Portugal v France

:00:07. > :00:10.# Je revois la ville en fete et en delire

:00:11. > :00:14.# Suffoquant sous le soleil et sous la joie

:00:15. > :00:17.# Et j'entends dans la musique les cris, les rires

:00:18. > :00:21.# Qui eclatent et rebondissent autour de moi

:00:22. > :00:27.# Emportes par la foule qui nous traine

:00:28. > :00:29.# Nous entraine # L'un contre l'autre

:00:30. > :00:34.# Emportes par la foule qui nous traine

:00:35. > :00:44.# Et perdue parmi ces gens qui me bousculent

:00:45. > :01:03.# Quand soudain, je me retourne, il se recule,

:01:04. > :01:17.France take on Portugal in the final.

:01:18. > :01:55.It's the morning of the Euro 2016 final. I'm up, ready and buzzing.

:01:56. > :02:59.Welcome to Paris for the final of Euro 2016. The whole of France has

:03:00. > :03:03.come to a halt to cheer on its team against a Portugal side featuring

:03:04. > :03:08.one of the greatest player of all time, Cristiano Ronaldo. France's

:03:09. > :03:14.fifth major tournament final and their third on home soil after

:03:15. > :03:18.winning the Euros in 1984 and the World Cup in 1998. Portugal have

:03:19. > :03:25.only ever reached one final, losing to Greece in Euro 2004. 80,000

:03:26. > :03:30.people will pack out the Stade de France. Another 90,000 have gathered

:03:31. > :03:34.in the fan park just outside our studio in the shadow of the Eiffel

:03:35. > :03:41.Tower. It's quite a site out there right now. The sage -- the stage is

:03:42. > :03:45.set. Alan Shearer, Rio Ferdinand and a man who won the World Cup and

:03:46. > :03:50.European Championship with France, Thierry Henry. A total of 18 major

:03:51. > :03:55.tournament appearances in the studio tonight. This must bring back a few

:03:56. > :04:01.memories of your triumph here a few years ago. What does this mean to

:04:02. > :04:05.France right now? We already talked about November and the terrorist

:04:06. > :04:10.attacks, the disconnection with the fans and the team. For me, I want

:04:11. > :04:14.them to experience winning a tournament of that magnitude at

:04:15. > :04:22.home. I had the opportunity to win it away and at home. Not the Euros,

:04:23. > :04:25.but the World Cup at home and the Euros away. When you win a

:04:26. > :04:30.tournament at home, nothing beats that. Nothing in the world beats

:04:31. > :04:36.that in terms of football. It brings everyone together, you can see how

:04:37. > :04:40.everyone is happy, you can see the joy, the country were celebrating

:04:41. > :04:45.for two or three months. It's amazing to see that. Believe me or

:04:46. > :04:55.not, I never actually saw that like that. I never wanted to look at

:04:56. > :05:00.them. Those guys right now are making me relive those moments.

:05:01. > :05:06.Thanks for that. Magical pictures of those scenes and it will be the same

:05:07. > :05:11.tonight. So many people behind us, it's staggering. I'm not sure this

:05:12. > :05:15.side is as good as 98, but they are in the final nevertheless. They've

:05:16. > :05:20.been the most entertaining team. They've played six games so far and

:05:21. > :05:25.in five of those they've scored two or more goals. They have entertained

:05:26. > :05:31.us. Their big players have turned up and they Griezmann, Payet, Lloris is

:05:32. > :05:34.top class and was in the semifinal. They've been the best team, they've

:05:35. > :05:39.got the top goal-scorer and they deserve to be where they are.

:05:40. > :05:43.Portugal are tough to beat, they are dog-eared and they have two former

:05:44. > :05:49.team-mates of yours, Ronaldo and Nani. Ronaldo mention this is the

:05:50. > :05:53.most dogged team and close-knit team he's been with and it's proven in

:05:54. > :05:56.this tournament. It brings into question the format of this

:05:57. > :06:04.tournament. They finished third in their group and hadn't won a game...

:06:05. > :06:08.They won one game in 90 minutes. They've improved steadily, but they

:06:09. > :06:11.are not pleasing on the eye. But when you have Ronaldo, you have a

:06:12. > :06:17.chance and they know how to get through games. We aren't the only

:06:18. > :06:22.ones who want a flutter on this game. There's been a moth

:06:23. > :06:28.infestation at the Stade de France! They are all over the place. They

:06:29. > :06:32.left the lights on last night and it's not been well received.

:06:33. > :06:37.Thousands of the things. They are currently trying to do something

:06:38. > :06:41.about it. They need footballs and mothballs this evening. Hopefully

:06:42. > :06:46.they will have cleared them before they kicked off. Amazingly, France

:06:47. > :06:50.have won their last ten games against Portugal, dating back 41

:06:51. > :06:54.years. This will be the fourth meeting between the teams at a major

:06:55. > :06:56.tournament. The previous three were all semifinals and the French

:06:57. > :07:38.triumphed on each occasion. Henry has won a penalty! The referee

:07:39. > :07:46.pointing straight to the spot. Thierry Henry was fouled. Zidane

:07:47. > :07:55.knows exactly what he's doing and he puts France ahead from the penalty

:07:56. > :08:00.spot after 32 minutes. The team everybody wrote off after they won

:08:01. > :08:13.the tournament in 1998 is certainly right back in business.

:08:14. > :08:22.France haven't lost a Portugal for 25 years.

:08:23. > :08:32.Nuno Gomes might not be tired now. Portugal have taken the lead! Nuno

:08:33. > :08:41.Gomes again. Henry coming in fast side. Thierry Henry! Goal for

:08:42. > :08:46.France! The equaliser. It looks to me as though it's a penalty. He

:08:47. > :09:14.scores! France are in the final. Here in the sparkling Mediterranean

:09:15. > :09:20.port of Marseille, the Stade Velodrome is packed with 55,000

:09:21. > :09:24.capacity. A superb setting for this European Championship semifinal.

:09:25. > :09:33.It's a goal! The young left back has scored. Jordao! It's there! Jordao

:09:34. > :09:39.for Portugal! They've equalised! Jordao is hanging at the back post.

:09:40. > :09:48.It's there! Jordao again! Blading again. -- played in. A chance the

:09:49. > :09:59.platter need and it's a goal for France. 2-2. Tigana. Tigana. Platter

:10:00. > :10:04.need! Goal! -- Platini. Platter leave for France with a minute to

:10:05. > :10:12.go. 3-2. I've not seen a match like this in years. The captain of France

:10:13. > :10:14.receives the cup, the winner in the semifinal, a goal in the final. What

:10:15. > :10:25.else can you do? I wonder what happened to Michel

:10:26. > :10:29.Platini! The current French team are soaking up the atmosphere at the

:10:30. > :10:35.Stade de France. It was the venue where France beat Brazil 3-0 in the

:10:36. > :10:41.1998 World Cup final. No late dramas with the Portuguese Ronaldo tonight.

:10:42. > :10:45.Let's take a look at how both teams line up. Portugal goalkeeper

:10:46. > :10:50.Patricio has only conceded once in five knockout games at the European

:10:51. > :10:54.Championship. Pepe returned in one of two changes. He missed the

:10:55. > :11:00.semifinal with a five problem but replaces Alves. The other change

:11:01. > :11:04.sees William Carvalho Ripley -- recalled with Danilo reduced the

:11:05. > :11:09.bench. Sanches will be the youngest man to play in a European

:11:10. > :11:23.Championship final at 18, broken the record set by Ronaldo in 2004.

:11:24. > :11:25.Ronaldo is now 31 and could become the oldest player to score in a

:11:26. > :11:28.European Championship final. France are unchanged. Again captained by

:11:29. > :11:33.Hugo Lloris. Sagna, Koscielny and Evra boast 177 caps between them,

:11:34. > :11:37.but Umtiti is playing only his third international game. There's no

:11:38. > :11:44.recall for can with Matuidi and Pogba the central midfielder 's. --

:11:45. > :11:49.Kante. Griezmann plays his 70th game of the season, which is more than

:11:50. > :11:53.any other player in the top five European leagues. Giroud leads the

:11:54. > :11:57.line and has ten goals in his last ten starts for France.

:11:58. > :12:02.It's a big night for all the players, Rio, but a special I will

:12:03. > :12:07.be on Paul Pogba, a player you know well from his youth at Manchester

:12:08. > :12:12.United and may well return to Manchester United for a lot of

:12:13. > :12:17.money. Potentially ?100 million, 22. Huge potential. The thing that stood

:12:18. > :12:21.out for me when I first met him other than his ability was his

:12:22. > :12:26.personality. He wants to be the best. He started very anxious, he

:12:27. > :12:32.wanted to prove himself. He wanted to prove worthy of the hype. He's

:12:33. > :12:36.grown into this tournament. He's overplaying here because he wants to

:12:37. > :12:40.show people he's got the talent. Didier Deschamps has to take the

:12:41. > :12:45.talent -- credit because he's putting in a deeper rule and you can

:12:46. > :12:54.see his tools. Is got great range of passing. He looks more composed,

:12:55. > :12:57.he's got more time in that position and he's really grown in stature in

:12:58. > :13:04.this tournament and they rely on him in many areas. This is the icing on

:13:05. > :13:10.the cake. Teasing the young full-back. Beautiful feet. Six foot

:13:11. > :13:14.four, twinkle toes. He is the poster boy for this tournament. Griezmann

:13:15. > :13:18.has become that as well, but there's a lot of pressure on his young

:13:19. > :13:24.shoulders. Did you see that improvement in him from when he was

:13:25. > :13:28.a kid at Man United? Undoubtedly. There was not one player in the

:13:29. > :13:35.changing room who would have said no. Everybody knew him leaving was

:13:36. > :13:40.huge. Is he world-class yet? He's on the way to be world-class, he's not

:13:41. > :13:44.far. If we talk about the money, we all go well, but that's the price

:13:45. > :13:47.now if you want a player like that. What I like about him is the sign of

:13:48. > :13:53.intelligence when he knows what he has to do. When he plays for

:13:54. > :13:58.Juventus he's a bit higher. He knows what he has to do for that team.

:13:59. > :14:03.Holding perhaps isn't his forte, but he does it very well. 18-year-old

:14:04. > :14:11.Renato Sanches looks a real prospect. I love him. Energy, going

:14:12. > :14:14.forward, he controls the ball and he goes. That's what Portugal was

:14:15. > :14:18.lacking at the start of the tournament. He brings energy, he

:14:19. > :14:24.wants to go forward. He doesn't know what to do here, but he goes forward

:14:25. > :14:29.with his run. When you have a player in your team playing like that, the

:14:30. > :14:33.whole team goes forward with him. Look at this. He wants the ball,

:14:34. > :14:39.he's asking for the ball. He plays it and he goes for it. Not sure

:14:40. > :14:43.about the finish, but I'm sure about this finish! There was a little

:14:44. > :14:48.deflection, but it doesn't matter. He wants to go forward. Even there,

:14:49. > :14:53.you might say, stop running, what are you doing, but as a defender,

:14:54. > :15:00.when you see the ball going all the way, it gives people a breather.

:15:01. > :15:06.Ronaldo drags players to him, but this guy is dragging two or three

:15:07. > :15:10.out. It leaves space for people like Nani and Ronaldo. I watched the

:15:11. > :15:15.Wales game when he played. What impressed me most about him was in

:15:16. > :15:19.the last five minutes when basically the game was won, he had the option

:15:20. > :15:24.to Pastor Ronaldo and he didn't, he cut inside and went himself or stop

:15:25. > :15:26.when the superstar is demanding the ball, that tells me a lot. I bet he

:15:27. > :15:37.doesn't do it twice! Are you surprised that Kante isn't

:15:38. > :15:41.in the starting line-up? Not really. They want to keep the momentum

:15:42. > :15:45.going. I'm thinking about how Portugal is going to play, they are

:15:46. > :15:52.going to counter. And that is Kante's game. We will see. But I

:15:53. > :15:56.understand where Didier is coming from. I thought he might have had

:15:57. > :16:00.him in there, once or twice against the Germans they got in their easy

:16:01. > :16:05.and I thought he might have stiffened that up. The Stade de

:16:06. > :16:09.France is filling up. 45 minutes until kick-off. We can go to the

:16:10. > :16:18.side of the pitch to hear from Danny Murphy and Jason Mohammed. Well,

:16:19. > :16:23.isn't this a truly magical year -- evening. The Portuguese fans came

:16:24. > :16:27.into the stadium a full two hours before the players even arrived.

