full-back or a defender when you're | :35:18. | :35:22. | |
playing against a talented player to let them know you're there. Get | :35:23. | :35:29. | |
really close to them. That was a bit over the top, one might say. | :35:30. | :35:47. | |
If you do occasionally see a shadowy shape flicker across your screen, | :35:48. | :35:54. | |
there are still a lot of moths flying around the stadium and there | :35:55. | :35:59. | |
have been all evening. Not sure what anyone can do about that. Close your | :36:00. | :36:06. | |
wallet. I knew that was coming. Safely done from Lloris, but at the | :36:07. | :36:11. | |
cost of a throw. You still owe me money from the goal the other day. | :36:12. | :36:14. | |
You said you'd never mention that ever again. -- our game of golf. | :36:15. | :36:35. | |
Portugal coping without their talismanic pretty well at the | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
moment. They are doing OK. Sissoko is causing them a few problems with | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
his direct running, but they can't get any good possession in the final | :36:46. | :36:50. | |
third. They haven't really worked Lloris at all. | :36:51. | :37:21. | |
Still the Portugal supporters, with their flags, clap and cheer. They | :37:22. | :37:29. | |
realise they have to play their part now. They are doing well to make | :37:30. | :37:32. | |
themselves heard. The first time Allez Les Bleus has | :37:33. | :38:05. | |
started to build. Brilliantly done by Renato Sanches, and a way to find | :38:06. | :38:12. | |
Quaresma. Cedric has come to help Nani. Nani might not need any | :38:13. | :38:19. | |
assistance. Adrien Silva wanted to long on it. It was dragged by | :38:20. | :38:27. | |
Guerreiro, but it took a French touch and it's a Portugal corner. | :38:28. | :38:31. | |
Really good move started by Sanches with great skill in the middle of | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
the pitch. It falls to Silva in the end, a good run from Nani. Can't get | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
it out of his feet, gets a bit trapped. Now we have Quaresma on the | :38:42. | :38:55. | |
floor. He's hurt himself. Among the substitutes, he was really the only | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
possible replacement for Cristiano Ronaldo. They need him to get up and | :39:00. | :39:02. | |
get on with it. That's fine. No goals. France have had three | :39:03. | :39:18. | |
corners, this is Portugal's first. It was a good leap. Jose Fonte from | :39:19. | :39:29. | |
a standing start. Good ball in. It is a good leap. He wins it quite | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
cleanly and should do better. We've seen him score some really good | :39:34. | :39:40. | |
headers for Southampton. Sissoko off again. Lovely early cross from | :39:41. | :39:46. | |
Dmitri Payet. That man Sissoko again. Starting the | :39:47. | :40:01. | |
move. Another good header from Fonte. Close to Giroud, touch type. | :40:02. | :40:08. | |
-- touch tight. Quaresma managed to hold off Matuidi | :40:09. | :40:20. | |
first time and second. Look how many deep red shirts are | :40:21. | :40:46. | |
back in their own half. No frills defending from Pepe, the | :40:47. | :41:21. | |
Real Madrid man. Good attack, good defending, good quality football all | :41:22. | :41:27. | |
round. Renato Sanches, just enough on it for Joao Mario. Pogba, not | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
enough on it. Nani was well placed. Another Portugal corner. Best spell | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
of the game, end to end. Joao Mario wanders away. But the | :41:37. | :42:07. | |
short option is still there. Pepe nearly got there. Umtiti, | :42:08. | :42:10. | |
importantly, just nicked in ahead of him. Guerreiro once more. Caught | :42:11. | :42:20. | |
between stand between. Unlucky. Some good ball is put in from both sides. | :42:21. | :42:25. | |
We talked earlier in the tournament about England's Paul set plays. | :42:26. | :42:31. | |
They've all been on the money tonight. -- whore set plays. | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
Nearly half the 45 goals France have conceded under Deschamps have come | :42:38. | :42:50. | |
from set pieces. We always decry goals like that, but it seems to | :42:51. | :42:53. | |
happen more and more the higher up the levels you go. You have such big | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
and strong guys to defend against. It gets more difficult. What it is | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
part of football. Very important part now. | :43:05. | :43:15. | |
Mark Clattenburg has asked for the ball to be put out. Not seen too | :43:16. | :43:27. | |
much of Pogba. What's that about? Do we need a change of ball? I think it | :43:28. | :43:31. | |
might have popped. Two minutes until the half-time | :43:32. | :44:07. | |
interval, or there or thereabouts. There will be a bit more added on | :44:08. | :44:13. | |
for Ronaldo's injury. Portugal, over the last ten to 15 minutes, have | :44:14. | :44:18. | |
spent an increasing amount of time in the French half. Very | :44:19. | :44:19. | |
well-balanced. They've got some good players, they | :44:20. | :44:32. | |
have kept the ball well, grown in confidence. They started nervously | :44:33. | :44:36. | |
in the first ten minutes and we saw some stray passes. The substitution | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
of Ronaldo, which has change their system, has given them a bit of | :44:41. | :44:47. | |
better balance. Luis Figo, yawning. He's allowed. They would have loved | :44:48. | :44:53. | |
to have brought on their previous magnificent number seven. I had the | :44:54. | :44:59. | |
pleasure of being on the same pitch as him once. See a lot of him? Not | :45:00. | :45:05. | |
really. He was absolutely amazing. So strong. | :45:06. | :45:27. | |
Griezmann won't jump for that and wasn't blocked unfairly, either. A | :45:28. | :45:34. | |
Portugal throw-in. A frustrating night for the man who has lit up the | :45:35. | :45:37. | |
tournament with his half a dozen goals so far. Not quite have the | :45:38. | :45:43. | |
joy. He keeps getting in there, keeps asking for the ball. He always | :45:44. | :45:49. | |
wants it. A poor cross, by the way, from Sagna. No pressure on the ball. | :45:50. | :46:00. | |
Ricardo Quaresma is down, a clash of heads. That is why the game had to | :46:01. | :46:09. | |
be stopped. There might be more added time than the two minutes but | :46:10. | :46:11. | |
were indicated. There will be a feud with headaches | :46:12. | :46:32. | |
watching the game, I would think. It's not exactly been one to get the | :46:33. | :46:37. | |
pulse racing so far. Hasn't, but it's been fascinating. The French | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
started really well. Portugal hung in in the early stages. They have | :46:43. | :46:45. | |
had to deal with the massive blow of losing their captain. I think they | :46:46. | :46:48. | |
have recovered well, I really do. They have passed the ball well. | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
They've not troubled the goalkeeper, of course, but growing into the | :46:54. | :47:01. | |
game. Giroud might be scratching his head looking at Moussa Sissoko's | :47:02. | :47:05. | |
display full stop When you have someone of that ability, the only | :47:06. | :47:11. | |
other thing you can question is his mentality. Tonight, he has looked | :47:12. | :47:15. | |
like a world beater, he's playing with an energy and desire that, as | :47:16. | :47:19. | |
you say, we haven't really seen since the opening month of the | :47:20. | :47:22. | |
season, the opening month of his career in England. | :47:23. | :47:36. | |
You would think Portugal would be quite content to take this at the | :47:37. | :47:38. | |
interval. Joao Mario wanted Nani to jump. | :47:39. | :48:00. | |
Couldn't do it. Koscielny didn't have to. Good break, good ball. | :48:01. | :48:06. | |
Unlucky, tries to pick Nani out. He doesn't take a gamble, Nani. | :48:07. | :48:39. | |
Half-time in the final of the 2016 European Championship. Griezmann has | :48:40. | :48:48. | |
come as close as anybody, kept out by Rui Patricio. We haven't had a | :48:49. | :48:53. | |
goal, but we have had a major story. Cristiano Ronaldo forced off injured | :48:54. | :49:00. | |
after a clash with Dimitri Payet pretty early in proceedings. It | :49:01. | :49:04. | |
wasn't meant to be that way. Can anything stand in France's way? | :49:05. | :49:07. | |
Portugal are, so far, 0-0. No goals, no Ronaldo, that is the | :49:08. | :49:18. | |
story of the first half, not much to cheer one? A pretty tame affair, the | :49:19. | :49:23. | |
big news was obviously Ronaldo. A big blow to everybody, such a shame | :49:24. | :49:26. | |
for him and the game, because we want to see the best players on the | :49:27. | :49:30. | |
biggest stage. Having said that, I think the game is sitting Portugal | :49:31. | :49:34. | |
more than France. They are playing the way that we expected them to | :49:35. | :49:40. | |
play, sitting deep, even deeper now that their superstar has gone off. | :49:41. | :49:46. | |
There has not been too much brilliance to break them down. What | :49:47. | :49:49. | |
you make of it from a French perspective? Sissoko has been | :49:50. | :49:56. | |
playing so well in the first half, Matuidi as well. But in these games | :49:57. | :50:02. | |
coming beat people in a one-on-one situation. You need to unlock | :50:03. | :50:04. | |
something because they are difficult to play against. That is why Moussa | :50:05. | :50:08. | |
Sissoko was playing well, because he can't beat people one-on-one. At one | :50:09. | :50:12. | |
point you have to do that, if not it will be very difficult. The first 15 | :50:13. | :50:16. | |
minutes were lively, but when Ronaldo went off it is almost like | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
everybody went, what do we do now? Yes, the superstar has left, who is | :50:22. | :50:25. | |
going to unlock the door? Who will give that | :50:26. | :50:36. | |
moment of inspiration? This game suits Portugal, they still look a | :50:37. | :50:40. | |
threat every now and again on the counterattack. They just haven't got | :50:41. | :50:42. | |
that potent person in front of goal. If they get out there and get out, | :50:43. | :50:45. | |
Nani, with Ronaldo off the pitch, he might be able to express himself | :50:46. | :50:48. | |
more. I think Renato Sanches, as well, breaking from midfield, he's | :50:49. | :50:51. | |
done that a couple of times. France have to be careful. Matuidi is | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
covering a lot of ground. If he can continue doing that, they will be in | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
with a chance. France need width. White players having coming inside | :51:00. | :51:03. | |
all the time. If they can spread the back four of the Portuguese, they | :51:04. | :51:08. | |
will have a chance. France have generally made changes or something | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
at half-time and be much better in the second 45 minutes? That is what | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
I am talking about, it might be a game for Marcel, we know that both | :51:18. | :51:22. | |
of those guys have the ability of beating people at any time, when | :51:23. | :51:26. | |
they are on June. Who knows what he's going to do at half-time. You | :51:27. | :51:31. | |
need somebody to make something up, if you don't do it against Portugal, | :51:32. | :51:37. | |
it will be difficult. It will not be Ronaldo making anything happening in | :51:38. | :51:41. | |
this game. A shame to see a huge star, in his big final? I don't | :51:42. | :51:48. | |
think there is any blame for Payet. It was a strong, hard challenge. | :51:49. | :51:53. | |
Very rarely do you actually see Ronaldo getting hit with tackles, he | :51:54. | :52:02. | |
normally jumps over them. He got one tackle, comes in again. | :52:03. | :52:09. | |
It's unlikely, that is all you can say about it. I don't think he had | :52:10. | :52:16. | |
the intention to hurt him, I think he wanted to put in a strong tackle, | :52:17. | :52:21. | |
let him know he is there. You don't want to injure anybody, but you want | :52:22. | :52:24. | |
to be physical. It is unfortunate his studs got caught. Ligaments, I | :52:25. | :52:32. | |
would say. In fairness, he did it on Sanches just before. We saw Matuidi | :52:33. | :52:36. | |
doing it on Carvalho. The French team came out saying, listen, we are | :52:37. | :52:42. | |
here. You don't want to see a player of that magnitude leaving the field, | :52:43. | :52:49. | |
knowing that he won't be in another tournament. At this stage, he got | :52:50. | :52:56. | |
very emotional. In fact, the moth now has his own Twitter account! | :52:57. | :53:05. | |
Such other times we -- are the times we live in. Didier Deschamps, at the | :53:06. | :53:15. | |
end of the day, Ronaldo is an amazing guy, he will go down in | :53:16. | :53:18. | |
history as one of the best. You don't want to see one of those | :53:19. | :53:23. | |
players leaving the field. I was part of a final where another | :53:24. | :53:26. | |
Ronaldo was on a clean sheet, then he wasn't, and another one in 2016. | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
You want to beat the best team you can beat. He's not going to be | :53:31. | :53:35. | |
there, and that is the way it is. The French players will not be | :53:36. | :53:38. | |
bothered about it, they will be delighted, the biggest threat is off | :53:39. | :53:43. | |
the pitch. Looking at the game itself, one or two chances. Nani was | :53:44. | :53:47. | |
the first to have an opportunity? We've not seen a lot, attacking | :53:48. | :53:52. | |