:16:28. > :16:35.They are in fantastic voice. When you look at the occasion,

:16:36. > :16:39.magnificent? I was lucky enough to be on the streets of Paris when they

:16:40. > :16:43.were in the semifinal, and that was incredible. But this is incredible,

:16:44. > :16:45.here and in the let outside the stadium. I haven't seen an

:16:46. > :16:52.atmosphere like this for a long time. What impressed you most about

:16:53. > :16:57.the semifinal against Germany? Their resilience, togetherness. They were

:16:58. > :17:00.dominating for long periods, they showed a hunger and desire to get

:17:01. > :17:07.the final. For me, they are favourites. Don't rule out the Magic

:17:08. > :17:12.man. A relatively poor tournament until the semifinal, but that's what

:17:13. > :17:16.he can do? The header was magical. What impressed me more was his

:17:17. > :17:19.workrate. Two or three times in the second half he was running back and

:17:20. > :17:23.winning the ball back for his team. I don't think we have said that too

:17:24. > :17:27.many times about him. He wants to win it, he's got the hopes of a

:17:28. > :17:32.nation on his shoulders. If anyone can, he can. Of course, if France

:17:33. > :17:38.win, I have a feeling that the Arc de Triomphe and chanced -- will be

:17:39. > :17:50.pretty full. The stadium might not be at full

:17:51. > :17:55.capacity, but the fan zone is. Manish Bhasin is in the heart of it.

:17:56. > :17:59.Welcome to the fan zone, 90,000 people have been crammed in here.

:18:00. > :18:03.Most of them are French fans, watching the big game against

:18:04. > :18:07.Portugal which will kick off in the next 45 minutes or so. This place

:18:08. > :18:10.has been open for all, free entry since the start of the tournament. 1

:18:11. > :18:14.million people have passed through the gates to watch games on the big

:18:15. > :18:20.screen, which measure about 400 square metres, the same size as a

:18:21. > :18:26.basketball court. This place here is probably the same size as a team

:18:27. > :18:32.football pitches. They are loving the BBC, as you can see. A perfect

:18:33. > :18:38.French evening, no better place, if you are not in the stadium, to watch

:18:39. > :18:42.the game. Battled on really well! I am not sure how money Portuguese

:18:43. > :18:45.fans have made it in there. Only the most optimistic would have bet on

:18:46. > :18:49.their team making the final after drawing the opening game with

:18:50. > :18:54.Iceland. Portugal only qualified from a group as one of the best

:18:55. > :18:58.third placed teams. The victory over Wales in the semifinal is the first

:18:59. > :19:00.time they had won a game in the tournament in 90 minutes. They are

:19:01. > :19:03.here, that is all matters. MUSIC: "Movin' On Up"

:19:04. > :19:05.by Primal Scream. Zoltan Gera with the shot and

:19:06. > :19:39.the goal! Comes to Cristiano

:19:40. > :19:51.Ronaldo! He surely has won this

:19:52. > :20:37.match for Portugal. Lewandowski's scored

:20:38. > :20:41.inside two minutes! And Portugal have done it,

:20:42. > :20:53.they're through to the semifinal! It's a Portugal side that hasn't

:20:54. > :20:56.been beaten in the tournament, yet hasn't actually won

:20:57. > :21:00.a game in 90 minutes. Here's Ronaldo once again and it's

:21:01. > :21:13.in by Nani. Maybe this is their, and their crown

:21:14. > :21:33.prince Cristiano's year. Unbeaten in 13 competitive matches

:21:34. > :21:39.under Fernando Santos, who calls his own team the ugly ducklings. I'm not

:21:40. > :21:45.sure Ronaldo would appreciate that, but you know what he means? They are

:21:46. > :21:48.gritty? Yes, it is hard to eulogise over them, but they are functional

:21:49. > :21:53.and efficient. They work hard and get men behind the ball, they make

:21:54. > :22:00.it difficult for opposing teams. The back four, four or five in midfield,

:22:01. > :22:06.and Ronaldo, everybody behind the ball, sitting deep. Ronaldo does his

:22:07. > :22:09.fair share of work, also. He is the first point of contact, closing

:22:10. > :22:14.everyone down. This is in the Wales game. Very similar to what we just

:22:15. > :22:18.saw. Men behind the ball again, trying to keep it tight, trying to

:22:19. > :22:25.keep it compact. Danny mentioned about Ronaldo, tracking back. He

:22:26. > :22:29.worked his socks off in this game. There were quite content to let

:22:30. > :22:33.Wales have the ball and tried to spray it around as much as they can.

:22:34. > :22:36.But when it goes into the midfield, they cannot allow this to happen

:22:37. > :22:41.tonight. They can't allow that space, like they have done. They

:22:42. > :22:47.will get punished, whether it is Griezmann, Pogba, Payet. They all

:22:48. > :22:51.know their jobs. They are good at it. Not great to watch, not

:22:52. > :22:54.entertaining. But when you play like that, in the hope that something

:22:55. > :22:58.magical comes from their superstar, like the header from Ronaldo, that

:22:59. > :23:03.is what they rely on. We all know about Ronaldo, but there was another

:23:04. > :23:09.player, quite an enigmatic soul, Nani. Has bags of ability, but

:23:10. > :23:12.sometimes disappoints? He has cut a frustrating figure at times of

:23:13. > :23:18.Manchester United. But in terms of natural ability, this kit has it

:23:19. > :23:23.all. Left and right feet, pace to die for, and his brave. He wants the

:23:24. > :23:28.ball. He has had a good few chances to score goals. He could have been

:23:29. > :23:31.one of the top goal-scorers. He is somebody who, if he got it all

:23:32. > :23:37.together, he would be one of the best players on the part. Why

:23:38. > :23:39.doesn't he? I think he is getting information and digesting it, then

:23:40. > :23:43.decision-making in the final moments. The last part of a game

:23:44. > :23:47.wore on the pitch, decision-making is what separates the best players

:23:48. > :23:50.from the players that are good. In this tournament, he has been one of

:23:51. > :23:54.their best attacking players, because he has created chances, he

:23:55. > :23:59.is on the end of things and he is always around it causing havoc. He's

:24:00. > :24:08.playing as a striker, not his normal position, and that shows a level of

:24:09. > :24:13.intelligence. Thierry, going from a wide player to a striker, is there a

:24:14. > :24:17.big difference? It is hard, in terms of movement. But what you see any

:24:18. > :24:21.images that we saw is desire to score a goal. It doesn't matter

:24:22. > :24:30.where you are, you are in the box, there or about, the that is the most

:24:31. > :24:35.important thing. That is what I'm worried about, the Portuguese team,

:24:36. > :24:38.they always have guys in the box. Let's go back to the Stade de

:24:39. > :24:40.France, where we can hear from another man who knows exactly what

:24:41. > :24:46.the French players are feeling, World Cup and European champion

:24:47. > :24:50.winner Robert Peres. He spoke to Jason a short while ago. This is

:24:51. > :24:56.what they are playing for, I'm joined by a man who knows what it is

:24:57. > :25:03.like to win this trophy. It was his cross for Trezeguet. Does he thank

:25:04. > :25:13.you every day for that cross? Yes, a very good gift for him. It was in

:25:14. > :25:19.2000, good memory against Italy. Yes, I'm very happy to be here,

:25:20. > :25:29.because in 2000, we lifted this trophy with Didier Deschamps. How

:25:30. > :25:33.does this side comply Burleigh compared to that one? It's difficult

:25:34. > :25:40.to compare when he was a player, now he's a manager. Since two years ago,

:25:41. > :25:49.he is doing well. The team is very good, very compact. He built

:25:50. > :25:57.something. I think he is... Yes, it is good for them to lift this trophy

:25:58. > :26:01.tonight. I wish for my country. Your dad is Portuguese, your mother is

:26:02. > :26:07.Spanish, who is your dad cheering for? Yes, for sure, actually, he is

:26:08. > :26:14.in Portugal. So, it's normal, he supports Portugal. But I call him

:26:15. > :26:18.one hour ago, so he is very excited and has a lot of stress. Very good

:26:19. > :26:21.to see you. Whether France win the trophy or not, the one thing we can

:26:22. > :26:27.agree on is that they have been incredible hosts.

:26:28. > :26:31.They certainly have, the trophy should be in safe hands with

:26:32. > :26:38.goalkeeper Hugo Lloris if they win. He has overtaken Didier Deschamps's

:26:39. > :26:40.record for appearances as a captain in this tournament and he is seen as

:26:41. > :27:21.a real leader in his country. Point-blank reactions to bus stop!

:27:22. > :27:47.-- super stop! Didier Deschamps was a tiny giant of

:27:48. > :28:23.a player, and he's trying to achieve something enormous.

:28:24. > :28:29.How about these four scenes in the Fan Park? They are all getting very

:28:30. > :28:33.excited. Lord knows what they will be like if they actually win the

:28:34. > :28:37.thing! I think we could be stuck here for a long time. It will be

:28:38. > :28:44.quite a party, so we'll join in. Talking about Hugo Lloris, he's been

:28:45. > :28:47.terrific, a top class goalkeeper? A top-class goalkeeper, you can't win

:28:48. > :28:52.a tournament without a good goalkeeper. What I like about him is

:28:53. > :28:57.his positioning. He is always on the right place at the right time. You

:28:58. > :29:05.know, 58 times captain for France. It's unbelievable. He is doing it

:29:06. > :29:14.ever so well. That is a world-class save. Same here. I thought that was

:29:15. > :29:19.a goal, on the night. He kept that out. Just a great guy. There is

:29:20. > :29:23.something I like about him, his calmness, he is very calm. He

:29:24. > :29:36.doesn't panic, therefore he doesn't make anyone panic. We talked about

:29:37. > :29:40.David De Gea and Manuel Neuer, I think he has been the keeper of the

:29:41. > :29:45.tournament? Something I want to talk about here, a great save, mistake

:29:46. > :29:49.from the back four, Sagna, as you can see. But he got up and he was

:29:50. > :29:59.trying to be positive. Guys, it's OK, come on, next one, let's do it.

:30:00. > :30:02.Route that calmness spreads to the team. I've played with goalkeeper is

:30:03. > :30:08.that are a bit all over the place and they instil panic. Name names!

:30:09. > :30:14.Like Edwin van der Sar. Somebody like that, David De Gea, when he got

:30:15. > :30:17.going, you look back and it is just an assuredness that transpires to

:30:18. > :30:24.the team and it enables you to go out and perform. Nose we saw

:30:25. > :30:27.terrific saves. What we didn't see, right through the second half, when

:30:28. > :30:32.they were under the cosh, under pressure, the number of times he

:30:33. > :30:37.came for crosses to take pressure off his defenders. Also, he's a very

:30:38. > :30:42.good footballer. For a goalkeeper, you have to be. Modern day

:30:43. > :30:46.goalkeeper, you have to be good with your feet. Look at a young kids, the

:30:47. > :30:51.first question is if they are good with their feet. Here's a calm

:30:52. > :30:51.leader. In this kind of game, especially tonight, you need

:30:52. > :31:00.calmness. If Lloris does lift the trophy,

:31:01. > :31:04.he'll follow in the footsteps of Didier Deschamps, who captained

:31:05. > :31:09.France to victory in the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2000. Since taking over

:31:10. > :31:14.from Laurent Blanc in 2012 he's helped bring unity to a squad riven

:31:15. > :31:19.by years of dressing room unrest. Still only 47, he is bidding to

:31:20. > :31:22.become only the second man after Germany's Berti Vogts to win the

:31:23. > :31:26.European Championships as a player and manager.

:31:27. > :31:35.The story of modern French football is very much the story of one man.

:31:36. > :31:40.Didier Deschamps is already the most titled football man in France. He

:31:41. > :31:46.has the spirit of the winner. He's a lucky charm for all French people he

:31:47. > :31:51.won the first Champions League a French club has won with Marseille

:31:52. > :31:58.in 1993, a successful international career, then a manager. I'm with him

:31:59. > :32:07.since I'm 14 years old in not. We started together, he is assessed

:32:08. > :32:11.about the game. He was captain of Nantes at 20, but it already injured

:32:12. > :32:13.more than most. A year before his older brother was killed in a plane

:32:14. > :32:28.crash. Deschamps commanded the respect of

:32:29. > :32:33.many, but not all. Eric Cantona called him a water carrier, a

:32:34. > :32:38.domestique, somebody to fetch and carry for the stars, but while

:32:39. > :32:43.France shunned Cantona, they turned to the Holborn -- humble technician

:32:44. > :32:47.to just make it all work. People were always laughing at him because

:32:48. > :32:54.he wasn't the most skilful, but he was skilful upstairs. The best skill

:32:55. > :32:58.you can have is your brain. We had a crazy generation in terms of

:32:59. > :33:02.competitiveness, but he's just a freak. He changes people's

:33:03. > :33:15.mentality. Wherever he goes, he wins.

:33:16. > :33:22.He adjusted the team first during the group stage around Pogba, then

:33:23. > :33:25.he changed his mind and replaced Griezmann but hide Giroud and then

:33:26. > :33:30.picked all the players around Griezmann. I guess he had the luck,

:33:31. > :33:35.but he has the skills as well. The harder he tries the luckier he gets?

:33:36. > :33:40.One thing is for sure, this job has been toiled since day one. That

:33:41. > :33:46.shameful World Cup in world that bad rapper -- Southern Africa when the

:33:47. > :33:50.players went on strike. French football was in ruins. There was no

:33:51. > :33:54.love between the fans and the national team. He had to bring back

:33:55. > :33:59.discipline and an aesthetic and he did that in four years. 2014 was

:34:00. > :34:04.good, we knew that was a rehearsal for the Euros at home. And just

:34:05. > :34:08.before showtime, another hitch. A refusal to pick Guarente Benzema, a

:34:09. > :34:15.man under investigation for the blackmail of a team-mate, led to

:34:16. > :34:19.Cantona coming back into the fray, alleging Deschamps didn't pick

:34:20. > :34:24.players because of their race. He decided it was too risky. It doesn't

:34:25. > :34:30.have any sense about what Cantona was saying about it being racist.

:34:31. > :34:34.France is facing a problem, socially, the security level. We

:34:35. > :34:38.need football. We need football to be there for us, to enjoy, to have

:34:39. > :34:46.hope. He's managed to gather everyone around the team and behind

:34:47. > :34:50.him. We saw you speaking, teary, you know Didier Deschamps well.

:34:51. > :34:57.Ruthless, brave, tactical. -- Thierry. He's intelligent. He wasn't

:34:58. > :35:01.the most gifted, but he didn't care about that. He was going to beat

:35:02. > :35:07.you. He did it as a player and a coach. Talking about cohesion coming

:35:08. > :35:11.back with the fans after what happened in 2010, it started with

:35:12. > :35:16.the French Federation and Laurent Blanc. Didier with his results at

:35:17. > :35:20.the moment elevated it to another level. I saw Frank Leboeuf talking

:35:21. > :35:24.about luck, it's nothing to do with luck. He made a mistake in a couple

:35:25. > :35:28.of games by choosing the wrong tactic in the first half, but he was

:35:29. > :35:32.man enough to put his hand up, not like some managers who will change

:35:33. > :35:41.sometimes when it's too late in the game. He changed it at half-time. He

:35:42. > :35:43.wasn't scared but Pogba and Griezmann on the bench. He's not

:35:44. > :35:46.scared to put Kante on the bench. That's nothing to do with luck, its

:35:47. > :35:49.intelligence and looking at what the team can bring. You have to give him

:35:50. > :35:56.a lot of credit. When you work well, it pays. What's he like as a man?

:35:57. > :36:01.You know him well as a human being. What you see is what you get. He'll

:36:02. > :36:05.talk to you and you like it or you don't, that's your problem. The team

:36:06. > :36:10.has to win, it's not about you or him. Go out and win. That's

:36:11. > :36:14.reflected in the way the players react when he makes decisions. The

:36:15. > :36:18.big players don't throw their arms around, there's no individual

:36:19. > :36:23.rebellion. They come off the pitch because they know what they are

:36:24. > :36:27.doing -- he is doing is for the betterment of the team. He's created

:36:28. > :36:32.a tremendous team spirit. A couple of months before the tournament when

:36:33. > :36:39.it was announced that Benzema and Valbuena wouldn't be playing forward

:36:40. > :36:45.ever reason, Aranda was suspended -- Varane was out, Ribery... He

:36:46. > :36:49.deserves tremendous credit. Every decision he is made in this

:36:50. > :36:55.tournament has worked so well for him. Overall he's got things right

:36:56. > :36:59.even if it's taking him time in matches. It also comes when you're

:37:00. > :37:05.doing well, when you're getting results and late goals. We talked

:37:06. > :37:11.about it at the very beginning. Where were they in terms of

:37:12. > :37:18.competition? They had no point of reference. No qualifiers. You have

:37:19. > :37:24.to try stuff in the tournament. He tried Pogba on the right, Pogba in

:37:25. > :37:28.behind, Payet in behind. Then he found something that worked and now

:37:29. > :37:32.he's going with it. You have to give him credit, it's not easy to listen

:37:33. > :37:39.to what people are saying all the time. To keep the cohesion and still

:37:40. > :37:42.go forward... Defensively also. The one question about France was

:37:43. > :37:46.whether they could cope to fans of league, like England. They've

:37:47. > :37:50.answered that and he's got them well organised. Let's go back to the

:37:51. > :37:54.stadium. Portugal have played the most games in the history of the

:37:55. > :37:59.European Championships without ever winning the tournament, 34 in total.

:38:00. > :38:06.One man who featured in a few of those was Deco and he's with Jason.

:38:07. > :38:12.Deco joins me. How proud are you to see not only the fancier, but this

:38:13. > :38:16.fantastic Portugal side in the final? -- the fans here. I'm very

:38:17. > :38:21.proud of this team, they've done very good, they deserve to be in

:38:22. > :38:28.this final. They are good young talents with a mix of experience.

:38:29. > :38:33.They deserve to be here. You really mean they deserve to be here? They

:38:34. > :38:36.didn't win a group match, but they performed in the semifinal. When you

:38:37. > :38:43.have somebody like Ronaldo in your side, that's what you want from your

:38:44. > :38:48.main man. The first phase of the group was difficult for every team.

:38:49. > :38:51.Portugal qualified, but after they qualified they started to play well.

:38:52. > :38:59.The game against Wales was fantastic. They are prepared

:39:00. > :39:05.tonight. You said to me it's a Portugal win, 2-0. Excuse the moths!

:39:06. > :39:11.Is tonight going to be Ronaldo's night? I think so. He's strong, he's

:39:12. > :39:20.prepared. He deserves to win something with the national team.

:39:21. > :39:24.Tonight will be his day. This man is very, very confident.

:39:25. > :39:29.Some of those moths were bigger than Deco! Varies Ronaldo. Three Ballon

:39:30. > :39:33.d'Ors to his name, three Champions League wins with Manchester United

:39:34. > :39:37.and Real Madrid. Now he has the chance to achieve something that's

:39:38. > :39:39.even beyond his archrival, Lionel Messi, and claim a major prize on

:39:40. > :40:04.the international stage. This is the Paris Madeira, but Judy

:40:05. > :40:09.'s oasis in the bustling metropolis. In the 1950s and 60s, thousands

:40:10. > :40:13.travelled from Portugal to France seeking refuge from the

:40:14. > :40:18.authoritarian -- or for you terry and regime of the dictator. Today

:40:19. > :40:22.the Portuguese make up the nation 's second largest immigrant population.

:40:23. > :40:27.Almost 20 years ago Cristiano Ronaldo embarked upon his own

:40:28. > :40:33.journey, from Lisbon to Manchester to Madrid. The boy from Madeira with

:40:34. > :40:41.magic in his boots and a burning desire to be the greatest. The man

:40:42. > :40:46.who would be King. Whilst the honours at club level flooded in and

:40:47. > :40:51.personal accolades stacked up, glory on the international stage remained

:40:52. > :40:55.elusive. A catalogue of bright sparks. Extinguished by crushing

:40:56. > :41:10.failure. At Euro 2016, Ronaldo's start was

:41:11. > :41:16.inauspicious. Frustration on the field, hubris of it. This is a small

:41:17. > :41:21.mentality, this is why they'll do nothing. The pantomime villain

:41:22. > :41:24.fulfilling his role. Fingers pointing, scrutiny, the pressure

:41:25. > :41:32.began to build. But Jeopardy calls for big players to step up, and step

:41:33. > :41:38.up he did. A chance for Cristiano Ronaldo! Absolutely brilliant. His

:41:39. > :41:44.will to win, relentless, enforced upon those around him. And as he

:41:45. > :41:49.dragged Portugal into the quarterfinals, an ocean away, his

:41:50. > :41:52.nemesis called it quits. Lionel Messi has announced he's retiring

:41:53. > :41:56.from international football. The chance now to usurp his archrival

:41:57. > :42:04.and imprint his name on a international tournament. The artist

:42:05. > :42:15.needed to find his feet, to perform, to inspire, to lead.

:42:16. > :42:23.And Portugal have done it on penalty kicks! The semifinal brought a

:42:24. > :42:30.galactic showdown. Could the dragon kill the King? Ronaldo has met it,

:42:31. > :42:34.what a leap. Not this time. And so to Paris and a meeting with the host

:42:35. > :42:39.nation with their own demons to slay. The Portuguese will flood the

:42:40. > :42:45.capital once again, this time seeking victory not refuge. It's

:42:46. > :42:50.something I aways dream .com to win something important for the Portugal

:42:51. > :42:53.national team. I believe and my colleagues believe, all Portugal

:42:54. > :42:57.believes, and the immigrants in France believe, I think it's going

:42:58. > :43:13.to be the first time Portugal will win an important trophy.

:43:14. > :43:19.One goal tonight would see Ronaldo overtake Michel Platini as the

:43:20. > :43:24.all-time leading scorer in the Euros. Some decent names on that

:43:25. > :43:29.list. Some less decent. Just kidding. Ronaldo is a phenomenon.

:43:30. > :43:35.Breathtakingly brilliant footballer. Wonderful goal-scorer. And a leader.

:43:36. > :43:39.That's one of the impressive things about him in this tournament.

:43:40. > :43:45.Working hard as well, which is something you wouldn't associate

:43:46. > :43:49.with him. Didn't score in his first too -- two group games, but when his

:43:50. > :43:54.country needed him most, he answered it. That is just world-class, you

:43:55. > :43:59.can't teach that. Absolutely brilliant. The run to get in there

:44:00. > :44:06.was also phenomenal. Good ball in, brilliant header. He is so, so

:44:07. > :44:10.powerful in the air. The power, the direction. I can't tell you how

:44:11. > :44:15.difficult this is, to get up there, to tie it, to stay up there and the

:44:16. > :44:22.power of the header. Absolutely phenomenal. He's an interesting

:44:23. > :44:27.personality as well. He obviously has a huge ego, we know that, as any

:44:28. > :44:31.great sportsman would, a few histrionics at times, Rio. He does.

:44:32. > :44:38.I wouldn't accept this in my changing room when I was playing.

:44:39. > :44:42.Rating players in front everybody. -- their rating. Their players

:44:43. > :44:47.believe in him and understand he will get them where they need to go.