wise, from Portugal. They haven't had one effort on target. But that | :53:53. | :53:57. | |
was the best they gave us in that first half. Good ball, good run, | :53:58. | :54:02. | |
poor finish. Myself and Thierry were thinking that maybe you should have | :54:03. | :54:07. | |
checked that over the goalkeeper, but it would take something special | :54:08. | :54:11. | |
to beat Hugo Lloris. The Griezmann header is probably the closest that | :54:12. | :54:15. | |
they have come to? We expected Griezmann to be the one to try to | :54:16. | :54:19. | |
unlock the door. A bit of a mistake from Pepe. Fantastic ball from Payet | :54:20. | :54:27. | |
and a really good saved. This guy is small, but he's very good with his | :54:28. | :54:33. | |
head. That it is what it will take, a mistake from Pepe. Payet spotted | :54:34. | :54:42. | |
it, a great run from Griezmann. As expected, Portugal with a lot of men | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
behind the ball, looking for counterattack, plenty of examples? | :54:48. | :54:50. | |
It is proving frustrating for France. But it is working for | :54:51. | :54:54. | |
Portugal at the moment. They haven't found too many ways of getting | :54:55. | :54:58. | |
through this. They are tight, they are compact, all together. As I said | :54:59. | :55:02. | |
beforehand, they all know their roles. At times, it is really | :55:03. | :55:08. | |
frustrating as an opposing player, playing against a system like this. | :55:09. | :55:11. | |
They are good at it. They know their roles. To get through it, you have | :55:12. | :55:18. | |
to have someone like Sissoko who will look at that. Look up the | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
number of bodies, forcing them inside, where they want them to go. | :55:24. | :55:27. | |
In the end, they get the ball and hit you on the break. That is how | :55:28. | :55:33. | |
you get through, quick, incisive, 1-2 passing and all of a sudden you | :55:34. | :55:41. | |
are in the back four. Sissoko at helping because he is picking the | :55:42. | :55:44. | |
ball up and driving through the spaces. We have seen it all season | :55:45. | :55:49. | |
with Newcastle(!) It is a different one to what I have seen at | :55:50. | :55:55. | |
Newcastle. Must be his twin brother? This is what you need to do at | :55:56. | :55:59. | |
times, not all the time, but at times to make sure you unlock the | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
back... Well, almost 11 at times. He has that in his locker. Sometimes | :56:05. | :56:09. | |
you will say the way that he finishes what he starts, it is not | :56:10. | :56:13. | |
what you expect. But look at this. That is what you need to do. That | :56:14. | :56:19. | |
scares teams. Ask any midfielder, if you are playing against a midfielder | :56:20. | :56:24. | |
that turns and will try to beat you from the central area, especially | :56:25. | :56:27. | |
like he is doing, it is scary for a midfielder and also the back four. | :56:28. | :56:31. | |
He is pulling people out of position. I personally love this. I | :56:32. | :56:37. | |
don't know why he didn't curve it. But that turn was amazing. He can | :56:38. | :56:50. | |
run all day. Want to see some goals? It is time to choose the goal of the | :56:51. | :56:53. | |
tournament. Eight contenders coming up. | :56:54. | :57:15. | |
Payet! What a wonderful goal! A belter in the last minute. What a | :57:16. | :57:22. | |
goal to win a game. Goal! Luka Modric for Croatia! | :57:23. | :57:42. | |
Falling invitingly and, quick as a flash, Modric strikes. | :57:43. | :57:50. | |
Hamsik! Just brilliant. Just brilliant from the best player on | :57:51. | :57:57. | |
the field. Such a sweet strike. Transfer Cristiano Ronaldo! 2-2! -- | :57:58. | :58:17. | |
chance for Ronaldo. Ronaldo becomes the first player to score at four | :58:18. | :58:20. | |
different European Championship finals. | :58:21. | :58:30. | |
Shaqiri! What a goal! Stunning! The little man has opened up the magic | :58:31. | :58:41. | |
box and produced a piece of wizardry. | :58:42. | :58:51. | |
And he took the shot, and he scores magnificently! That is even better. | :58:52. | :59:04. | |
Good run from Aaron Ramsey. Towards Robson-Kanu. What a turn! What I | :59:05. | :59:18. | |
goal! What a moment for Wales. Robson-Kanu, with what may well be | :59:19. | :59:19. | |
the goal of his life. Lovely touch by Giroud. Griezmann is | :59:20. | :59:38. | |
in! Scores! Top scorer in the competition now. Of all the people | :59:39. | :59:45. | |
for the chance to come to, you knew he wasn't going to miss. 38 goal for | :59:46. | :59:49. | |
club and country this season. Hasn't been a tournament of many | :59:50. | :59:58. | |
goals, but certainly one of great goals. | :59:59. | :00:01. | |
in the French half. Very well-balanced. | :00:02. | :00:15. | |
The football is almost at an end, but there's another big event just | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
the corner. -- just around the corner. | :00:24. | :01:20. | |
Welcome to the end of the party. Griezmann! Instinctive header. A | :01:21. | :02:08. | |
great sportsman. Great work again from Sissoko. We haven't had a goal, | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
but we have had a major story. Goalless at half-time. The big story | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
was Cristiano Ronaldo limped out, sadly, early. Didier Deschamps has | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
made some dramatic and significant changes at half-time in this | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
tournament, do you expect him to do the same now? I don't expect him to | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
do it yet. But I think it will come pretty quickly if it stays like that | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
because they need to have someone... Sissoko has been doing it. I don't | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
think he'll do it yet, but maybe I'm wrong. I think substitutions will be | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
key, the bench of France is better than Portugal. They have players to | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
come on who have made big impacts. Portugal will play exactly the same. | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
They'll be content with the first 45 minutes. They just have to hope one | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
of the game changers turns up for France in the second half. A goal | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
generally livens things up, it might come from that man, top scorer in | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
the tournament, and one Griezmann. He's been prolific in recent games. | :03:18. | :03:24. | |
Payet scored late on. Who knows what will happen in the second half. | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
Let's rejoin Guy Mowbray and Danny Murphy. No changes made during the | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
half-time interval so just that one big one in the first half, Ricardo | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Quaresma on in place of Cristiano Ronaldo. We did see the site of | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
Kingsley Coman warming up on his own throughout half-time. We been | :03:44. | :03:51. | |
speculating as to whether -- who he might come on for and when. I would | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
have been surprised to see him instead of Payet. Sissoko has been | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
the player of the first half. Payet has the ability to open you up in an | :04:01. | :04:06. | |
instant. We'll see, but he still warming up. France have started the | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
second half in hot fashion. Nani has lost it and he hobbled away from the | :04:13. | :04:21. | |
challenge. Umtiti followed him. Trod on his foot. Yeah, it was a foul. | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
Good play from Nani, keeping the ball for his team. When you're up | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
there on your own, crucial. Shiny silver boots. Not offering a great | :04:38. | :04:44. | |
deal of protection from that, though. Can't lose him, too. | :04:45. | :04:59. | |
Some neat footwork from Adrien Silva, but then he ran into the | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
colossus that is Paul Barber. Giroud promptly did something similar | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
himself, straight into William Carvalho. -- Paul Pogba. Mark | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
Clattenburg not impressed. This has been the France pattern all the way | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
through the group stages and then against the Republic of Ireland. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Their first six goals of the tournament were all scored after | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
half-time. They didn't get going in those games early doors. They | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
promptly scored four before the break against Iceland. Sissoko | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
penalised. Portugal free kick. It will just be a free kick. Pepe is | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
making the most of it. Sorry, say that again?! Forget him making the | :05:52. | :05:58. | |
most of it, he's been superb tonight. His interceptions and | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
reading of the game have been really, really good. I hate to see | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
all that diving about, though. He's all right, you'll be pleased to | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
know. When he gets on with just offending, he's one of the best | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
around. He's been named in the European Championship team of the | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
tournament in the last two editions of this. Very, very good footballer, | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
but spoils it with the other stuff. Carvalho had to quicken the stride | :06:26. | :06:58. | |
to get that away from the strong, ever willing Matuidi. | :06:59. | :07:10. | |
Lovely touch from Joao Mario, who's got it again. Cedric was busting | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
everything to get on the end of it. Good move. Portugal quicken things | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
up. Nice work from the full-back again | :07:22. | :07:38. | |
until that final ball is blocked. Easy for lorries. -- Lloris. On his | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
way back, he casually makes sure the ball doesn't reach Sissoko. You can | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
see just why he's made a big-money move, getting on for ten money -- | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
?10 million, from Lorient to Brucie Dortmund. I've been impressed with | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
him. -- Borussia Dortmund. Unlucky there with his final ball. Sissoko | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
just got his toe on it. He certainly wants to get on the ball and make | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
things happen, the left back. Sissoko tries to leave Carvalho | :08:15. | :08:24. | |
behind and runs into Cedric. Adrien Silva couldn't take it away | :08:25. | :08:46. | |
from Payet, but a super tackle from Pepe. Joao Mario was more concerned | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
with where Bakary Sako was running rather than running straight for the | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
ball. Fernando Santos is letting him know about it. -- Bacary Sagna. | :08:58. | :09:22. | |
Payet shoulder to shoulder with Renato Sanches. | :09:23. | :09:43. | |
Nani needed some help there. Good to see Payet coming into central areas | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
to try to get the ball. That's twice in the last couple of minutes. Nani | :09:52. | :09:59. | |
foul on Sissoko. Seems to be a bit of tempo to the start of the second | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
half. Definitely. Looks like the French got a bit of a rocket from | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
the manager. Live on yourselves up, get on the front foot and get some | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
attacks going. They are now get a boost from the crowd. | :10:13. | :10:22. | |
Griezmann wasn't on the scene. Pepe was. Pepe always is. France corner. | :10:23. | :10:33. | |
Good play again from Sissoko. He really has got the bit between his | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
teeth tonight. Aggressive with his running, desire to get forward. | :10:39. | :10:48. | |
Rui Patricio made his mind up very quickly to make it his and he did | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
make it his. Good goalkeeping. Just what you want from your keeper. A | :10:56. | :11:01. | |
lazy ball in from Griezmann. The first bad one he's hit. | :11:02. | :11:12. | |
Arms in the air from Fernando Santos, furious that Pepe did that | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
with it. Very demonstrative manager. He's never left the edge of the | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
technical zone. Didier Deschamps has hardly got to his feet. | :11:24. | :11:36. | |
Giroud not blessed with a pace that some have. He's had bad luck before | :11:37. | :11:49. | |
in big finals against Portuguese opposition. He got Porto in the 2004 | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
Champions League final and Jose Mourinho's side dismantled his | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
Monaco team. A good ball in from Payet. Look at | :11:58. | :12:23. | |
that for defending. If it's not Pepe, its Fonte. | :12:24. | :12:29. | |
We'll take another look at Pogba's strike to spare you the view of an | :12:30. | :12:39. | |
idiot on the field. When you think about the security situation in | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
France right now, it is no laughing matter when somebody does invade the | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
playing surface. Everybody is on high alert of tension. Just | :12:49. | :12:59. | |
brainless, isn't it? Just brainless. Credit to the fluorescent jacketed | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
stewards because they were on him in the blink of an eye. | :13:03. | :13:11. | |
William was mindful that Giroud was somewhere near. Koscielny was | :13:12. | :13:59. | |
blocking Zhao Mario. Strong from Pogba. Needs to impose himself on | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
the game a little bit more. Hasn't quite got himself in the game. | :14:08. | :14:19. | |
Umtiti has to make sure he gets in front of Nani to blast the ball | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
behind. Good move, wasn't it? Down the left-hand side. Mario getting | :14:27. | :14:35. | |
in, a good ball. Quaresma is on the corner. | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
Jose Fonte trying to get away from Koscielny. It won't matter with a | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
corner like that. It was a poor clearance from | :14:46. | :14:58. | |
Koscielny and he got mightily lucky. He did get lucky. It could have | :14:59. | :14:59. | |
ricocheted anywhere. Really good from Matuidi. His energy | :15:00. | :15:50. | |
levels are terrific. Keeps going after players, making you make a | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
mistake. We are going to have the first French change. What does | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
Didier Deschamps have up his sleeve? It's going to be Dimitri Payet, | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
potential matchwinner with his free kick taking abilities, but France | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
haven't had a sniff of that yet. On comes the man who started for Bayern | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
Munich on loan from Juventus, Kingsley Coman. I find that strange. | :16:14. | :16:22. | |
I thought Payet started the second half well, got on the ball a bit and | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
started to have an influence. He obviously wants that pace, the | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
ability to go past people. The lads in the studio were saying at | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
half-time he is certainly capable of that. One-on-one, he can beat you. | :16:35. | :16:47. | |
Griezmann, and straight at Rui Patricio, but immediately, the | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
substitute has brought Griezmann into the game. That was good | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
defending from Cedric. Really quick recovery from the full-back. | :16:57. | :17:09. | |
He has had some career, by the age of 20. | :17:10. | :17:20. | |
He is a super talent. Just has to get the consistency that comes with | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
more games that you play. It is a final that has matched the | :17:25. | :17:53. | |
rest of the tournament. We have had the moment. Every game has had a | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
moment. We just haven't had enough magic. | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
I think Portugal might be content to go the long route. I certainly can't | :18:05. | :18:14. | |
see them taking big risks. And awkward slip for Raphael Guerreiro. | :18:15. | :18:41. | |
Just the 17 years his junior. Not a lot in that, for me. Just getting on | :18:42. | :19:11. | |
top, a little bit, France. First to the loose balls, the knock-downs in | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
the middle of the pitch, Matuidi and Pogba. | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
I was just going to say, with the two central midfield players, in | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
Matuidi and Pogba, you miss somebody that can open up the back four from | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
the middle of the pitch, you know? Play delicate through balls. | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
About 20 minutes to go when they made the change in the semifinal | :19:41. | :19:50. | |
against Germany to put Pogba further downfield, and then he immediately | :19:51. | :19:51. | |
made goal number two. I think that one goal either way | :19:52. | :20:07. | |
might be good enough to make. I agree. | :20:08. | :20:29. | |
That is a lovely bit of control by Giroud. He had his foot hooked by | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
Joao Mario, who will be booked. Good touch from Giroud. Cynical | :20:39. | :20:56. | |
trip, no-brainer for Mr Clattenburg. Get the yellow out. | :20:57. | :21:03. | |
If ever there was a will from the crowd, this is it, now. | :21:04. | :21:19. | |
That was a good duel. The daddy of the team now once everyone to lift | :21:20. | :21:34. | |
it a bit. Good defending again from Cedric. | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
A Portugal change is imminent. They are going to put Moutinho into the | :21:42. | :22:09. | |
action. That was always Rui Patricio's ball. | :22:10. | :22:23. | |
Right idea, try to get some balls behind, use that pace. Why bring him | :22:24. | :22:29. | |
on, if not? Problem is, you are up against a full-back that is pretty | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
quick as well. Pogba didn't have an option other | :22:32. | :22:45. | |
than to go backwards. Sagna, a disappointing cross from | :22:46. | :23:43. | |
the Manchester City man. Evra as well, overhit, loads of time. | :23:44. | :23:54. | |
Coman is demanding the ball plenty. That cross, and Griezmann misses his | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
chance! Ball of the match, chance of the match. What a cross. What a bad | :24:04. | :24:15. | |
miss from a very good header of the ball. We saw in the last game how | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
good he can be. A man of his quality and his standards. A bad miss, huge | :24:24. | :24:32. | |
chance. Huge chance. Portugal substitution, their second. Adrien | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
Silva, born in France, makes way for a player based in France, at least | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
for the moment. Joao Moutinho has been a Monaco man for the last few | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
seasons. He is rumoured to be making a return to one of his former clubs, | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
auto. Joao Moutinho is generally seen as a chance maker. -- Porto. He | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
has an array of passes, he is skilful, very creative. Definitely a | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
positive substitution. He worked hard, Adrien Silva. Covered every | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
blade. Tenacious midfielder. It is already quite evident the way | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
Adrien Silva went off, the time that Rui Patricio truck with that | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
clearance, Portugal are in no great hurry. | :25:23. | :25:41. | |
Kingsley Coman's drive. Well, well wide. | :25:42. | :25:51. | |
Had he managed to burst the net with that, it might have been a contender | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
for the goal of the tournament. Just a reminder that you can go to the | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
BBC sport website to cast your vote for what you think has been the best | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
goal of Euro 2016. Voting closes at the end of normal time. Rui Patricio | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
has done that quite a lot, I should think. | :26:12. | :26:33. | |
Giroud just tries to get into Rui Patricio's face. | :26:34. | :26:43. | |
The Portugal players will not mind the noises coming from the French | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
fans. They are doing exactly what they should do, keeping the ball, | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
making France come out. France have to get on the front of us and try | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
and win the ball back. -- the front foot. | :27:00. | :27:12. | |
That looked more of a posh, than shoulder to shoulder from Joao | :27:13. | :27:20. | |
Mario, who has to watch his step a little. No need to do it. Quaresma | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
put in a great cross, somebody has to be busting a gut to try to get in | :27:28. | :27:30. | |
there and get on the end of that, in a dangerous area. Portugal have not | :27:31. | :27:39. | |
registered a shot on target yet. We mentioned earlier, the final that | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
they lost on home soil, 1- 02 Greece in 2004, the only goal of the game | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
in that one was Greece's only shot on target. It could happen all over | :27:53. | :27:53. | |
again. A similar defensive mindset all the | :27:54. | :28:07. | |
way through that tournament, Greece, and it worked for them. I still | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
think they have to be careful not to try and play for a draw, they have | :28:12. | :28:20. | |
to try and make a few chances. It was Umtiti who helped it across. | :28:21. | :28:43. | |
That lovely line from Fernando Santos, questioned about his team's | :28:44. | :28:52. | |
playing style, being pretty and being at home, or being ugly and | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
being here, I would prefer to be ugly. Well, you know how he feels. I | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
keep setting you up! Only Nani in the box, and he is | :29:01. | :29:47. | |
outnumbered. And the pass goes the wrong way. That has been the story | :29:48. | :29:53. | |
of their night, hasn't it? Getting to those areas quite nicely, then no | :29:54. | :29:57. | |
end product. No cutting edge in the final third. The wrong decision. | :29:58. | :30:06. | |
This is up to France and now, surely? This is their game? The | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
tempo is not quick enough, I'd like to see more urgency, try to press | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
them higher, force them into some errors like they did early in the | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
game. Right now, it is quite easy for Portugal. | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
Nice control from Coman. Here's the young sub once more, Kingsley Coman | :30:25. | :30:34. | |
forced wide. Nobody in the middle to help him out. France corner, but it | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
might have been a bit more than that. That's better. Speed of the | :30:38. | :30:44. | |
attack. The young man, Coman, the substitute. Pogba is ready to jump. | :30:45. | :30:52. | |
Missed by everybody. Excellent control in a tight spot by | :30:53. | :31:09. | |
Sanches and really good policing by Sissoko, who is away again. Stopped | :31:10. | :31:15. | |
by Nani. Fouled by Nani. That's got the benches to their feet. Some | :31:16. | :31:20. | |
passion on the touchline now. Might be what the match and needs. He was | :31:21. | :31:28. | |
fouled. I'm not so sure. What happened to a good old shoulder to | :31:29. | :31:29. | |
shoulder? Claiming a foul, Moutinho. You just get little sparks of France | :31:30. | :32:00. | |
upping their game and then it all quiet and is down again. They must | :32:01. | :32:02. | |
maintain the momentum. Coman couldn't have done much more | :32:03. | :32:23. | |
than he has done since leaving the bench. Towards Giroud. A miss kick | :32:24. | :32:32. | |
from Sagna, but Koscielny is there to help him. | :32:33. | :33:14. | |
Giroud brings the save from Rui Patricio. | :33:15. | :33:24. | |
Sissoko, one of his first models of the match. It's a good stretch from | :33:25. | :33:34. | |
Zhao Mario. He's only got Nani with him. Quaresma is trying to help out. | :33:35. | :33:41. | |
Renato Sanches there as well, but also many blue shirts. | :33:42. | :33:49. | |
Cedric Soares took too long and allowed Matuidi to get there and get | :33:50. | :33:57. | |
in the way of it. A good chance the Giroud, but made by that man again, | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
the young substitute, really trying to make an impression, Coman. | :34:02. | :34:10. | |
Comparisons with Franck Ribery and you can see why. Bustling, trying to | :34:11. | :34:16. | |
make things happen, a bit of inventiveness in the French game | :34:17. | :34:22. | |
now. He's been nice and brave. He even slipped during that run and | :34:23. | :34:26. | |
managed to come out with the ball. He's certainly made a difference. | :34:27. | :34:38. | |
Interesting change that France are about to make. Giroud to come off | :34:39. | :34:46. | |
and Gignac to come on. Portugal coming on strong. Griezmann has to | :34:47. | :34:58. | |
withstand a challenge from behind by William. | :34:59. | :35:27. | |