:44:48. > :44:50.He's a team man. In the changing room, he's involved in all the

:44:51. > :44:54.banter, anything going on for the betterment of the team within the

:44:55. > :45:00.changing room. People think he's egotistical. This is great. Come and

:45:01. > :45:05.take a penalty. It's only a penalty. It's in God 's hands. That's a

:45:06. > :45:08.leader. You could see that as a young kid because he's got a desire

:45:09. > :45:13.and he's hungry to please everyone in Portugal and deliver this trophy.

:45:14. > :45:18.It's one thing getting to the top and another staying. His attitude,

:45:19. > :45:24.his desire to stay there is brilliant.

:45:25. > :45:31.He mentioned Portuguese immigrants in France. You were telling us about

:45:32. > :45:34.that earlier? We all have a Portuguese friend, we all know

:45:35. > :45:38.somebody Portuguese in France. For them to win it here, their first

:45:39. > :45:44.trophy here in France, almost like winning it at home for them. History

:45:45. > :45:49.is so big between Portugal and France, on and off the field. It is

:45:50. > :45:53.just unbelievable. It is one of the first times you will hear somebody

:45:54. > :46:04.saying, in his interview, immigrants in France believe in it, too. He has

:46:05. > :46:09.taken goal-scoring to a new level. Ronaldo, 30 goals a season, the best

:46:10. > :46:15.players to be seen. If Ronaldo or Messi scored 30 goals this season,

:46:16. > :46:22.it would be a disgraceful season! 548 goals, not bad? Portuguese hopes

:46:23. > :46:27.rest on Ronaldo, Griezmann is the man that France will look to for

:46:28. > :46:31.inspiration. Is the top scorer in the tournament, with six goals,

:46:32. > :46:34.three ahead of his rivals. It is he, more than anyone else, who has

:46:35. > :46:40.helped his team progressed to the final. Haven't the French crowd, or,

:46:41. > :46:56.as they say out here, La Foule, enjoyed the ride?

:46:57. > :46:58.# Je revois la ville en fete et en delire

:46:59. > :47:01.# Suffoquant sous le soleil et sous la joie

:47:02. > :47:04.# Et j'entends dans la musique les cris, les rires

:47:05. > :47:07.# Qui eclatent et rebondissent autour de moi

:47:08. > :47:15.# Emportes par la foule qui nous traine

:47:16. > :47:21.# Emportes par la foule qui nous traine

:47:22. > :48:08.Germany face France, a fixture so fixed in the French psyche that they

:48:09. > :48:22.are calling it their Everest. # 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 # Emportes par la

:48:42. > :49:04.foule qui nous traine We have enjoyed hearing that song

:49:05. > :49:09.over the last few weeks. This is part of the closing ceremony that is

:49:10. > :49:16.currently taking place inside the Stade de France, as we lead up to

:49:17. > :49:21.the kick-off. Two sides playing for that trophy. Well, not the one in

:49:22. > :49:24.the middle of the pitch! We saw Antoine Griezmann, star of the

:49:25. > :49:30.tournament? Player of the tournament, without a doubt, unless

:49:31. > :49:33.Ronaldo scores three or four today. He has been brilliant. He was the

:49:34. > :49:43.guy that his team looked to to produce the goods. Like Portugal,

:49:44. > :49:48.Ronaldo, like Germany and Muller, for the size of him, very good in

:49:49. > :49:51.the air. If you get balls in like that, three, which you can't afford

:49:52. > :49:57.to give him that amount of space, he proved that. He is such a clever

:49:58. > :50:05.player, intelligent, his linkup play with Giroud has been superb. A bit

:50:06. > :50:09.of luck with the finish, but who cares? Understanding of the game,

:50:10. > :50:14.he's got pace, what about that for a finish? Such a clever finish. So

:50:15. > :50:19.intelligent. What I like about him is that he involved himself in the

:50:20. > :50:23.game, comes the band plays. When the ball does come into the boss, as

:50:24. > :50:30.Alan said, he is potent, he finishes. He has had 70 odd games,

:50:31. > :50:34.how is he still running? A real Number 10? Something that is really

:50:35. > :50:39.difficult to do, 70th game tonight and he is running like a lunatic. To

:50:40. > :50:44.be able to play, still at that quality, at that level now, at the

:50:45. > :50:47.end of the season, after a long season, especially the way that

:50:48. > :50:50.Atletico Madrid plays, always on counter, he has to go up and down

:50:51. > :51:00.all the time and he is still performing. Wow. Well done. It

:51:01. > :51:09.interesting, Thierry, we have seen some bogeys laid to rest, France

:51:10. > :51:16.finally beat Germany, Iceland finally beat England. Portugal have

:51:17. > :51:21.never beaten France in a major tournament, I don't want to worry

:51:22. > :51:26.you! Listen, I just hope we keep that run going and we can carry on

:51:27. > :51:32.beating the Portuguese. If not, it's a great tournament, happiness, but

:51:33. > :51:35.you still have to win it, because you want to make history. It's

:51:36. > :51:39.always about making history at the end of the day. I know they brought

:51:40. > :51:42.happiness back, that cohesion is back, Griezmann had a great

:51:43. > :51:47.tournament, but you need to win it at the very end of the day. The

:51:48. > :51:51.final is the most important of all. Portugal, you have to be patient

:51:52. > :51:56.against them? Yes, they are resolute. They understand how to

:51:57. > :51:59.defend, were to be on the pitch. Especially as a defender, when you

:52:00. > :52:03.know you have a weapon like Cristiano and Nani, you can change

:52:04. > :52:07.games, Sanches, they can change games, and brings a unity when you

:52:08. > :52:13.defend. Listen, we keep a clean sheet, these guys will open up and

:52:14. > :52:17.can get our hands on the trophy. It's mouthwatering to see what can

:52:18. > :52:26.happen. France have that many more weapons in this game, and I think

:52:27. > :52:30.that could prove decisive. In turns Portugal, important to get payback?

:52:31. > :52:41.He gives a bit more solidity at back. Pepe is a big game player, no

:52:42. > :52:48.surprise he is back in the team. I think France will have too much for

:52:49. > :52:56.them. Griezmann, Payet, who knows, Pogba also. Giroud has had a good

:52:57. > :53:08.tournament. What worries you, Thierry Cristiano Ronaldo. I was

:53:09. > :53:13.saying, listen, when I was a player, I needed to get rid into the game.

:53:14. > :53:16.You guys, it was kind of difference. Even if you were not touching the

:53:17. > :53:20.ball, you still had your head in the game, saying, I might get one. If I

:53:21. > :53:24.wasn't getting into the game, touching the ball, moving, I was

:53:25. > :53:29.thinking, I need to get into the game. That guy can miss 20,000

:53:30. > :53:34.controls, he can miss how many opportunities, and you still think

:53:35. > :53:37.he is going to score the winner. That is what worries me. Sometimes

:53:38. > :53:42.you can see somebody is not in the game. At that guy is always in the

:53:43. > :53:51.game, somehow. 44 free kick saw something now? 43 and he hasn't

:53:52. > :53:56.scored? Wouldn't that be typical? That is a mentality thing. We keep

:53:57. > :54:01.using the word desire, his mentality is geared to winning games, winning

:54:02. > :54:04.football matches. Ultimately, do it himself, almost. He wants to be the

:54:05. > :54:08.person getting them over the line with a goal. The Portuguese team are

:54:09. > :54:16.set up for that. Two teams in the tunnel, which will be triumphant?

:54:17. > :54:20.France, for me, 2-1. France, I wanted and I don't care how they

:54:21. > :54:24.win! I backed France at the beginning, I'm going to go with

:54:25. > :54:28.them. It calls for people keeping their emotions intact. Whoever does

:54:29. > :54:33.that and has Carmen is on the night will win the game. It's time. He

:54:34. > :54:38.knows it. The final of Euro 20s at the. The host nation, France, take

:54:39. > :54:39.on Portugal at the Stade de France. Commentators are Danny Murphy and

:54:40. > :54:49.Guy Mowbray. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to

:54:50. > :54:52.the end of the month long party. A few gate-crashers threatened to

:54:53. > :54:56.spoil it early on, but it has grown into a real festival of friendship,

:54:57. > :55:01.even if not all of the football has been sparkling. Hopefully tonight we

:55:02. > :55:07.will see a finish with a flourish. Echoes of 1998, France in the final

:55:08. > :55:13.at the Stade de France, featuring a team of Portuguese speakers whose

:55:14. > :55:16.star is Ronaldo. 80 years ago, the original Ronaldo seemed elsewhere in

:55:17. > :55:20.thought and deed and did not shine. It is hard to envisage that

:55:21. > :55:25.happening with this one. -- 18 years. If you see him as show man or

:55:26. > :55:30.show off, here's the best and biggest threat to France not making

:55:31. > :55:32.it a hat-trick of tournament wins as hosts. The first thing they are

:55:33. > :55:43.bound to win is the singing. # Herois do mar, nobre povo

:55:44. > :55:46.Nacao valente, imortal # Levantai hoje de novo

:55:47. > :55:54.O esplendor de Portugal # Entre as brumas da memoria

:55:55. > :56:02.O Patria, sente-se a voz # Dos teus egregios avos

:56:03. > :56:11.Que ha-de guiar-te a vitoria # As armas, as armas

:56:12. > :56:19.Sobre a terra, sobre o mar, # As armas, as armas

:56:20. > :56:29.Pela Patria lutar # Contra os canhoes, marchar,

:56:30. > :56:48.marchar. # Ladies and gentlemen, please remain

:56:49. > :56:51.standing for the national anthem of France.

:56:52. > :56:56.# Allons enfants de la Patrie Le jour de gloire est arrive

:56:57. > :57:04.# Contre nous de la tyrannie, L'etendard sanglant est leve

:57:05. > :57:17.# Entendez-vous dans les campagnes Mugir ces feroces soldats

:57:18. > :57:25.# Aux armes, citoyens Formez vos bataillons

:57:26. > :57:32.# Qu'un sang impur Abreuve nos sillons

:57:33. > :57:50.# Conduis, soutiens nos bras vengeurs Liberte, Liberte cherie

:57:51. > :57:52.# Combats avec tes defenseurs Combats avec tes defenseurs

:57:53. > :57:55.# Sous nos drapeaux que la victoire Accoure a tes males accents

:57:56. > :57:57.# Que tes ennemis expirants Voient ton triomphe et notre gloire

:57:58. > :58:01.# Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras Egorger vos fils et vos compagnes. #

:58:02. > :58:03.Not a bad way to get the juices flowing for one of the biggest

:58:04. > :58:18.sporting events around. Let's take a look at the teams.

:58:19. > :58:25.Portugal, with the excellent Rui Patricio, and Pepe fit again to

:58:26. > :58:31.replace Alves at the back. Carvalho returns from suspension. Adrien

:58:32. > :58:36.Silva is another to be born in France with a Portuguese dad. Then

:58:37. > :58:45.the main two... Well, one! His great rival, Lionel Messi, has found

:58:46. > :58:51.international glory, beyond him. This might be Cristiano Ronaldo's

:58:52. > :58:56.last big chance. There has not been a hat-trick scored at the

:58:57. > :58:59.tournament, but Mark Clattenburg completes one other kind. He has

:59:00. > :59:05.refereed the finals the FA Cup, Champions League and European

:59:06. > :59:10.Championships in the same year. A testimony to the standard of those

:59:11. > :59:19.in the Premier League who we are perhaps too quick to criticise.

:59:20. > :59:36.If France win, Hugo Lloris will be the third successive goalkeeper

:59:37. > :59:42.captain to lift the trophy. Although ruck can't get a game, Sissoko can.

:59:43. > :59:45.Excellent against Germany, that nobody shone brighter than Antoine

:59:46. > :59:52.Griezmann, who came close to playing for Portugal, his grandfather's

:59:53. > :59:54.country. One way or another, a number seven is likely to have a big

:59:55. > :59:57.impact on how tonight turns out. his desire to stay there is

:59:58. > :00:09.brilliant. A full complement of substitutes for

:00:10. > :00:23.the coaches after no more injury concerns.