Giroud got in Griezmann's way. He was set to hit that with his left | :35:28. | :35:31. | |
foot. A substitute apiece ready to come | :35:32. | :36:01. | |
on. Andre-Pierre Gignac for France and Portugal throwing a forward into | :36:02. | :36:06. | |
the mix, too, with Eder ready. A straight swap for France. | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
Like-for-like at the top end, Giroud off and Gignac on. Giroud's chance | :36:11. | :36:19. | |
there. Didn't quite catch it. A tight angle, decent save from the | :36:20. | :36:29. | |
goalkeeper. The Portugal substitution is going to see Renato | :36:30. | :36:34. | |
Sanches come off. He's dropped in energy. He hasn't been demanding the | :36:35. | :36:39. | |
ball. He's hardly been in the action in the last ten to 15 minutes, but | :36:40. | :36:43. | |
he can be very pleased with his tournament. Showing great maturity | :36:44. | :36:51. | |
for such a young man, super talent. Eder to come on. Didn't exactly burn | :36:52. | :36:59. | |
it up at Swansea in the first half of the season and went to Lil -- | :37:00. | :37:10. | |
Lille on loan, a move which has now been made permanent. Portugal with a | :37:11. | :37:15. | |
target man now. I think you'll see Nani go into a wider area. | :37:16. | :37:29. | |
It hit Sissoko, who was unlucky. Was just a little flick off the back of | :37:30. | :37:44. | |
the head. Goalkick for Rui Patricio to take plenty of time with. A bit | :37:45. | :37:52. | |
of fortune for Portugal. The dummy goalkick doesn't go down well with | :37:53. | :37:54. | |
most of the crowd. Joao Mario, on a booking and he's | :37:55. | :38:05. | |
had a talking to since. Portugal have used all their substitutes now. | :38:06. | :38:11. | |
Really awkward! And another save from Lloris. He was very nearly | :38:12. | :38:16. | |
beaten first time by Nani. Not sure what Lloris is doing. A mishit from | :38:17. | :38:24. | |
Nani, but just catch. Immediately down the other end. Eder bunt | :38:25. | :38:35. | |
unfairly by Umtiti, free kick to Portugal. And a yellow card for the | :38:36. | :38:40. | |
young centre back. I tell you what is evident from just that one bit of | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
good attacking play... If Annie -- if Nani can get one-on-one with | :38:46. | :38:51. | |
Evra, he will cause problems. And chest United team-mates of old. -- | :38:52. | :39:00. | |
Manchester United. Nani really has gone wide. | :39:01. | :39:09. | |
Less than ten minutes of the 90 to go. This really is in the balance. | :39:10. | :39:17. | |
It's got the feel of a one goal game. Yeah, definitely. | :39:18. | :39:31. | |
This is where I'm talking about France, they can come and press this | :39:32. | :39:39. | |
ball. Take a bit more of a risk, come out of position and apply some | :39:40. | :39:49. | |
pressure. Nice Portugal move. It was there to be struck and strike it | :39:50. | :39:56. | |
hard Nani gate. It was a good move, nice build-up. Not much pressure on | :39:57. | :40:00. | |
the ball. Before you know it, you're in shooting distance. Seems to be... | :40:01. | :40:09. | |
They are taking more time about it. Almost as much belief in the | :40:10. | :40:15. | |
Portugal team now as there is in players in blue. | :40:16. | :40:29. | |
Eder was in a little late on Umtiti and Mark Clattenburg saw it. Shows a | :40:30. | :40:39. | |
Fonte on guard, as he has been all day. A great story, international | :40:40. | :40:44. | |
debut just short of his 31st birthday. He would never have | :40:45. | :40:48. | |
thought he would be in this sort of occasion. He's played well. | :40:49. | :40:51. | |
Goalkick. Frustration for Didier Deschamps. He | :40:52. | :41:05. | |
knows they've got more. They have had the better chances, of course | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
they have, but they've still not played... He doesn't look best | :41:10. | :41:19. | |
please! -- best pleased. Might have been a few thoughts of why didn't | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
our number seven stay fit and on the field? That sort of player that wins | :41:24. | :41:32. | |
a game as delicately balanced as this. Yeah. We'll never know, I'm | :41:33. | :41:38. | |
afraid. What he can be proud of is their performance since he went off. | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
They've dug in and played some OK football. They've lacked creativity | :41:43. | :41:45. | |
and a cutting edge, but they've stayed in the game. | :41:46. | :41:59. | |
Umtiti allowed to advance. Sissoko! Terrific strike. Sissoko is on it | :42:00. | :42:14. | |
again. That would trouble Rui Patricio quite so much. -- won't | :42:15. | :42:23. | |
trouble. Really positive again from Sissoko. A long way out, but it's a | :42:24. | :42:31. | |
good strike. Decent save from the goalkeeper, one you would expect him | :42:32. | :42:41. | |
to make. That was flying. Sissoko has hurt himself in going for the | :42:42. | :42:45. | |
follow-up header. He is still down and will need a bit of treatment. | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
Plenty of water being taken on board. It is a particularly warm and | :42:50. | :42:57. | |
muggy night in Paris. As things stand, there's going to be an extra | :42:58. | :43:01. | |
half-hour of football to be played. In the humidity. | :43:02. | :43:11. | |
Five finals in the past have gone to extra time. If it does go that way, | :43:12. | :43:23. | |
let's hope we have a little bit more fun and games to watch than we've | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
seen in most of the extra half hours in some of the games at Euro 16. | :43:28. | :43:35. | |
Only one goal scored in extra time. That was whereas late on for | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
Portugal against Croatia. -- that Quaresma. We're not there yet. | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
Nearly. I don't think Shelley was thanking | :43:44. | :44:01. | |
Sissoko for that one. Gignac, first time he's got on the ball. Positive | :44:02. | :44:08. | |
from Gignac. The shot blocked by Raphael Guerreiro. | :44:09. | :44:37. | |
Griezmann came running towards him, but not an option that he wanted to | :44:38. | :44:46. | |
use. A very good tackle from Joao Moutinho. In came Matuidi, too | :44:47. | :44:56. | |
strong. Good play, strong, get the body in, get the free kick for your | :44:57. | :44:57. | |
team. Eder tried to set him up. Brilliant | :44:58. | :45:18. | |
from Matuidi on a give and go. It's all becoming a little bit desperate. | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
Both teams are trying to win it if they can. It's not a bad idea from | :45:23. | :45:31. | |
Sissoko. A positive run, just overhit pass. There are some tired | :45:32. | :45:35. | |
legs out there, understandably. Massive occasion, warm evening. | :45:36. | :45:50. | |
Evra can't put the brakes on and find reverse. | :45:51. | :46:08. | |
It might not get you on the edge of your seat as often as some other | :46:09. | :46:14. | |
teams, but you can't help but admire Portugal for their rigidity, | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
stubbornness. They won't be beaten easily. No, as I said earlier, | :46:21. | :46:27. | |
really well drilled, disciplined, fit, strong, they know how to | :46:28. | :46:28. | |
defend. He was a defender in his playing | :46:29. | :46:38. | |
days, Fernando Santos. Long gone, those, though. | :46:39. | :46:46. | |
If the floodlights go coming he's got a degree in electrical | :46:47. | :46:48. | |
engineering. Quaresma couldn't do a great deal | :46:49. | :47:05. | |
with it. It was a bad touch, the ball was fine. Although that looked | :47:06. | :47:13. | |
like it was ending with a nice friendly touch, I don't think | :47:14. | :47:15. | |
Koscielny was best pleased about it. 90 seconds of the 90 minutes to go, | :47:16. | :47:36. | |
two or three to be added on, maybe. Time for the big push. | :47:37. | :47:50. | |
Pogba has not been freed from his defensive duties at all. Gignac had | :47:51. | :47:58. | |
wandered offside. Delicately curled in a Manuel | :47:59. | :48:13. | |
watched by Rui Patricio. Could easily have been put off by the | :48:14. | :48:15. | |
battle going on between Pepe. Nani. And we are into the first of | :48:16. | :48:57. | |
three minutes that will be added on. Great tackle by Koscielny, cleanly | :48:58. | :49:00. | |
away from Nani's boots. That is not going to work from | :49:01. | :49:06. | |
Gignac. Pogba wants more movement from | :49:07. | :49:30. | |
Gignac and Griezmann. He's not a playmaker, Pogba. You can | :49:31. | :49:49. | |
spray a ball in, occasionally. It is better getting shots off, making | :49:50. | :49:55. | |
runs into the box. 100 million worth? Not for me. Might be for | :49:56. | :50:01. | |
somebody. He's a good player, don't get me wrong. 100 million? No. | :50:02. | :50:08. | |
Gignac! But he hits the post! The goal was his! | :50:09. | :50:22. | |
I don't think we are going to get a chance any better than that. | :50:23. | :50:31. | |
Sometimes you start thinking, as a footballer, it might not be your | :50:32. | :50:37. | |
night. Just putting it out there! Andre-Pierre Gignac did everything | :50:38. | :50:40. | |
but the goal. Gignac is offside. There will be a | :50:41. | :51:04. | |
few mutterings about that. A man who used to play for Marseille, not | :51:05. | :51:13. | |
exactly the flavour of the month in this area, anyway. The groans when | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
the replay was shown. Scuffs it into the ground. | :51:18. | :51:22. | |
They used to have a special chant for him in Paris, poking fun at his | :51:23. | :51:29. | |
physique. He looks pretty fit to me. He does. Big Mac for Gignac was the | :51:30. | :51:42. | |
chant. Other burgers are available. I'm glad that you said it! | :51:43. | :51:48. | |
Time is almost up. The three minutes have been played, time is up. We are | :51:49. | :51:55. | |
going to have extra time. Another 30 minutes, we might even have a | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
penalty shoot out to decide who becomes the European champions. It | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
can only get ever more exciting, I guess, from here. Let's hope so. | :52:04. | :52:05. | |
0-0. No question that France went closest | :52:06. | :52:17. | |
to scoring, Gignac at the end. Goalless. The first European | :52:18. | :52:19. | |
Championship final to finish goalless. If it remains that way, it | :52:20. | :52:24. | |
goes to a penalty shoot out. There is always something to look forward | :52:25. | :52:31. | |
to at the end, however dour it might be. This game sums up the | :52:32. | :52:35. | |
tournament, for me, if I'm honest. Pretty dull, pretty boring. France, | :52:36. | :52:40. | |
without playing particularly well, have had chances to have won that | :52:41. | :52:44. | |
game, to win the tournament. They haven't, and they might regret that. | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
Portugal, exactly the same thing for the vast majority of the game, sit | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
deep, in the hope they might get a set piece, a piece of brilliance | :52:55. | :53:00. | |
from someone. Without that guy, Ronaldo, you just felt that they are | :53:01. | :53:04. | |
lacking a little bit of edge. Interesting to see Ronaldo coming | :53:05. | :53:08. | |
out at the end of 90 minutes to perhaps motivate the players, get | :53:09. | :53:12. | |
them going. He wants that title as much as anyone? I think so. He wants | :53:13. | :53:16. | |
to get his hands on that. He's the captain, he wants to lift it. He is | :53:17. | :53:22. | |
a team man. People think he is an egotistical fellow, but his drive is | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
to be the best, and to be the best you need a platform of a good team | :53:27. | :53:29. | |
around you and he appreciates that, he knows that. I think Portugal are | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
really sitting and waiting to go to penalties, I think. The way they | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
have played and performed, defended very well. Not risking much at all. | :53:39. | :53:43. | |
Not easy against Portugal, Thierry, but have you been disappointed with | :53:44. | :53:49. | |
the performance? In fairness, I was waiting for this kind of final, | :53:50. | :53:53. | |
calling for somebody to unlock something. At least he was trying to | :53:54. | :54:01. | |
do it, and he put almost the perfect ball for Griezmann, you would have | :54:02. | :54:06. | |
backed Griezmann to score the goal. Gignac created his own chance, when | :54:07. | :54:15. | |
the ball hit the post. I don't want to try... This is what we are going | :54:16. | :54:21. | |
to see now. It would have been amazing if he scored that goal. | :54:22. | :54:25. | |
But what if? Not far from where he is from, why not? He can be the guy | :54:26. | :54:42. | |
that can unlock the situation today, I am not Didier Deschamps, I am | :54:43. | :54:46. | |
throwing it out there. This kind of game, I have played so many finals | :54:47. | :54:51. | |
when it is very tight, and not easy. It is tight, it is tense, Griezmann | :54:52. | :54:59. | |
had a really good chance? He did. We just thought he was on his way down, | :55:00. | :55:03. | |
trying to head it on the way down, which is difficult. Trying to glance | :55:04. | :55:07. | |
it, rather than getting the neck muscles going, power behind it. A | :55:08. | :55:13. | |
good chance. As was this, for Giroud? And Coman is at the centre | :55:14. | :55:18. | |
of both of those chances, looking to commit people, take them on and ask | :55:19. | :55:21. | |
questions of defenders as individuals. People like that become | :55:22. | :55:25. | |
very important as the game goes on, they can be decisive. He could be | :55:26. | :55:29. | |
playing against Fulham the first game of the season next season, | :55:30. | :55:35. | |
Sissoko, he has been the best player on the pitch. Was a Sissoko, for me, | :55:36. | :55:39. | |
is the Man of the Match in the final. He has been the driving | :55:40. | :55:48. | |
force, the one that has been prepared to run into defence, into | :55:49. | :55:52. | |
the spaces that have been created. That is what has been lacking in the | :55:53. | :55:55. | |
French team. Everything has been a little bit slow, hasn't it? The | :55:56. | :56:00. | |
build-up, the passing. It is bravery as well. People think bravery is | :56:01. | :56:03. | |
just about going for tackles, sometimes it is receiving the ball | :56:04. | :56:07. | |
and saying, I'm going to take the team forward. Sissoko done that | :56:08. | :56:14. | |
great today. That is why I am talking about Martial. We have seen | :56:15. | :56:20. | |
at times, Coman the ball that he gives to Giroud, he overdid it, but | :56:21. | :56:24. | |
he created something, he got up and gives the ball. It's about | :56:25. | :56:27. | |
commitment, desire, trying to go forward. Martial has not in his | :56:28. | :56:35. | |
locker, maybe he's going to think about that. It looks like it will be | :56:36. | :56:39. | |
a mistake that will decide the game. So often the way. The Icelandic | :56:40. | :56:45. | |
chant we have seen so many times that this particular tournament. | :56:46. | :56:51. | |
Here we go. Another 30 minutes. Will that decide it or will we go all the | :56:52. | :56:56. | |
way to a penalty shoot out? We will see, with Danny and Guy. | :56:57. | :57:07. | |
It does seem that way. No sign of Anthony Martial, but they do have | :57:08. | :57:14. | |
that option. Some stretches on the touchline. Yohan Cabaye alongside | :57:15. | :57:21. | |
him. Only one substitute available now for Didier Deschamps. The last | :57:22. | :57:27. | |
time France were European champions, they won it in extra time. It was a | :57:28. | :57:31. | |
Golden Goal, we don't have those available this time. I quite liked | :57:32. | :57:37. | |
that, the Golden Goal. They tried it twice and scrapped it because it | :57:38. | :57:42. | |
made extra time to negative, teams were frightened of conceding. Well, | :57:43. | :57:45. | |
they haven't exactly been positive in this tournament. I think... Yeah, | :57:46. | :57:51. | |
there is an argument for both sides. My personal experience of it, we won | :57:52. | :57:55. | |
the Uefa cup with Liverpool with a Golden Goal. I think it was against | :57:56. | :58:06. | |
Alves. We went in on the front foot, thinking, let's get this done and | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
not take the risk of penalties. Not every team does that, of course. | :58:12. | :58:24. | |
This is the first time that France have been forced into two hours of | :58:25. | :58:27. | |
football. Umtiti is Barcelona bound after this | :58:28. | :58:52. | |
competition. Coman was trying to divert it into | :58:53. | :59:15. | |
Griezmann's path. For Les Bleus to go Allez, they need | :59:16. | :00:22. | |
the ball. We'll see how badly they want it. It's up to them now. Do | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
they want to take the risk of penalties or do they have the energy | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
and desire to get after Portugal? A bit of tension, a bit of fear factor | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
and we shouldn't underestimate the fatigue, too. | :00:40. | :00:54. | |
Free kick Portugal. He's done OK when he's come on, nice and strong, | :00:55. | :01:05. | |
kept the ball for his team and earned a few free kicks. He was | :01:06. | :01:16. | |
pulled to the floor by Umtiti. You know who wouldn't have thought twice | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
about striking it from here. Ricardo Quaresma looks more secure in the | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
thought of hoisting one into the air. Nice ball from Quaresma. The | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
book -- the flag is up. Wide of the target from Pepe anywhere. A few | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
French hearts were in mouse when they saw him rise. -- mouths. It's a | :01:37. | :01:48. | |
good ball, he's a yard off. Unlucky from Portugal. Ronaldo's up! Just as | :01:49. | :01:58. | |
much -- he did just as much as Fernando Santos did during the | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
break. He went round every one of them. Sissoko has been going around | :02:04. | :02:10. | |
everyone of them all match. A yellow card for Raphael Guerreiro. I've | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
seen Pepe score many good headers. He's a real threat. If anyone in the | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
Portugal side deserves to score a winning goal, it would be that man, | :02:22. | :02:28. | |
he's been sensational tonight. The France number three, Patrice Evra, | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
running straight into Nani. A tired ball into the box from | :02:31. | :02:47. | |
Blaise Matuidi. I wonder when Didier Deschamps will | :02:48. | :03:01. | |
decide to play the last card are vulnerable. -- available. He surely | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
will at some point. I think so. Martial would be the obvious call | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
with his ability to go past people. It's a horrible fall from Eder, the | :03:12. | :03:49. | |
former Swansea striker. Blaise Matuidi is apologising, but it won't | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
stop him from getting a booking. We're going to see this now from the | :03:54. | :03:58. | |
Portuguese now. They'll take their time, stay on the floor. Miss Tweedy | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
has done nothing wrong, he's stopped, -- Matuidi. It's not a | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
booking. Tried to make sure that the collision didn't happen. | :04:14. | :04:27. | |
Pepe on the ball and he'll take as long as he likes about it. | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
I've been really impressed with Nani. His fitness levels, strength, | :04:36. | :04:44. | |
variation in his play, sometimes spinning, sometimes coming to feet. | :04:45. | :04:45. | |
Really good. Lost by Cedric, who is now chasing | :04:46. | :05:02. | |
Coman. Coman is rather crudely bundled over by William Carvalho. | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
That was just a case of stop him at all costs. The cost is a card. You | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
hear it said a lot by former players, it's a clever one. Cynical, | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
but needed. Stop the momentum, stop the flow. | :05:20. | :05:29. | |
Griezmann is coming back to take this free kick. | :05:30. | :05:38. | |
Griezmann is still not making his way into the box. | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
Matuidi's energy levels have been absolutely brilliant. He's been | :05:48. | :06:10. | |
nonstop. Thierry Audel about him in the studio -- Thierry talked about | :06:11. | :06:24. | |
him. Couldn't stop the corner, it crossed the line. Fernando Santos is | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
taking issue with that call. I think it did. | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
Certainly did. France corner. 10th minute of the first half of extra | :06:37. | :06:45. | |
time. Another one successfully repelled by | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
the Portuguese back line. Koscielny was caught. Griezmann | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
tries to play Gignac in. He can't win the corner. He was | :07:01. | :07:28. | |
trying to play it off the shins of his opponent. I think it is a | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
corner. It is. He looked frustrated with himself. He'd beaten him at one | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
point and then he tried to beat him again. Koscielny is battling on. He | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
took a real whack as he slipped to poke the ball to a team-mate to keep | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
the pressing going. Trying to attack this, but well over him and it went | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
past everyone. The crowd not happy. Griezmann has not had a night, he's | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
had a tournament, but a stinker tonight. He's not been up to his | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
normal standard. I wouldn't say a stinker. I think it's been hard for | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
him in a congested area off the pitch where he likes to get on the | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
ball. The header was probably his big moment. He somehow missed the | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
target. But good players keep going. He's still got time to be the hero. | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
Has he dropped too deep? At times. I think at times he has. He wants to | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
get on the ball and make things happen. | :08:37. | :08:51. | |
A quizzical look from Moussa Sissoko. He's done OK, Gignac, since | :08:52. | :09:01. | |
he's come on. He's got good feet for a big man. We saw that when he put | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
Pepe on his farm. -- on his bottom. Portugal corner kick. Gignac is | :09:05. | :09:40. | |
charging back to be an extra defender. Here come Pepe and Fonte. | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
This is their best chance by a mile. Set play. Can Pepe or Fonte use | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
their power and their presence? Koscielny on Fonte. Umtiti pushed to | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
the floor by Pepe. Mark Clattenburg has had a | :10:01. | :10:14. | |
relatively comfortable night and he's handled it well. Just sort this | :10:15. | :10:22. | |
one out. The corner will finally come into the penalty area. | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
A lot of pushing and shoving, you can see where Quaresma is trying to | :10:30. | :10:37. | |
put it. It is a good delivery to just the right place. Lloris | :10:38. | :10:38. | |
couldn't hold it. Smothered by Joao Mario. Did so | :10:39. | :10:55. | |
well, Joao Mario. Tracked back. Great fitness levels. A chance for | :10:56. | :10:57. | |
Portugal. Lloris is quite happy to let that | :10:58. | :11:27. | |
curl away from him. This is the chance from Eder. A good header | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
down. Pogba trying to get himself into | :11:30. | :11:41. | |
advanced positions now. Half-time in extra time. As has been | :11:42. | :12:21. | |
the case with the extra time periods at Euro 2016, not a great deal | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
happened. We did have one big moment. That was for Portugal. But | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
somehow, for either team, it just will not go in. It's getting | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
increasingly hard to see how it will. Portugal, we know, are happy | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
for it to go to penalties. They will make one on a set play if they get | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
an opportunity, of course, they'll take that all day, but it's up to | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
the French, really, to move higher up the French as a team, as a unit, | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
press higher and for some mistakes from Portugal. I don't know whether | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
they've got the energy to do it. Griezmann looks tired now. He could | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
bring on Martial, who would give them pace. Is that something that | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
surprised you? The area was talking about it a while ago. There's 15 | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
minutes to go. Martial must be an option. It has surprised me. If you | :13:18. | :13:25. | |
want to win a game sometimes, you have to change the personnel and it | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
got a bit flat in the latter stages. He's got 15 minutes. Maybe now is as | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
good a time as any with the Portuguese defenders being tired. | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
Martial's dribbling ability, of course. Huddles are the order of the | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
day. Mark Clattenburg has blown his whistle. Both sets of players and | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
management teams will go into a circle. We can see Didier Deschamps | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
emphasising to his team exactly what he wants from them in the quarter of | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
an hour ahead. If we were to get a glimpse of the other side of the | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
halfway line, Cristiano Ronaldo has been giving the Portuguese battle | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
cry. When you talk about fitness levels of players, this is where it | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