:00:24. > :00:32.There will be the countdown to kick off we've got used to throughout the

:00:33. > :00:36.tournament. Start from ten shortly and then Mark Clattenburg can get

:00:37. > :00:41.ready for the biggest moment of his career so far. He'll be hoping for a

:00:42. > :00:52.quiet night. We're hoping for anything but.

:00:53. > :01:00.It is the 15th European Championship final. France are in their third,

:01:01. > :01:03.they've won the other two. For Portugal it's a second and their

:01:04. > :01:09.mission is to do to France what Greece did to them 12 years ago.

:01:10. > :01:13.Beat the hosts, spoil the party. They'll have to be more composed

:01:14. > :01:20.with their passing at the back than that. In nervous first touch from

:01:21. > :01:25.Jose Fonte. It was indeed. I've got to mention the atmosphere in this

:01:26. > :01:29.stadium, it's absolutely incredible. I've watched many big games and been

:01:30. > :01:33.involved in many and I can't remember one where the atmosphere

:01:34. > :01:38.has been like this. There really is a electricity about this place.

:01:39. > :01:46.Patrice Evra throws the ball to Olivier Giroud. Payet caught by

:01:47. > :01:50.Nani. Nani instantly looked for Ronaldo. He's being watched closely

:01:51. > :02:10.by Bakary Sako you. -- Bacary Sagna. A little notch -- nudge from Renato

:02:11. > :02:14.Sanches, but the referee was there to rule nothing untoward about that.

:02:15. > :02:22.The jeers are music to Ronaldo's in years already. Two sloppy passes

:02:23. > :02:27.early on. Carvalho this time, a little bit of nerves.

:02:28. > :02:36.Understandable. Fernando Santos rarely shows any nerves, any kind of

:02:37. > :02:41.emotion at all. He's delighted in some of the criticism his team have

:02:42. > :02:50.taken for being too defensive. They are having to be here. Behind

:02:51. > :02:59.Griezmann, but here's Payet. Headed clear by Fonte.

:03:00. > :03:06.Nani is rudely barged off the ball by Pogba. Portugal are quick to

:03:07. > :03:12.regain possession, not that Renato Sanches can keep that one in. A

:03:13. > :03:16.little bit frantic on either side. Good defensive play by Pogba, he did

:03:17. > :03:20.the hard work by winning the ball back, then he tried to trick and

:03:21. > :03:29.gave it back to Portugal. The French look to be on the front foot.

:03:30. > :03:40.Sissoko settles for the throne. A remarkable turnaround in his life

:03:41. > :03:42.over the last few weeks. In the Newcastle United team that went down

:03:43. > :03:53.and he might be European champion by the end of tonight.

:03:54. > :04:01.Griezmann couldn't poke it out to Sissoko. Griezmann is a worker.

:04:02. > :04:05.What's blatantly obvious is that Portugal will drop off like we saw

:04:06. > :04:09.them do in the first half against Wales, give up some possession and

:04:10. > :04:22.try to counter. It's what we expected.

:04:23. > :04:29.Paper -- Pepe didn't get much on that, but just enough and it lands

:04:30. > :04:33.in a safe place. Pepe Mel the semifinal against Wales with a thigh

:04:34. > :04:38.strain. If he was fit he was always going to come back into the side

:04:39. > :04:42.even though Bruno Alves had a good game. He's got big-game experience,

:04:43. > :04:48.he's played in all the big finals for Madrid, this won't faze him,

:04:49. > :04:53.he's crucial to their back four tonight. Nani has controlled it...

:04:54. > :04:58.He will feel that's an opportunity gone. Lovely first touch, just

:04:59. > :05:04.couldn't settle himself down for the blast past Lloris. It's a good run

:05:05. > :05:10.from Nani. Gets in behind, tried to take it early. Decent effort. He's

:05:11. > :05:23.had more than a decent tournament. Back in the big leagues, with

:05:24. > :05:28.respect to the Turkish top flight. He's left Fenerbahce and will start

:05:29. > :05:33.the season at Valencia. A good move for him. Seems hungry and fit in his

:05:34. > :05:34.new role. We used to seeing him in wider areas, but he's played well in

:05:35. > :06:03.this tournament. Trying to find a little gap to find

:06:04. > :06:13.Griezmann. Pepe and Cedric tried to get it away. It reached Sissoko and

:06:14. > :06:18.that's reached the moon! A poor effort from Sissoko. Watch when the

:06:19. > :06:22.ball comes in. Fonte reads this brilliantly, he doesn't go and

:06:23. > :06:27.challenge Griezmann. He anticipates the flick on and gets the clearance,

:06:28. > :06:39.but wild slash at that from Pogba, you'd expect better from him.

:06:40. > :06:48.Most of the noise at the moment is coming from the determined,

:06:49. > :06:53.passionate bunch of Portuguese. Nani slipped as he tried to knock one

:06:54. > :06:56.infield to Cedric, who had advanced. He'll have to get back quickly now.

:06:57. > :07:17.Nice work from Moussa Sissoko. Look how quickly Miss Tweedy was

:07:18. > :07:21.onto it. Griezmann was there. -- Matuidi. Portugal pride themselves

:07:22. > :07:27.on being defensively strong. Not looking it at the moment. Another

:07:28. > :07:32.good opportunity. Griezmann snatches at it. You expect more from him.

:07:33. > :07:37.There's men in the box, disappointed he didn't find them. Can't blame

:07:38. > :07:41.him, really. Goal-scoring boots on at the moment. Six in the

:07:42. > :07:51.tournament, five in the last three games. It was a really good run from

:07:52. > :07:55.Sissoko. The type of thing we know he can do. Matuidi has picked off

:07:56. > :08:07.another one. Renato Sanches was caught heavily by

:08:08. > :08:15.Payet when they both went in together. Payet in very strongly on

:08:16. > :08:22.Ronaldo, who is rising. On goes Griezmann. It will be put out of

:08:23. > :08:32.play under Pepe's command by Cedric Soares. We'll see what the damage

:08:33. > :08:37.is. He looks hurt. He's not been on the ball much. Might be the first

:08:38. > :08:43.time he's probably had it at his feet and Payet did not hang about. I

:08:44. > :08:53.don't think it was particularly nasty. It was just need to need. It

:08:54. > :09:03.can be sore. The right knee going into the left need of Ronaldo. --

:09:04. > :09:07.left knee. The biggest grimaces after these sorts of moments when

:09:08. > :09:14.the drama takes over. You're right, they do hurt. I think he's genuinely

:09:15. > :09:19.hurt, he's not overplaying it. Sometimes when you clash knees, it

:09:20. > :09:28.feels a lot worse, and then it takes a minute or two to come back to you.

:09:29. > :09:37.His boot was flat on the floor. Maybe a bit of a twist.

:09:38. > :09:47.He's one player they can't lose. The player they can't lose. Might just

:09:48. > :09:49.work in his favour if he's fit. Not that he should need any more firing

:09:50. > :10:02.up. Almost a harsh and round the ground

:10:03. > :10:10.as people waited to see just what the extent of the injury was.

:10:11. > :10:15.Griezmann... Instinctive header. He knew where the goal was. He knew

:10:16. > :10:22.where really protrusion would be and it's a decent save. -- Rui Patricio.

:10:23. > :10:30.A slip from Pepe, making their own mistakes at the moment. Good save.

:10:31. > :10:40.Good header from Griezmann, clever. Another Payet corner. Went big with

:10:41. > :10:45.it and straight at Rui Patricio from Olivier Giroud. Just how he would

:10:46. > :10:49.have wanted it. It was a good ball in. This is the Griezmann header.

:10:50. > :10:56.Tries to look it over the goalkeeper. Moves his feet well,

:10:57. > :11:01.good save. Both these goalkeepers have had excellent Euro 2016s.

:11:02. > :11:05.Portugal making too many mistakes at the moment, helping France. They

:11:06. > :11:14.don't need any help with the players they've got. Renato Sanches quick to

:11:15. > :11:22.throw it in after good movement from Adrien Silva. The bounce of the ball

:11:23. > :11:35.beat him. Sagna seems to have rolled back the years after the last three

:11:36. > :11:40.weeks. Evra, too, on the other side. Renato Sanches won't find Ronaldo

:11:41. > :11:45.with that. He's still feeling his way back into things. It's a worry.

:11:46. > :11:51.It's on the back of his mind, you can tell. He's still limping and

:11:52. > :12:15.testing it out. It's on the front and the sides, too.

:12:16. > :12:21.What a rise in TT has enjoyed, third cap in his last three games. --

:12:22. > :12:53.Umtiti. Matuidi had to go backwards but had

:12:54. > :13:01.the athleticism to sort himself out. The return not quite in the right

:13:02. > :13:08.spot to Payet. Awkward landing for Ronaldo after he won the header.

:13:09. > :13:14.That's a landing that couldn't be avoided by Pogba with Joao Mario

:13:15. > :13:19.coming in. He didn't want to put weight on that knee. It's a problem,

:13:20. > :13:25.definitely. He's going to have to make a decision soon later. If he is

:13:26. > :13:32.really struggling. -- sooner or later.

:13:33. > :14:00.Jose Fonte given time on the ball. Guerreiro looking to busy things are

:14:01. > :14:22.for Portugal. -- up. Umtiti was being ordered by Evra to

:14:23. > :14:28.play it back to Lloris with Nani about.

:14:29. > :14:40.Ronaldo fouled this time. Portugal took the free kick perhaps too

:14:41. > :14:44.quickly. I think they did. They need to get a foothold in the game, get

:14:45. > :14:51.some passes, some possession and some confidence on the ball.

:14:52. > :14:57.France have looked the better team in the opening 14 minutes. The

:14:58. > :15:05.saving grace for Portugal is that it is level, that one save from Rui

:15:06. > :15:11.Patricio. Portugal have grown into the tournament, they might have to

:15:12. > :15:12.grow into the final. They started slowly against Wales, actually,

:15:13. > :15:24.before they grew into that game. Still, most of the noises coming

:15:25. > :15:27.from their supporters. There is hushed expectation amongst the vast

:15:28. > :16:03.majority inside the Stade de France. He has started brightly, Sissoko.

:16:04. > :16:07.Nice and positive. Good energy. Probably a few Newcastle fans

:16:08. > :16:15.thinking that they haven't seen that for a while. Certainly didn't see it

:16:16. > :16:21.often enough last season. A bit of a pick up, once Rafael Benitez came to

:16:22. > :17:04.Toon. Carvalho, at the U21 tournament just

:17:05. > :17:09.over a year ago. Normally, players like Sanches would be playing in

:17:10. > :17:16.tournaments like that one. Been thrust into the tournament. Ronaldo

:17:17. > :17:17.has gone down. He's coming off. There are going to be tears. This

:17:18. > :17:29.was his stage. This is not how it was supposed to

:17:30. > :17:35.end in France, this summer, for Cristiano Ronaldo. A massive shame,

:17:36. > :17:43.absolutely devastated for him. I've been watching him for four five

:17:44. > :17:48.shaking his head. -- for four or five minutes, he was shaking his

:17:49. > :17:51.head. It's his name that the Portugal fans singing, but they

:17:52. > :17:59.won't be seeing him in action again tonight. Nine or messy, recently,

:18:00. > :18:03.copper America, it didn't work him. -- the Copa America. The two

:18:04. > :18:05.greatest around right now, they haven't had it go for them on the

:18:06. > :18:17.international stage. A little bit naughty from Payet, but

:18:18. > :18:21.not horrendous. Maybe he tweaked something? So wrapped up in his

:18:22. > :18:27.disappointment, he doesn't even notice a moth paying a visit. A

:18:28. > :18:33.change, and the last one that Fernando Santos would have

:18:34. > :18:41.contemplated making. I'm sure many of you at home will be cheering at

:18:42. > :18:48.this, but that is a sad sight, a great sportsman. You want to see the

:18:49. > :18:51.best players play. Forget the histrionics, he is a wonderful

:18:52. > :18:57.footballer and we want to see him on the pitch. Looks like they are

:18:58. > :19:02.trying to give it one last bit of treatment before they make the final

:19:03. > :19:06.call. He knows, now. They can take that up, but he will be playing

:19:07. > :19:11.within himself. He's got to be able to sprint, get off the ground, go

:19:12. > :19:18.past people. The things he normally does? The things he does. Every

:19:19. > :19:19.player knows out there, even Sunday league footballers, you try to play

:19:20. > :19:28.with an injury, it's impossible. At the moment, France are playing

:19:29. > :19:53.against ten. A few anxious Real Madrid supporters

:19:54. > :20:32.watching this. Portugal are doing well to keep the

:20:33. > :20:42.ball, while they are a man light on the field.