becomes so important. Physically can you cope? Can you do it? And then | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
the mentality. Can you stay strong? Good decision-making? Staying on | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
your feet at the right times, not diving in, not giving the ball away | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
in city areas, and then that bit of magic in the final third. Can | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
somebody produce that memorable moment? Gignac has come as close as | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
anybody to scoring. I was going to say rattling the woodwork, but it | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
didn't rattle, it dribbled against the post. He did the hard bit really | :14:49. | :14:50. | |
well. Great bit of skill. There is just one more change left | :14:51. | :15:03. | |
for France if they want to use it. When did we last see a really good | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
final? I'm trying to think. We have another bit of incident. Joao | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
Moutinho, I think that Mark Clattenburg is waving away calls for | :15:19. | :15:29. | |
further punishment to Matuidi, who is already in the referee's book. | :15:30. | :15:30. | |
Didn't touch him. A free kick for Portugal, generally | :15:31. | :15:49. | |
right, generally when the boot goes that high. It absolutely right not | :15:50. | :15:51. | |
to card him. Fonte couldn't quite get Ronaldo | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
style and hang a time. The one that is warming up most | :15:59. | :16:21. | |
vigorously is Cabaye. I think Martial looks pretty annoyed. | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
Claims for handball, and gets it. Free kick for Portugal. A strike -- | :16:29. | :16:39. | |
one which can be struck. That is a yellow card for Koscielny. Is saying | :16:40. | :16:49. | |
it's not him. It wasn't. It was the hand of Eder. Well! What a | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
contentious call that is. Yes, but that's OK. It won't be for France, | :16:56. | :17:04. | |
if that applies in. That's true, but I understand how he got it wrong. -- | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
flies in. Struck differently, against the bar! | :17:08. | :17:26. | |
Caught everybody out! Looked to be all about Quaresma. What an effort. | :17:27. | :17:41. | |
He has beat Lloris. Actually, he is there, to be fair. His hand is | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
there. But it's a great effort, isn't it? | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
Twice, Portugal have hit the frame of the French goal. | :17:53. | :17:59. | |
Well, once each. It's a long game, isn't it? You had me thinking, | :18:00. | :18:13. | |
there. You can see why Dortmund have paid that money for him. Super | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
striker! Eder smashes Portugal to the verge | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
of glory. The Stade de France is stunned, but | :18:27. | :18:42. | |
for a huge pocket of Portuguese. He meant that. I was talking a couple | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
of minutes ago about magical moments. I certainly didn't expect | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
it to come from this man. But what a goal. We talk about strength, touch. | :18:56. | :19:03. | |
Why not? Smashes it into the bottom corner. What a goal! I'm not sure | :19:04. | :19:12. | |
what the celebration is about, but who cares? That could be the biggest | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
moment of his life. The French inquest begins, Fernando Santos is | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
the only body in the Portugal camp that managed to keep a lid on it. | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
Tears from Cristiano Ronaldo. They are almost there, just over ten | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
minutes. Sissoko is off, and finally Martial is on. Rescue mission for | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
France? Ice and urgency now from the French. -- I can see some urgency | :19:46. | :19:47. | |
from the French. Portugal goalkick. See how long Rui | :19:48. | :20:10. | |
Patricio takes with this one. Eder, bit part player. We have hardly seen | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
him this tournament. I tell you what, since he came on, he has been | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
a handful. Came to Swansea for about ?5 million from Braga at the start | :20:21. | :20:27. | |
of last season. Never hit the target for the Swans. He has only gone and | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
done it in the biggest game of all Europe. The biggest game of his | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
life. If it is to be the winner, it will be remembered for ever, he will | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
be in the history books. A player who plays in France, for Lille. | :20:44. | :21:00. | |
Koscielny goes in strongly and it is a France | :21:01. | :21:35. | |
Rui Patricio, what a good catch. Patricia is... Did you say Patricia? | :21:36. | :21:50. | |
I'm still in shock, honestly. What a shot that was. He's had a good | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
tournament, Portugal's goalkeeper, Sporting Lisbon's number one for | :21:56. | :22:04. | |
nearly a decade now. Maybe France will be ruing not doing things with | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
more pace in the game as a whole? Exactly that. They left a Martial on | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
the bench for too long. They were happy to pass the ball around. There | :22:13. | :22:15. | |
wasn't enough urgency in the play. Pepe decided he couldn't take the | :22:16. | :22:29. | |
chance and he has knocked it behind for a corner. It's about the first | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
time they haven't been on the same page. He's right, if you are not | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
sure, if you can't hear, get rid of the danger. | :22:38. | :22:46. | |
Here go Portugal, on the counter, with Joao Mario seeing Quaresma | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
across the field. Just over by Quaresma. | :22:55. | :23:12. | |
Ronaldo is kicking every ball. He looks pretty fit down there, the | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
moment. It is worse when you are in the dugout sometimes, when you have | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
come off, or you are a substitute, you want the team to do well and you | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
can't do a thing about it. You feel like a fan. Portugal angry, because | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
they felt sure that Eder was pushed. Steered away by William Carvalho. | :23:33. | :23:51. | |
He's played well, he's defended so well. Joao Mario has found an extra | :23:52. | :24:00. | |
gear from somewhere. He seemed spent not long ago. He has been hauled to | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
the floor by Pogba. The discipline, the balance, the tenacity of this | :24:07. | :24:09. | |
Portuguese side has been really impressive. They have written their | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
luck at times, you have to. Effort, commitment, every single one of | :24:18. | :24:24. | |
them. Eder, at the moment, getting the fans going. | :24:25. | :24:34. | |
Portugal, five and a bit minutes away from their first ever major | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
trophy. If anybody can get to that, Martial | :24:39. | :24:58. | |
can, but he is policed really smartly by Cedric. Good defending, | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
wasn't it? I said that so many times. Trusted his pace. Go on, try | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
and run me. I'm as quick as you. No chance. Portugal on the verge of | :25:09. | :25:17. | |
tournament history as well. Only two other teams have reached the | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
European Championship or World Cup final from finishing third in their | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
group. Remember, they were on the verge of going out when they drew | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
3-3 with Hungary in Lyon. They needed Ronaldo, three equalisers. | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
Gignac, took a touch from Raphael Guerreiro. He has overstretched. The | :25:37. | :25:55. | |
only two other teams to go into a final from third, Argentina, 1990, | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
lost to West Germany in the World Cup, Italy, four years later, lost | :25:59. | :26:07. | |
on penalties. I get that argument, but I would suggest in the group | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
that they were not the third worst team. They had enough to win four | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
matches. That is the point that Fernando Santos has made. He raised | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
eyebrows yesterday when the defensive trait came out again and | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
he said, well, we've had 36 shots on target, the same as France. Of | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
course, some of France's have gone in. Stats, you can use, manipulate | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
however you want as a coach or player. The simple fact is, you have | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
to find a way to win. They have done that. Nobody gave them a chance | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
against Croatia, they have found a way. More than any team at this | :26:47. | :26:53. | |
tournament, they will not be beaten. They like defending, you can see | :26:54. | :27:00. | |
that. They really do. Glamour faces are all French -- glum. They've got | :27:01. | :27:13. | |
to get him back on the pitch, injured or not. Just needs to put | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
one foot in front of the other. I think it is cramped, of some sought. | :27:18. | :27:28. | |
The noise level has just risen, on Ronaldo's command. Gestures towards | :27:29. | :27:39. | |
the Portugal funds. Free kick, Portugal again. Another chance to | :27:40. | :27:45. | |
eat up a few more valuable seconds. Ronaldo was shouting, get on the | :27:46. | :27:52. | |
pitch. He is bang on, stop messing around, get back on the air. | :27:53. | :27:59. | |
Ronaldo, forcing Raphael Guerreiro back onto the field. Well, he has | :28:00. | :28:09. | |
done his bit, without doing his bit. He knows that it's not all about | :28:10. | :28:15. | |
him, he knows that winning this for his country, his team-mates, for | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
himself, all of it. It means he will be remembered as one of the | :28:21. | :28:23. | |
greatest. They always talk about international players winning | :28:24. | :28:24. | |
trophies for their country. Koscielny. Quaresma has gone to | :28:25. | :28:42. | |
left-back, because Guerriero can't run. I'm not sure about that. | :28:43. | :28:55. | |
Ricardo Quaresma has burst down the field all of a sudden. And he has | :28:56. | :29:04. | |
support from Joao Mario. Sagna just about keeps France in the game. Just | :29:05. | :29:11. | |
about. They've actually been good in extra time, Portugal, the second | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
period. The French haven't got enough energy. | :29:18. | :29:26. | |
Joao Mario. He didn't want that. It did just go out. France throw. Last | :29:27. | :29:37. | |
throw for them. 20 seconds, there might be one minute added on, that | :29:38. | :29:38. | |
will be about all. If they win it, Ronaldo acknowledges | :29:39. | :29:54. | |
the effort of his team-mates tonight. | :29:55. | :30:00. | |
Two minutes. There is a groan from the Portuguese in the stands. | :30:01. | :30:09. | |
He'll take his time getting back up again. He's done that well. Strong, | :30:10. | :30:23. | |
keep hold of the ball. A nation that has played most games at the | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
European Championship without winning it. That's about to change. | :30:27. | :30:38. | |
I wonder how quickly Ronaldo will run on the pitch if they win it? His | :30:39. | :30:44. | |
left knee is heavily strapped, covered in bandage. They are calling | :30:45. | :30:50. | |
for full-time. Not yet. One more minute. Towering leap from Pepe. | :30:51. | :30:59. | |
He's been immense. What a performance. Helped onto Coman. This | :31:00. | :31:10. | |
could be the last chance for the host nation. Knocked down. Not! | :31:11. | :31:21. | |
Offside. The flag is up. I think it's gone for France now. You can | :31:22. | :31:29. | |
see it on the expression of Anthony Marshall. And the tired Laurent | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
Koscielny. -- Martial. Gignac strayed. Ronaldo thinks they've won | :31:35. | :31:43. | |
it. Rui Patricio will just get this is far downfield as he can. The hugs | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
have started on the Portugal bench. Look how excited Cristiano Ronaldo | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
is. All he's achieved, all the wealth he's accumulated. But he's | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
never done this. Rui Patricio collect a token yellow card. He'll | :32:01. | :32:06. | |
probably get the ref to sign it and give it to him later. He goes big. | :32:07. | :32:14. | |