:20:43. > :20:55.Can France break? That is as quick as Giroud has moved in a while. He's

:20:56. > :20:57.coming back on? Fairplay for having a go, it's a risk. A risk worth

:20:58. > :21:16.taking. 11 on the field for Portugal, maybe

:21:17. > :21:20.ten plus one, but it is a big one. I understand the risk, why they are

:21:21. > :21:28.taking a chance. They just have to be so careful that he's not leaving

:21:29. > :21:32.himself open for a worse injury. But it's the biggest game of his life,

:21:33. > :21:40.isn't it? I'd do the same. I'd want to be out there. The only player

:21:41. > :21:47.they would take that risk for. Yes. Throwing for Portugal. There will be

:21:48. > :22:30.watching the body language very closely indeed.

:22:31. > :22:37.Sissoko, he has started the game keen to drive at Portugal with every

:22:38. > :22:40.chance he gets. He comes into a central area and he thinks, there's

:22:41. > :22:50.a gap, I'm going for it. That is one way of getting through a packed

:22:51. > :22:55.defence. Quality run. So strong. The shot was deflected and it will be a

:22:56. > :22:58.France corner. His home debut for Newcastle against Chelsea, he loved

:22:59. > :23:02.one of the best players in the world. He's not done it quite since.

:23:03. > :23:08.-- he looked to be one of the best players in the world.

:23:09. > :23:13.Outcomes Rui Patricio and that is a great acclaim. It is all going on

:23:14. > :23:24.behind him, as he gets on with finding Ronaldo. He has winced as he

:23:25. > :23:43.found the pass. He's off, he has just signalled to the bench.

:23:44. > :23:53.Ronaldo could not get the spring. Adrien Silva, way off target.

:23:54. > :24:07.Ronaldo has signalled again, he has given the call to Jose Fonte and

:24:08. > :24:15.Pepe. The bigger worry is this man coming off. What is it about this

:24:16. > :24:27.stadium and the big major finals with Ronaldo? It has struck again.

:24:28. > :24:38.Portugal will have to do it for their man, without their man. It's a

:24:39. > :24:41.shame for everybody. Viewers, players, you want to beat the best

:24:42. > :24:45.team, you want to play against the best players. Of course it is going

:24:46. > :24:53.to benefit the French team. But watching Ronaldo at his best in the

:24:54. > :24:56.semifinal was a delight. You can tell us, I think you have already

:24:57. > :25:04.explained it, but there was nothing preplanned about that? It was

:25:05. > :25:08.accidental, wasn't it? It was a bit lazy, from Payet. It wasn't a great

:25:09. > :25:14.tackle. But it wasn't nasty. He has just tweaked something in his knee,

:25:15. > :25:23.whether it is the medial ligament, I'm not sure. But you can't carry on

:25:24. > :25:30.with it. On comes, in a moment, and incidentally this is nice, this is a

:25:31. > :25:36.really nice thing to see, 90%, maybe more of the stadium, French,

:25:37. > :25:42.Portuguese, neutrals, all applauding him off the field. A nice touch from

:25:43. > :25:44.Didier Deschamps as well. Ricardo Quaresma, who has had a fine

:25:45. > :26:09.tournament himself, is on. Given away to the new Portugal

:26:10. > :26:27.captain, Nani. Ronaldo was just a teenager when

:26:28. > :26:32.Portugal were last in the Euros final. He couldn't inspire them to

:26:33. > :26:36.beat Greece. They won with their only shot on target the entire game.

:26:37. > :26:44.Maybe the teenager on the field can really step it up? Well, an obvious

:26:45. > :26:50.change formation, Nani is up on own, Quaresma on the right. Mario on the

:26:51. > :26:53.left. Sanches has gone through the midfield to make it three. It is

:26:54. > :27:09.for- 5-1, in effect. Quaresma does like to do whatever he

:27:10. > :27:27.can with the outside of the boot. Knocked down tamely by Joao Mario.

:27:28. > :27:33.Couldn't get a proper jump at that. Good move, nice and patient. Better

:27:34. > :27:35.with the build-up, good cross in. I know who I would have wanted on the

:27:36. > :27:46.back post. France, dominating possession, with

:27:47. > :28:29.twice as many passes of the ball. Bid closing by Payet. Not to close

:28:30. > :28:35.on that occasion. What it is going to do is make Portugal harder to

:28:36. > :28:38.break down. They have another midfielder on the pitch, in effect.

:28:39. > :28:45.Sometimes you carry Ronaldo a little bit defensively. Of course, you lose

:28:46. > :28:49.that wonderful talent in attack, everything he brings going forward.

:28:50. > :28:54.Defensively, they are certainly going to be tough to break down. As

:28:55. > :29:01.if they already weren't. Still unbeaten in competitive

:29:02. > :29:05.internationals under Fernando Santos's shrewd, wily stewardship.

:29:06. > :29:07.They have only lost two 26 internationals that have really

:29:08. > :29:16.meant something in the last four years.

:29:17. > :29:20.Hard to beat. France knew that would be the case. Well-organised, well

:29:21. > :29:54.coached, well drilled. Good shape. Rui Patricio stayed back, allowing

:29:55. > :30:01.Raffaele De Vita error to flick it clear. A bit of uncertain goal

:30:02. > :30:10.keeping. -- allowing Guerriero to flick it clear.

:30:11. > :30:16.Another burst through the lot from Sissoko and his won corner. He did

:30:17. > :30:24.it all by himself. Best player on the field at the moment. Big sack

:30:25. > :30:28.Clay, exactly that. Positive, good skill, good balance. -- exactly.

:30:29. > :30:35.Really hard to handle when he's playing like this. Griezmann on

:30:36. > :30:38.corners. I thought your main striker wasn't meant to take corners! He is

:30:39. > :30:50.little. Matuidi made a run into the box and

:30:51. > :30:56.that's really good stuff from Southampton's Cedric Soares. I like

:30:57. > :31:05.Cedric, he's a good player. Quick, doesn't dive in too often. Made his

:31:06. > :31:15.international debut here. 2-1 France win in the November of 2014.

:31:16. > :31:21.France have actually won the last ten meetings. They've only got a

:31:22. > :31:26.better current run against Luxembourg. I saw that the other

:31:27. > :31:30.day. Strange, sometimes, how you seem to do well against a particular

:31:31. > :31:35.team, but I don't think the Portuguese players would have been

:31:36. > :31:38.thinking about that. I know we've had this conversation. Club football

:31:39. > :31:45.don't bother with it so at international level, even less so.

:31:46. > :31:49.Enough on it from Fonte to find Rui Patricio. Terrific defending,

:31:50. > :32:09.railway, patient, stayed with Griezmann, good header.

:32:10. > :32:17.Nani caught waiting for it and in came Laurent Koscielny, doing what

:32:18. > :32:21.he does. More interceptions than any other defender in the Premier League

:32:22. > :32:26.last season. I'd like to see Portugal try to get Nani in behind a

:32:27. > :32:30.bit more. The only bit of joy they've had in the first half. Get

:32:31. > :32:34.him off the shoulder of Nani and play some diagonals. -- shoulder of

:32:35. > :32:51.Koscielny. Sagna on the charge. It's been

:32:52. > :32:58.forced into the boards, he couldn't do anything else with it. Nothing

:32:59. > :33:06.much for Mark Clattenburg to concern himself with yet. No. I have to say,

:33:07. > :33:10.I think the refereeing generally at this tournament has been really

:33:11. > :33:16.good. There's definitely been a conscious effort to keep play going,

:33:17. > :33:25.not that many red cards, it's been really refreshing. Absolutely. I

:33:26. > :33:30.suppose we have to thank one of the best, Pierluigi Collina, for some of

:33:31. > :33:31.that. In charge of Uefa's technical department when it comes to

:33:32. > :33:59.officiating. Great work again from Sissoko! He

:34:00. > :34:27.stung the hands of Rui Patricio. Portugal keep out another France

:34:28. > :34:31.forward movement. Cedric went in without enough care on Payet. He

:34:32. > :34:36.caught him midair and he was never going to get the ball. He has to get

:34:37. > :34:43.the first card of the match. Definitely, yellow card. About time

:34:44. > :34:47.Cedric left a bit on him, if I'm honest. Getting too much of the

:34:48. > :34:52.ball, Payet. I'm not suggesting you should be attacking people. This is

:34:53. > :34:59.the chance. Good play from Sissoko, clever turn, full of confidence.

:35:00. > :35:08.Didn't quite get the bend on it. A decent ball in from Payet, but a

:35:09. > :35:17.nice, hanging 14 Rui Patricio. -- hanging one four Rui Patricio.

:35:18. > :35:22.I think it's important for a full-back or a defender when you're

:35:23. > :35:29.playing against a talented player to let them know you're there. Get

:35:30. > :35:47.really close to them. That was a bit over the top, one might say.

:35:48. > :35:54.If you do occasionally see a shadowy shape flicker across your screen,

:35:55. > :35:59.there are still a lot of moths flying around the stadium and there

:36:00. > :36:06.have been all evening. Not sure what anyone can do about that. Close your

:36:07. > :36:11.wallet. I knew that was coming. Safely done from Lloris, but at the

:36:12. > :36:14.cost of a throw. You still owe me money from the goal the other day.

:36:15. > :36:35.You said you'd never mention that ever again. -- our game of golf.

:36:36. > :36:41.Portugal coping without their talismanic pretty well at the

:36:42. > :36:45.moment. They are doing OK. Sissoko is causing them a few problems with

:36:46. > :36:50.his direct running, but they can't get any good possession in the final

:36:51. > :37:21.third. They haven't really worked Lloris at all.

:37:22. > :37:29.Still the Portugal supporters, with their flags, clap and cheer. They

:37:30. > :37:32.realise they have to play their part now. They are doing well to make

:37:33. > :38:05.themselves heard. The first time Allez Les Bleus has

:38:06. > :38:12.started to build. Brilliantly done by Renato Sanches, and a way to find

:38:13. > :38:19.Quaresma. Cedric has come to help Nani. Nani might not need any

:38:20. > :38:27.assistance. Adrien Silva wanted to long on it. It was dragged by

:38:28. > :38:31.Guerreiro, but it took a French touch and it's a Portugal corner.

:38:32. > :38:36.Really good move started by Sanches with great skill in the middle of

:38:37. > :38:41.the pitch. It falls to Silva in the end, a good run from Nani. Can't get

:38:42. > :38:55.it out of his feet, gets a bit trapped. Now we have Quaresma on the

:38:56. > :38:59.floor. He's hurt himself. Among the substitutes, he was really the only

:39:00. > :39:02.possible replacement for Cristiano Ronaldo. They need him to get up and

:39:03. > :39:18.get on with it. That's fine. No goals. France have had three

:39:19. > :39:29.corners, this is Portugal's first. It was a good leap. Jose Fonte from

:39:30. > :39:33.a standing start. Good ball in. It is a good leap. He wins it quite

:39:34. > :39:40.cleanly and should do better. We've seen him score some really good

:39:41. > :39:46.headers for Southampton. Sissoko off again. Lovely early cross from

:39:47. > :40:01.Dmitri Payet. That man Sissoko again. Starting the

:40:02. > :40:08.move. Another good header from Fonte. Close to Giroud, touch type.