Eder jumps and he celebrates because he's the man who won the European | :32:15. | :32:25. | |
Championship for Portugal! Their heartache as hosts 12 years ago is | :32:26. | :32:31. | |
now being played out by France. Portugal do to them what Greece did | :32:32. | :32:46. | |
in Lisbon in 2004. There are French tears, there are Portuguese tears, | :32:47. | :32:51. | |
for very different reasons. There is no sunshine ending in Paris. Pepe | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
has done so much, he can't keep it in. It has been a monumental effort | :32:57. | :33:03. | |
by Cristiano Ronaldo's team. I'm sure many of them thought it had | :33:04. | :33:07. | |
gone when he limped off. What an effort. I thought everybody did, | :33:08. | :33:14. | |
including myself. So much credit to the players on the pitch, they | :33:15. | :33:19. | |
defended with their lives, played with some quality on the break, | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
waited for their opportunity. Fitness levels were fantastic. What | :33:24. | :33:28. | |
a goal to win it. Superb. Credit to them. Portugal takes the prize. | :33:29. | :33:37. | |
(STUDIO) Portugal are the European champions of 2016. Ronaldo's tiers | :33:38. | :33:46. | |
of despair turned to tears of joy as he's hard by his team-mate and the | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
winning goal-scorer. The Portuguese fans go mad. A lot of them in Paris, | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
as we talked about before the game. But for the French, despair in front | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
of their own supporters. That's never happened before in a major | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
tournament. Didier Deschamps blows from possibly a hero to perhaps a | :34:06. | :34:09. | |
villain in the eyes of the French people. Sam Thomas, 14 competitive | :34:10. | :34:20. | |
games as the coach -- Santon. Not one single defeat. Allen, a | :34:21. | :34:23. | |
tremendous performance considering they lost their star man early on. | :34:24. | :34:29. | |
The way they stuck together, the way they responded to the bitter blow of | :34:30. | :34:33. | |
Ronaldo going off has to be room mired -- admired. The way they | :34:34. | :34:38. | |
defended and stuck together as a group. From that point of view, you | :34:39. | :34:46. | |
cannot take anything away from them. The goal Eder scored, he was a | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
threat when he scored, he held up the ball, brilliant piece of skill | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
on the edge of the box, he held off Koscielny and what a finish it was. | :34:56. | :34:59. | |
Down to the right of Lloris, he didn't have a chance. It's ironic | :35:00. | :35:05. | |
that they've won one game in 90 minutes out of seven and they are | :35:06. | :35:10. | |
champions. And Eder scoring the winning goal. 15 appearances for | :35:11. | :35:16. | |
Swansea and he had never scored a competitive goal for Portugal before | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
theirs. If you score one, you might as well make it important. Thierry | :35:21. | :35:27. | |
Henry, commiseration aims, obviously disappointing for France and their | :35:28. | :35:32. | |
football team. A sad day. I said before we have a lot of Portuguese | :35:33. | :35:35. | |
in France and we are going to hear about it for a very long time. You | :35:36. | :35:40. | |
have to give that team a lot of credit. First and foremost, well | :35:41. | :35:44. | |
done to Portugal. I was saying before the game that you make sure | :35:45. | :35:50. | |
and win it. But we have a team again. People might wonder why | :35:51. | :35:54. | |
Martial didn't come on, why this and why that. When people were brave, we | :35:55. | :36:04. | |
were number nine. Eder made a difference because he's a striker. | :36:05. | :36:11. | |
He turned Koscielny inside out and scored. But listen, I said it | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
before, I didn't want it to be the tournament of Nemesis and tournament | :36:18. | :36:23. | |
first time you beat your nemesis. It turned out to be exactly that. | :36:24. | :36:29. | |
Having said that, I repeat, you can only win the tournament if you have | :36:30. | :36:34. | |
a good team. You can only win it as a team. Perfect example, Ronaldo | :36:35. | :36:39. | |
comes out and they still win it. Maybe that gave them a lift. When | :36:40. | :36:44. | |
you lose a big guy like that, you think let's do it for him, let's be | :36:45. | :36:54. | |
resilient. Sometimes that gets teams together. When you go against ten | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
men, it galvanises them and they have something to cling onto, they | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
don't have to attack you. This Portuguese team, from the word go, | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
they were comfortable, happy, to sit back and soak up pressure with the | :37:08. | :37:12. | |
likes of Ronaldo and Nani on the counter to score goals. Going down | :37:13. | :37:16. | |
to ten men, I didn't see that being a problem for them because they were | :37:17. | :37:21. | |
sitting back anyway. You can see the hurt. I've been in finals, we'll | :37:22. | :37:27. | |
have, where you've lost. The feelings you go through, IFS, buts, | :37:28. | :37:37. | |
maybes. These guys... When you saw Ronaldo acting on the side of the | :37:38. | :37:44. | |
field, we were saying... It's like a movie, the Ronaldo movie. He's the | :37:45. | :37:49. | |
lead actor. He has the supporting role, director... He's in charge | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
given when he's not player. Before the game, you say let's have no | :37:56. | :37:59. | |
regrets. I think the France team will have because they didn't play | :38:00. | :38:03. | |
well. I know they still had two or three good chances to win, but they | :38:04. | :38:08. | |
didn't play well. We didn't see the energy, we didn't see the pace of | :38:09. | :38:14. | |
passing from Payet, from Griezmann, from Pogba. There was definitely | :38:15. | :38:17. | |
something missing tonight from that French team. Subdued. It seemed so | :38:18. | :38:25. | |
one paced. There was no thrust in this team. We were talking about it | :38:26. | :38:33. | |
off air. There was a weird rhythm in the second half and into extra time. | :38:34. | :38:40. | |
It was only going to suit Portugal. It can only help them to win the | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
game and it did. Ronaldo preening a little bit, getting ready for the | :38:46. | :38:49. | |
presentation, that magical moment. He's put his shirt back on, which is | :38:50. | :38:55. | |
something. You saw the Portuguese fans celebrating there. This is how | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
the victory was received in Lisbon. This is the fan park there. It's | :39:00. | :39:06. | |
their first tournament successful stop when you saw the name of | :39:07. | :39:09. | |
Portugal being etched onto the trophy for the first time... A | :39:10. | :39:15. | |
population of 10 million. Hugely competitive football nation, they | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
get a semifinal after semifinal and that fella deserves to be thrown up | :39:20. | :39:22. | |
in the air. What a performance from the coach. He had a successful time | :39:23. | :39:29. | |
with Greece before the Portuguese appointed him. Very experienced. | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
Cute, clever. You have to say well done because they've got a way of | :39:35. | :39:38. | |
playing and what they say to the opposition is come and beat us, | :39:39. | :39:43. | |
break us down. We're going to rely on a piece of brilliance or a set | :39:44. | :39:47. | |
piece, that's the way they play. Teams haven't been able to do that | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
with them. You have to say well done to the coach. If you go back to the | :39:53. | :39:57. | |
qualifiers, they didn't start well. Bento went into an argument with | :39:58. | :40:01. | |
Ricardo Carvalho and some of the older guys in the squad. The first | :40:02. | :40:06. | |
thing that Fernando Santos did was bring them back. Especially Ricardo | :40:07. | :40:11. | |
Carvalho. He said I need experience in the team and especially at the | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
back. That's why he started with Ricardo Carvalho in the tournament. | :40:16. | :40:20. | |
You can see what experience can do in a big tournament. That's down to | :40:21. | :40:24. | |
him. He was getting criticised, I also said that the beginning after | :40:25. | :40:29. | |
three draws in the group stage, maybe they don't deserve to go | :40:30. | :40:33. | |
through. But with the new rules, you have to give them their respect. | :40:34. | :40:39. | |
Well done to Fernando Santos and Portugal. Mark Clattenburg had a | :40:40. | :40:42. | |
really good game, although he missed one handball. By and large she had a | :40:43. | :40:50. | |
decent game. I think the officials right throughout the tournament have | :40:51. | :40:56. | |
been excellent. Agreed. Mark Clattenburg got one decision wrong | :40:57. | :41:00. | |
tonight, but other than that they've been brilliant. Looking back on | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
Portugal, 20 years, they had the golden generation of rouleur Rui | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
Costa, Luis Figo and more and they didn't get over the line. It goes | :41:10. | :41:13. | |
back to the thing about a team. Better players as individuals that | :41:14. | :41:21. | |
time, but this is a close-knit, well drilled team with a strategy they | :41:22. | :41:27. | |
all buy into. That's a powerful thing to have. Nice sportsmanship, | :41:28. | :41:30. | |
the Portuguese players giving the French players around of applause. | :41:31. | :41:36. | |
It's always difficult to single out a player, or two or three, because | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
they played well as a team, but I have to single out Raphael Guerreiro | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
tonight. What a game he had. I don't know if it's because he born -- he | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
was born in France and grew up in France and if he had something to | :41:50. | :41:54. | |
prove today, but he played ever so well. You can name Pepe, Fonte, | :41:55. | :42:01. | |
Carvalho... Patricio, the goalkeeper, as well. I think | :42:02. | :42:08. | |
Guerreiro as man of the match. That is a lonely walk. A lot of stops | :42:09. | :42:14. | |
anyway -- steps anyway, but when you're not picking up the trophy, | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
that's the moralising. I feel for Griezmann because I was there in | :42:20. | :42:23. | |
2006, the final of the Champions League and the final of the World | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
Cup, back to back. It's the worst thing that can happen in the game. | :42:29. | :42:33. | |
You almost say sometimes, if you have to choose, you want to lose in | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
the semifinal. He looked shattered tonight, absolutely shattered. Have | :42:39. | :42:44. | |
any of you got your run as a medals? I haven't. They got thrown away. I | :42:45. | :42:50. | |
don't know where they are. Koscielny didn't even put it on. You don't | :42:51. | :42:56. | |
want it, why would you put that on your mantelpiece? I know what it | :42:57. | :43:00. | |
means to Pat, being in the changing room for eight or nine years with | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
him. France was is everything. Disappointing at the World Cup... It | :43:06. | :43:11. | |
makes it worse losing in front of your home supporters. The host | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
nation, in a final. I'm not trying to find any excuses for that team, | :43:17. | :43:22. | |
maybe they didn't play the final people were expecting, but I'll | :43:23. | :43:27. | |
repeat, we have a team again. Let's not forget about what Didier | :43:28. | :43:30. | |
Deschamps did and what that team has done. They didn't finish on a high | :43:31. | :43:35. | |
note and make history, but with what we went through as a country in | :43:36. | :43:41. | |
terms of events off the field and events back in the day on the field, | :43:42. | :43:48. | |
well done. What about Didier Deschamps? His legacy, what will | :43:49. | :43:56. | |
that be? I think they will keep him. He has done well. People why -- | :43:57. | :44:02. | |
people will question why this, why that, when you don't win, but I | :44:03. | :44:05. | |
still think he's the man for the job and let's see if we can qualify for | :44:06. | :44:09. | |
the World Cup. The Portuguese players are going up to receive | :44:10. | :44:14. | |
their medals and of course the European Championship trophy. The | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
self-proclaimed ugly ducklings have turned into swans. Guy Mowbray, all | :44:19. | :44:20. | |
yours. There can rarely have been a more | :44:21. | :44:29. | |
determined bunch of boys than these ones. Portuguese men of war, all of | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
them. Masterminded by Fernando Santos. He has coached all of | :44:34. | :44:44. | |
Portugal's tres grandes, Sporting Lisbon, Benfica, Porto. Varying | :44:45. | :44:52. | |
degrees of success. That could have been one of the saddest sights of | :44:53. | :44:58. | |
the tournament, but even Ronaldo's bandaged knee is a thing of | :44:59. | :45:01. | |
celebration tonight. So shattered they can barely climb the steps. But | :45:02. | :45:07. | |