:40:09. > :40:20.-- touch tight. Quaresma managed to hold off Matuidi

:40:21. > :40:46.first time and second. Look how many deep red shirts are

:40:47. > :41:21.back in their own half. No frills defending from Pepe, the

:41:22. > :41:27.Real Madrid man. Good attack, good defending, good quality football all

:41:28. > :41:32.round. Renato Sanches, just enough on it for Joao Mario. Pogba, not

:41:33. > :41:36.enough on it. Nani was well placed. Another Portugal corner. Best spell

:41:37. > :42:07.of the game, end to end. Joao Mario wanders away. But the

:42:08. > :42:10.short option is still there. Pepe nearly got there. Umtiti,

:42:11. > :42:20.importantly, just nicked in ahead of him. Guerreiro once more. Caught

:42:21. > :42:25.between stand between. Unlucky. Some good ball is put in from both sides.

:42:26. > :42:31.We talked earlier in the tournament about England's Paul set plays.

:42:32. > :42:37.They've all been on the money tonight. -- whore set plays.

:42:38. > :42:50.Nearly half the 45 goals France have conceded under Deschamps have come

:42:51. > :42:53.from set pieces. We always decry goals like that, but it seems to

:42:54. > :42:58.happen more and more the higher up the levels you go. You have such big

:42:59. > :43:04.and strong guys to defend against. It gets more difficult. What it is

:43:05. > :43:15.part of football. Very important part now.

:43:16. > :43:27.Mark Clattenburg has asked for the ball to be put out. Not seen too

:43:28. > :43:31.much of Pogba. What's that about? Do we need a change of ball? I think it

:43:32. > :44:07.might have popped. Two minutes until the half-time

:44:08. > :44:13.interval, or there or thereabouts. There will be a bit more added on

:44:14. > :44:18.for Ronaldo's injury. Portugal, over the last ten to 15 minutes, have

:44:19. > :44:19.spent an increasing amount of time in the French half. Very

:44:20. > :44:32.well-balanced. They've got some good players, they

:44:33. > :44:36.have kept the ball well, grown in confidence. They started nervously

:44:37. > :44:40.in the first ten minutes and we saw some stray passes. The substitution

:44:41. > :44:47.of Ronaldo, which has change their system, has given them a bit of

:44:48. > :44:53.better balance. Luis Figo, yawning. He's allowed. They would have loved

:44:54. > :44:59.to have brought on their previous magnificent number seven. I had the

:45:00. > :45:05.pleasure of being on the same pitch as him once. See a lot of him? Not

:45:06. > :45:27.really. He was absolutely amazing. So strong.

:45:28. > :45:34.Griezmann won't jump for that and wasn't blocked unfairly, either. A

:45:35. > :45:37.Portugal throw-in. A frustrating night for the man who has lit up the

:45:38. > :45:43.tournament with his half a dozen goals so far. Not quite have the

:45:44. > :45:49.joy. He keeps getting in there, keeps asking for the ball. He always

:45:50. > :46:00.wants it. A poor cross, by the way, from Sagna. No pressure on the ball.

:46:01. > :46:09.Ricardo Quaresma is down, a clash of heads. That is why the game had to

:46:10. > :46:11.be stopped. There might be more added time than the two minutes but

:46:12. > :46:32.were indicated. There will be a feud with headaches

:46:33. > :46:37.watching the game, I would think. It's not exactly been one to get the

:46:38. > :46:42.pulse racing so far. Hasn't, but it's been fascinating. The French

:46:43. > :46:45.started really well. Portugal hung in in the early stages. They have

:46:46. > :46:48.had to deal with the massive blow of losing their captain. I think they

:46:49. > :46:53.have recovered well, I really do. They have passed the ball well.

:46:54. > :47:01.They've not troubled the goalkeeper, of course, but growing into the

:47:02. > :47:05.game. Giroud might be scratching his head looking at Moussa Sissoko's

:47:06. > :47:11.display full stop When you have someone of that ability, the only

:47:12. > :47:15.other thing you can question is his mentality. Tonight, he has looked

:47:16. > :47:19.like a world beater, he's playing with an energy and desire that, as

:47:20. > :47:22.you say, we haven't really seen since the opening month of the

:47:23. > :47:36.season, the opening month of his career in England.

:47:37. > :47:38.You would think Portugal would be quite content to take this at the

:47:39. > :48:00.interval. Joao Mario wanted Nani to jump.

:48:01. > :48:06.Couldn't do it. Koscielny didn't have to. Good break, good ball.

:48:07. > :48:39.Unlucky, tries to pick Nani out. He doesn't take a gamble, Nani.

:48:40. > :48:48.Half-time in the final of the 2016 European Championship. Griezmann has

:48:49. > :48:53.come as close as anybody, kept out by Rui Patricio. We haven't had a

:48:54. > :49:00.goal, but we have had a major story. Cristiano Ronaldo forced off injured

:49:01. > :49:04.after a clash with Dimitri Payet pretty early in proceedings. It

:49:05. > :49:07.wasn't meant to be that way. Can anything stand in France's way?

:49:08. > :49:18.Portugal are, so far, 0-0. No goals, no Ronaldo, that is the

:49:19. > :49:23.story of the first half, not much to cheer one? A pretty tame affair, the

:49:24. > :49:26.big news was obviously Ronaldo. A big blow to everybody, such a shame

:49:27. > :49:30.for him and the game, because we want to see the best players on the

:49:31. > :49:34.biggest stage. Having said that, I think the game is sitting Portugal

:49:35. > :49:40.more than France. They are playing the way that we expected them to

:49:41. > :49:46.play, sitting deep, even deeper now that their superstar has gone off.

:49:47. > :49:49.There has not been too much brilliance to break them down. What

:49:50. > :49:56.you make of it from a French perspective? Sissoko has been

:49:57. > :50:02.playing so well in the first half, Matuidi as well. But in these games

:50:03. > :50:04.coming beat people in a one-on-one situation. You need to unlock

:50:05. > :50:08.something because they are difficult to play against. That is why Moussa

:50:09. > :50:12.Sissoko was playing well, because he can't beat people one-on-one. At one

:50:13. > :50:16.point you have to do that, if not it will be very difficult. The first 15

:50:17. > :50:21.minutes were lively, but when Ronaldo went off it is almost like

:50:22. > :50:25.everybody went, what do we do now? Yes, the superstar has left, who is

:50:26. > :50:36.going to unlock the door? Who will give that

:50:37. > :50:40.moment of inspiration? This game suits Portugal, they still look a

:50:41. > :50:42.threat every now and again on the counterattack. They just haven't got

:50:43. > :50:45.that potent person in front of goal. If they get out there and get out,

:50:46. > :50:48.Nani, with Ronaldo off the pitch, he might be able to express himself

:50:49. > :50:51.more. I think Renato Sanches, as well, breaking from midfield, he's

:50:52. > :50:55.done that a couple of times. France have to be careful. Matuidi is

:50:56. > :50:59.covering a lot of ground. If he can continue doing that, they will be in

:51:00. > :51:03.with a chance. France need width. White players having coming inside

:51:04. > :51:08.all the time. If they can spread the back four of the Portuguese, they

:51:09. > :51:12.will have a chance. France have generally made changes or something

:51:13. > :51:17.at half-time and be much better in the second 45 minutes? That is what

:51:18. > :51:22.I am talking about, it might be a game for Marcel, we know that both

:51:23. > :51:26.of those guys have the ability of beating people at any time, when

:51:27. > :51:31.they are on June. Who knows what he's going to do at half-time. You

:51:32. > :51:37.need somebody to make something up, if you don't do it against Portugal,

:51:38. > :51:41.it will be difficult. It will not be Ronaldo making anything happening in

:51:42. > :51:48.this game. A shame to see a huge star, in his big final? I don't

:51:49. > :51:53.think there is any blame for Payet. It was a strong, hard challenge.

:51:54. > :52:02.Very rarely do you actually see Ronaldo getting hit with tackles, he

:52:03. > :52:09.normally jumps over them. He got one tackle, comes in again.

:52:10. > :52:16.It's unlikely, that is all you can say about it. I don't think he had

:52:17. > :52:21.the intention to hurt him, I think he wanted to put in a strong tackle,

:52:22. > :52:24.let him know he is there. You don't want to injure anybody, but you want

:52:25. > :52:32.to be physical. It is unfortunate his studs got caught. Ligaments, I

:52:33. > :52:36.would say. In fairness, he did it on Sanches just before. We saw Matuidi

:52:37. > :52:42.doing it on Carvalho. The French team came out saying, listen, we are

:52:43. > :52:49.here. You don't want to see a player of that magnitude leaving the field,

:52:50. > :52:56.knowing that he won't be in another tournament. At this stage, he got

:52:57. > :53:05.very emotional. In fact, the moth now has his own Twitter account!

:53:06. > :53:15.Such other times we -- are the times we live in. Didier Deschamps, at the

:53:16. > :53:18.end of the day, Ronaldo is an amazing guy, he will go down in

:53:19. > :53:23.history as one of the best. You don't want to see one of those

:53:24. > :53:26.players leaving the field. I was part of a final where another

:53:27. > :53:30.Ronaldo was on a clean sheet, then he wasn't, and another one in 2016.

:53:31. > :53:35.You want to beat the best team you can beat. He's not going to be

:53:36. > :53:38.there, and that is the way it is. The French players will not be

:53:39. > :53:43.bothered about it, they will be delighted, the biggest threat is off

:53:44. > :53:47.the pitch. Looking at the game itself, one or two chances. Nani was

:53:48. > :53:52.the first to have an opportunity? We've not seen a lot, attacking

:53:53. > :53:57.wise, from Portugal. They haven't had one effort on target. But that

:53:58. > :54:02.was the best they gave us in that first half. Good ball, good run,

:54:03. > :54:07.poor finish. Myself and Thierry were thinking that maybe you should have

:54:08. > :54:11.checked that over the goalkeeper, but it would take something special

:54:12. > :54:15.to beat Hugo Lloris. The Griezmann header is probably the closest that

:54:16. > :54:19.they have come to? We expected Griezmann to be the one to try to

:54:20. > :54:27.unlock the door. A bit of a mistake from Pepe. Fantastic ball from Payet

:54:28. > :54:33.and a really good saved. This guy is small, but he's very good with his

:54:34. > :54:42.head. That it is what it will take, a mistake from Pepe. Payet spotted

:54:43. > :54:47.it, a great run from Griezmann. As expected, Portugal with a lot of men

:54:48. > :54:50.behind the ball, looking for counterattack, plenty of examples?

:54:51. > :54:54.It is proving frustrating for France. But it is working for

:54:55. > :54:58.Portugal at the moment. They haven't found too many ways of getting

:54:59. > :55:02.through this. They are tight, they are compact, all together. As I said

:55:03. > :55:08.beforehand, they all know their roles. At times, it is really

:55:09. > :55:11.frustrating as an opposing player, playing against a system like this.

:55:12. > :55:18.They are good at it. They know their roles. To get through it, you have

:55:19. > :55:23.to have someone like Sissoko who will look at that. Look up the

:55:24. > :55:27.number of bodies, forcing them inside, where they want them to go.

:55:28. > :55:33.In the end, they get the ball and hit you on the break. That is how

:55:34. > :55:41.you get through, quick, incisive, 1-2 passing and all of a sudden you

:55:42. > :55:44.are in the back four. Sissoko at helping because he is picking the

:55:45. > :55:49.ball up and driving through the spaces. We have seen it all season

:55:50. > :55:55.with Newcastle(!) It is a different one to what I have seen at

:55:56. > :55:59.Newcastle. Must be his twin brother? This is what you need to do at

:56:00. > :56:04.times, not all the time, but at times to make sure you unlock the

:56:05. > :56:09.back... Well, almost 11 at times. He has that in his locker. Sometimes

:56:10. > :56:13.you will say the way that he finishes what he starts, it is not

:56:14. > :56:19.what you expect. But look at this. That is what you need to do. That

:56:20. > :56:24.scares teams. Ask any midfielder, if you are playing against a midfielder

:56:25. > :56:27.that turns and will try to beat you from the central area, especially

:56:28. > :56:31.like he is doing, it is scary for a midfielder and also the back four.