I am sure there will be a burst of energy when they get to the top. It | :45:08. | :45:10. | |
brings back so many memories, thinking about picking up a trophy. | :45:11. | :45:15. | |
It is the ultimate in football. This is international level, for your | :45:16. | :45:18. | |
country, something very few players have experienced. You can see in | :45:19. | :45:26. | |
their faces, it's an amazing story for a team that are not fancied | :45:27. | :45:30. | |
before the tournament, aren't fancied during it, even. You said | :45:31. | :45:35. | |
the word, team. We were led to believe this was a squad that was | :45:36. | :45:39. | |
all about one man. I think they have shown tonight that they possess | :45:40. | :45:49. | |
character, quality, what Ronaldo does is give them the icing on the | :45:50. | :45:56. | |
cake. People won't remember if he played in the finals, they will | :45:57. | :45:59. | |
remember he was the captain of the team that won the first trophy. An | :46:00. | :46:19. | |
unlikely hero, Eder. A winning goal, thumped past Hugo Lloris. Credit to | :46:20. | :46:25. | |
most of the French supporters, to see that trophy, named after one of | :46:26. | :46:32. | |
their own, a Secretary General of Uefa, his brainchild. Isn't it great | :46:33. | :46:37. | |
to have a hero, rather than a villain? Somebody scoring a | :46:38. | :46:41. | |
wonderful goal in extra time, to win a tournament like this, compared to | :46:42. | :46:45. | |
somebody missing a penalty? Ronaldo not the leading man, this time. But | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
he still gets up to receive the plaudits for the best supporting | :46:51. | :46:54. | |
role. He played it to perfection, down on the touchline, as his | :46:55. | :47:00. | |
team-mates did it for him and for Portugal out on the field. Perennial | :47:01. | :47:08. | |
semifinalists. They always seem to make the last four, but only reached | :47:09. | :47:12. | |
one final before and it all went sour on their own turf, just as it | :47:13. | :47:16. | |
has done for France tonight. All of that is forgotten now. Every one of | :47:17. | :47:23. | |
the squad, unlike the French, of course, only too happy to get those | :47:24. | :47:27. | |
medals around their necks. Rui Patricio has been a rock in the | :47:28. | :47:32. | |
Portugal goal, a goal so well protected by Fonte, Pepe and | :47:33. | :47:42. | |
company. Resolute defence. With a goal or two in there at the other | :47:43. | :47:49. | |
end. The trophy has a new name on it. First-time European champions. | :47:50. | :47:54. | |
Kings of Europe. Portugal! There will be a party tonight in | :47:55. | :48:13. | |
Portugal, not Paris. Portugal the winners, lifting the | :48:14. | :48:44. | |
trophy. Huge emotion on the faces of those players. They deserve that. | :48:45. | :48:50. | |
What a moment for them, what a moment for that country. Overall, | :48:51. | :48:56. | |
such a durable team. Ultimately, they have come out as winners, Alan? | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
That's what it's about. They set their system up, as I said, they | :49:02. | :49:04. | |
said to everyone, this is how we are going to play, you know we're going | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
to play this way, come and beat us, break us down. Not many kinks could | :49:09. | :49:12. | |
do it. Not the best game of football we have ever seen, often the case in | :49:13. | :49:14. | |
a final. A cracking goal to win it? Big, strong, skilful, held Koscielny | :49:15. | :49:30. | |
off. Turns him, get off me! The best part is that, the finish is sublime. | :49:31. | :49:36. | |
Lloris has no chance. And he is a top goalkeeper. He's the type of | :49:37. | :49:40. | |
striker I didn't enjoy playing against. He wants contact, elbows | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
and kneecaps everywhere. But he is somebody that is aggressive, he | :49:46. | :49:49. | |
wants to get goals, because it can. Sometimes it looks scruffy and he | :49:50. | :49:53. | |
doesn't make it come off, but he always wants to get the ball and | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
take it and engage in a battle. U of what it means to these guys, tears | :49:58. | :50:02. | |
of joy. Who was called upon, he came on, every ball. He had one | :50:03. | :50:11. | |
opportunity to score. I don't even know who it was an opportunity to | :50:12. | :50:15. | |
score. He pushed him away, what a finish. There was a moment in the | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
game when you think it is not going to beat France's night. If there was | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
one, it was probably Gignac when he hit the post? Give him a lot of | :50:25. | :50:28. | |
credit, you don't see a lot of people doing that to Pepe. You | :50:29. | :50:38. | |
know... He scuffed it, that is what you will see on the replay, that is | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
what allows the ball to go over the leg. But we were talking about | :50:44. | :50:58. | |
dinking the ball. But he's not Messi? It's not about doing it, it's | :50:59. | :51:02. | |
about thinking about it at that moment. Griezmann, the Golden Boot, | :51:03. | :51:06. | |
twice as many goals as everybody else. But did he have a couple of | :51:07. | :51:11. | |
opportunities, headers, but it didn't happen for him? Not his | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
night? It wasn't his night. Yes, you just mentioned that he has the | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
Golden Boot, he has probably been the player of the tournament. But he | :51:21. | :51:23. | |
will be thinking about these for the next few weeks. Especially that one? | :51:24. | :51:29. | |
Yes, that is a big opportunity for him. | :51:30. | :51:37. | |
There is confirmation of the Golden Boot winner, Griezmann, with six. | :51:38. | :51:43. | |
Ronaldo, second, with three. More assists than the other players. | :51:44. | :51:50. | |
Another thing, you know, I am really upset for Antoine Griezmann. I think | :51:51. | :51:57. | |
if France had won, on a personal point of view, he would not have the | :51:58. | :52:01. | |
Golden Boot. We now know where that ball is going to go. | :52:02. | :52:07. | |
Four weeks of football, 108 goals and Portugal are the winners. | :52:08. | :52:15. | |
After months of fearing what might happen at the Euros, at last, the | :52:16. | :52:26. | |
football started. France, the hosts, kickers off. France were flying. | :52:27. | :52:34. | |
Payet! What a wonderful goal! Some couldn't look, others didn't need | :52:35. | :52:41. | |
to. Fans under the spotlight. For every sinner 1000 Saints. The green | :52:42. | :52:47. | |
and white Army made friends everywhere. We will never tire of | :52:48. | :53:03. | |
the man on Fire. Others were smouldering. The Welsh beast not | :53:04. | :53:12. | |
beaten. Massive strops, flimsy strips, impressive dips. One nation | :53:13. | :53:19. | |
proved that size isn't everything. Their thing became the thing. The | :53:20. | :53:23. | |
volcano erupted. Some of the big boys were | :53:24. | :53:35. | |
struggling. No one wanted to leave early. | :53:36. | :53:40. | |
The Republic of Ireland have scored! The place is going mad. Some could | :53:41. | :53:57. | |
not stop the slide. Trousers, wowsers, Ledley, Dudley. Some found | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
it hard to sit down. Some watch the tournament pass them by. Some dug | :54:02. | :54:09. | |
deep. Some, a little too deep. England faced another dentist's | :54:10. | :54:12. | |
chair. The teeth pulling might take some time to heal. Spiky. Crikey. | :54:13. | :54:24. | |
Blondie. One way or another. Not even the great Italian could hold | :54:25. | :54:33. | |
the Germans. He has blazed it, after an exaggerated run of! The masters | :54:34. | :54:37. | |
were frail, but they didn't falter. They were born this way. Enter the | :54:38. | :54:47. | |
Dragon. Fearless, faultless. Always in the frame. He came, he soared, he | :54:48. | :54:54. | |
conquered. The hosts also had a hero. Nobody could stop him. Not | :54:55. | :55:04. | |
even the unstoppables. The hosts stayed for the final dance, but | :55:05. | :55:05. | |
their guests were the last to leave. It has been quite a few weeks. You | :55:06. | :55:16. | |
have voted for your goal of the tournament. You voted in large | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
numbers. These are the top three you came up with. Robson-Kanu, against | :55:22. | :55:26. | |
Belgium. Shaqiri, against Poland, Ronaldo against Hungary. It is up to | :55:27. | :55:30. | |
you three to decide which one of those three is going to win. I'm | :55:31. | :55:37. | |
going to go for Robson-Kanu. He told the Belgian defenders to get out of | :55:38. | :55:44. | |
the stadium. Johan Cruyff, composure, but net. Robson-Kanu, | :55:45. | :55:51. | |
control, composure. Well, this is irrelevant. Shaqiri. Just the | :55:52. | :55:59. | |
technique? Cracking goal. Let's see the winner one more time. | :56:00. | :56:06. | |
Good run from Aaron Ramsey. From Robson-Kanu. What a turn! What I | :56:07. | :56:18. | |
goal! What a moment from Wales! Robson-Kanu with what might be the | :56:19. | :56:21. | |
goal of his life. It was certainly one of the moments of the | :56:22. | :56:25. | |
tournament. What do we make of the tournament? New format, more teams | :56:26. | :56:29. | |
in it. Pretty negative, low goal-scoring ratio. | :56:30. | :56:34. | |
Undoubtedly, the quality levels were disappointing. Teams coming not | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
necessarily to win, just not get beat, not coming out and... Not | :56:40. | :56:45. | |
making a better spectacle. On one hand, we can say the quality has | :56:46. | :56:49. | |
been a step down, if not a couple of steps down. But then we have seen | :56:50. | :56:54. | |
great scenes with fans who never thought they would go to a | :56:55. | :56:56. | |
tournament like this and they have been able to have moments like | :56:57. | :56:59. | |
Iceland against England, which was great. At the end of the day, you | :57:00. | :57:04. | |
want to see quality players, the best players playing in the best | :57:05. | :57:07. | |
teams. We didn't get as much about us we would have liked. Is the game | :57:08. | :57:13. | |
a little bit negative at the moment, Thierry, is there too much fear? | :57:14. | :57:19. | |
Safety first? Yes, if you allow the third to go through in the group | :57:20. | :57:23. | |
stage, teams know if they win one game, they draw three, they can go | :57:24. | :57:29. | |
through. Teams don't go forward. Uefa say they are happy with it and | :57:30. | :57:32. | |
they think it is the way ahead, they might even bring in more teams? The | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
team that finished third has just won the tournament. And happy to see | :57:37. | :57:41. | |
teams doing well, Albania winning a game, Iceland doing what they did. | :57:42. | :57:44. | |
But I think the new rule killed the group stage games. Personally. But | :57:45. | :57:52. | |
for five or six games, the standard has been poor. As I said, at | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
full-time, it has been pretty dull and boring a lot of the time. A lot | :57:58. | :58:01. | |
of the excitement has come from the smaller teams, Wales, Iceland, | :58:02. | :58:06. | |
Portugal were not fancied. Uefa have got what they wanted, financial | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
reasons, it has been a success. But I think the quality has been poor. | :58:11. | :58:18. | |
Your personal highlights? Rio? Wales. The journey they went on was | :58:19. | :58:25. | |
fantastic. The unity they showed, the fans behind them, the | :58:26. | :58:30. | |
unbelievable unity that they showed with each other. It's a great story. | :58:31. | :58:35. | |
It is something that will live on for a long time and their fans will | :58:36. | :58:40. | |
live through that for years to come. Thierry, as regards the host nation? | :58:41. | :58:46. | |
Put on a great show? It's not so much on the field, it is about how | :58:47. | :58:55. | |
the tournament went, colour, joy, happiness. That is what we wanted at | :58:56. | :59:00. | |
the beginning. There was fear, and nothing happened. On the whole, it | :59:01. | :59:05. | |
was a successful tournament. The fans, but for the incidents with | :59:06. | :59:09. | |
England and Russian fans, other than that, they have had a fantastic | :59:10. | :59:13. | |
time. They've enjoyed it. The Wales fans, the Irish fans, great scenes. | :59:14. | :59:19. | |
Thank you all very much indeed. It has been an absolute pleasure being | :59:20. | :59:23. | |
with you over these last few weeks. There it is. Portugal have won their | :59:24. | :59:32. | |
first major tournament with a Eder from outside the box. | :59:33. | :00:16. | |
Sturridge scores! # We could be heroes, just for one | :00:17. | :00:53. | |
day... Gareth McAuley, for Northern Ireland! Cristiano Ronaldo! | :00:54. | :01:10. | |
Gareth Bale, with another wicked delivery! | :01:11. | :01:29. | |
England's embarrassment is Iceland's ecstasy. | :01:30. | :01:54. | |
A great chance for Griezmann! A little bit of Marseille magic. | :01:55. | :02:31. | |
Tonight is a time for heroes. Ronaldo. He gone, his game is done. | :02:32. | :02:45. | |
A super strike! Here's the man that has won the European Championship. | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
The kings of are Portugal. Thank you. Thanks very much. | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
I've got to be at the top of my game, you know. | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
Stay focused, keep my feet on the ground, just keep grafting. | :03:01. | :03:05. |