:56:32. > :56:37.He is pulling people out of position. I personally love this. I

:56:38. > :56:50.don't know why he didn't curve it. But that turn was amazing. He can

:56:51. > :56:53.run all day. Want to see some goals? It is time to choose the goal of the

:56:54. > :57:15.tournament. Eight contenders coming up.

:57:16. > :57:22.Payet! What a wonderful goal! A belter in the last minute. What a

:57:23. > :57:42.goal to win a game. Goal! Luka Modric for Croatia!

:57:43. > :57:50.Falling invitingly and, quick as a flash, Modric strikes.

:57:51. > :57:57.Hamsik! Just brilliant. Just brilliant from the best player on

:57:58. > :58:17.the field. Such a sweet strike. Transfer Cristiano Ronaldo! 2-2! --

:58:18. > :58:20.chance for Ronaldo. Ronaldo becomes the first player to score at four

:58:21. > :58:30.different European Championship finals.

:58:31. > :58:41.Shaqiri! What a goal! Stunning! The little man has opened up the magic

:58:42. > :58:51.box and produced a piece of wizardry.

:58:52. > :59:04.And he took the shot, and he scores magnificently! That is even better.

:59:05. > :59:18.Good run from Aaron Ramsey. Towards Robson-Kanu. What a turn! What I

:59:19. > :59:19.goal! What a moment for Wales. Robson-Kanu, with what may well be

:59:20. > :59:38.the goal of his life. Lovely touch by Giroud. Griezmann is

:59:39. > :59:45.in! Scores! Top scorer in the competition now. Of all the people

:59:46. > :59:49.for the chance to come to, you knew he wasn't going to miss. 38 goal for

:59:50. > :59:58.club and country this season. Hasn't been a tournament of many

:59:59. > :00:01.goals, but certainly one of great goals.

:00:02. > :00:15.in the French half. Very well-balanced.

:00:16. > :00:23.The football is almost at an end, but there's another big event just

:00:24. > :01:20.the corner. -- just around the corner.

:01:21. > :02:08.Welcome to the end of the party. Griezmann! Instinctive header. A

:02:09. > :02:16.great sportsman. Great work again from Sissoko. We haven't had a goal,

:02:17. > :02:20.but we have had a major story. Goalless at half-time. The big story

:02:21. > :02:26.was Cristiano Ronaldo limped out, sadly, early. Didier Deschamps has

:02:27. > :02:30.made some dramatic and significant changes at half-time in this

:02:31. > :02:36.tournament, do you expect him to do the same now? I don't expect him to

:02:37. > :02:42.do it yet. But I think it will come pretty quickly if it stays like that

:02:43. > :02:47.because they need to have someone... Sissoko has been doing it. I don't

:02:48. > :02:51.think he'll do it yet, but maybe I'm wrong. I think substitutions will be

:02:52. > :02:59.key, the bench of France is better than Portugal. They have players to

:03:00. > :03:02.come on who have made big impacts. Portugal will play exactly the same.

:03:03. > :03:08.They'll be content with the first 45 minutes. They just have to hope one

:03:09. > :03:12.of the game changers turns up for France in the second half. A goal

:03:13. > :03:17.generally livens things up, it might come from that man, top scorer in

:03:18. > :03:24.the tournament, and one Griezmann. He's been prolific in recent games.

:03:25. > :03:28.Payet scored late on. Who knows what will happen in the second half.

:03:29. > :03:32.Let's rejoin Guy Mowbray and Danny Murphy. No changes made during the

:03:33. > :03:38.half-time interval so just that one big one in the first half, Ricardo

:03:39. > :03:43.Quaresma on in place of Cristiano Ronaldo. We did see the site of

:03:44. > :03:51.Kingsley Coman warming up on his own throughout half-time. We been

:03:52. > :03:56.speculating as to whether -- who he might come on for and when. I would

:03:57. > :04:00.have been surprised to see him instead of Payet. Sissoko has been

:04:01. > :04:06.the player of the first half. Payet has the ability to open you up in an

:04:07. > :04:12.instant. We'll see, but he still warming up. France have started the

:04:13. > :04:21.second half in hot fashion. Nani has lost it and he hobbled away from the

:04:22. > :04:29.challenge. Umtiti followed him. Trod on his foot. Yeah, it was a foul.

:04:30. > :04:37.Good play from Nani, keeping the ball for his team. When you're up

:04:38. > :04:44.there on your own, crucial. Shiny silver boots. Not offering a great

:04:45. > :04:59.deal of protection from that, though. Can't lose him, too.

:05:00. > :05:07.Some neat footwork from Adrien Silva, but then he ran into the

:05:08. > :05:10.colossus that is Paul Barber. Giroud promptly did something similar

:05:11. > :05:18.himself, straight into William Carvalho. -- Paul Pogba. Mark

:05:19. > :05:23.Clattenburg not impressed. This has been the France pattern all the way

:05:24. > :05:27.through the group stages and then against the Republic of Ireland.

:05:28. > :05:31.Their first six goals of the tournament were all scored after

:05:32. > :05:39.half-time. They didn't get going in those games early doors. They

:05:40. > :05:44.promptly scored four before the break against Iceland. Sissoko

:05:45. > :05:51.penalised. Portugal free kick. It will just be a free kick. Pepe is

:05:52. > :05:58.making the most of it. Sorry, say that again?! Forget him making the

:05:59. > :06:01.most of it, he's been superb tonight. His interceptions and

:06:02. > :06:07.reading of the game have been really, really good. I hate to see

:06:08. > :06:15.all that diving about, though. He's all right, you'll be pleased to

:06:16. > :06:19.know. When he gets on with just offending, he's one of the best

:06:20. > :06:23.around. He's been named in the European Championship team of the

:06:24. > :06:25.tournament in the last two editions of this. Very, very good footballer,

:06:26. > :06:58.but spoils it with the other stuff. Carvalho had to quicken the stride

:06:59. > :07:10.to get that away from the strong, ever willing Matuidi.

:07:11. > :07:17.Lovely touch from Joao Mario, who's got it again. Cedric was busting

:07:18. > :07:21.everything to get on the end of it. Good move. Portugal quicken things

:07:22. > :07:38.up. Nice work from the full-back again

:07:39. > :07:46.until that final ball is blocked. Easy for lorries. -- Lloris. On his

:07:47. > :07:52.way back, he casually makes sure the ball doesn't reach Sissoko. You can

:07:53. > :08:01.see just why he's made a big-money move, getting on for ten money --

:08:02. > :08:07.?10 million, from Lorient to Brucie Dortmund. I've been impressed with

:08:08. > :08:12.him. -- Borussia Dortmund. Unlucky there with his final ball. Sissoko

:08:13. > :08:14.just got his toe on it. He certainly wants to get on the ball and make

:08:15. > :08:24.things happen, the left back. Sissoko tries to leave Carvalho

:08:25. > :08:46.behind and runs into Cedric. Adrien Silva couldn't take it away

:08:47. > :08:53.from Payet, but a super tackle from Pepe. Joao Mario was more concerned

:08:54. > :08:57.with where Bakary Sako was running rather than running straight for the

:08:58. > :09:22.ball. Fernando Santos is letting him know about it. -- Bacary Sagna.

:09:23. > :09:43.Payet shoulder to shoulder with Renato Sanches.

:09:44. > :09:51.Nani needed some help there. Good to see Payet coming into central areas

:09:52. > :09:59.to try to get the ball. That's twice in the last couple of minutes. Nani

:10:00. > :10:03.foul on Sissoko. Seems to be a bit of tempo to the start of the second

:10:04. > :10:07.half. Definitely. Looks like the French got a bit of a rocket from

:10:08. > :10:12.the manager. Live on yourselves up, get on the front foot and get some

:10:13. > :10:22.attacks going. They are now get a boost from the crowd.

:10:23. > :10:33.Griezmann wasn't on the scene. Pepe was. Pepe always is. France corner.

:10:34. > :10:38.Good play again from Sissoko. He really has got the bit between his

:10:39. > :10:48.teeth tonight. Aggressive with his running, desire to get forward.

:10:49. > :10:55.Rui Patricio made his mind up very quickly to make it his and he did

:10:56. > :11:01.make it his. Good goalkeeping. Just what you want from your keeper. A

:11:02. > :11:12.lazy ball in from Griezmann. The first bad one he's hit.

:11:13. > :11:19.Arms in the air from Fernando Santos, furious that Pepe did that

:11:20. > :11:23.with it. Very demonstrative manager. He's never left the edge of the

:11:24. > :11:36.technical zone. Didier Deschamps has hardly got to his feet.

:11:37. > :11:49.Giroud not blessed with a pace that some have. He's had bad luck before

:11:50. > :11:54.in big finals against Portuguese opposition. He got Porto in the 2004

:11:55. > :11:57.Champions League final and Jose Mourinho's side dismantled his

:11:58. > :12:23.Monaco team. A good ball in from Payet. Look at

:12:24. > :12:29.that for defending. If it's not Pepe, its Fonte.

:12:30. > :12:39.We'll take another look at Pogba's strike to spare you the view of an

:12:40. > :12:43.idiot on the field. When you think about the security situation in

:12:44. > :12:48.France right now, it is no laughing matter when somebody does invade the

:12:49. > :12:59.playing surface. Everybody is on high alert of tension. Just

:13:00. > :13:02.brainless, isn't it? Just brainless. Credit to the fluorescent jacketed

:13:03. > :13:11.stewards because they were on him in the blink of an eye.

:13:12. > :13:59.William was mindful that Giroud was somewhere near. Koscielny was

:14:00. > :14:07.blocking Zhao Mario. Strong from Pogba. Needs to impose himself on

:14:08. > :14:19.the game a little bit more. Hasn't quite got himself in the game.

:14:20. > :14:26.Umtiti has to make sure he gets in front of Nani to blast the ball

:14:27. > :14:35.behind. Good move, wasn't it? Down the left-hand side. Mario getting

:14:36. > :14:41.in, a good ball. Quaresma is on the corner.

:14:42. > :14:45.Jose Fonte trying to get away from Koscielny. It won't matter with a

:14:46. > :14:58.corner like that. It was a poor clearance from

:14:59. > :14:59.Koscielny and he got mightily lucky. He did get lucky. It could have

:15:00. > :15:50.ricocheted anywhere. Really good from Matuidi. His energy

:15:51. > :15:55.levels are terrific. Keeps going after players, making you make a

:15:56. > :16:00.mistake. We are going to have the first French change. What does

:16:01. > :16:04.Didier Deschamps have up his sleeve? It's going to be Dimitri Payet,

:16:05. > :16:10.potential matchwinner with his free kick taking abilities, but France

:16:11. > :16:13.haven't had a sniff of that yet. On comes the man who started for Bayern

:16:14. > :16:22.Munich on loan from Juventus, Kingsley Coman. I find that strange.

:16:23. > :16:26.I thought Payet started the second half well, got on the ball a bit and

:16:27. > :16:31.started to have an influence. He obviously wants that pace, the

:16:32. > :16:34.ability to go past people. The lads in the studio were saying at

:16:35. > :16:47.half-time he is certainly capable of that. One-on-one, he can beat you.

:16:48. > :16:51.Griezmann, and straight at Rui Patricio, but immediately, the

:16:52. > :16:56.substitute has brought Griezmann into the game. That was good

:16:57. > :17:09.defending from Cedric. Really quick recovery from the full-back.

:17:10. > :17:20.He has had some career, by the age of 20.

:17:21. > :17:24.He is a super talent. Just has to get the consistency that comes with

:17:25. > :17:53.more games that you play. It is a final that has matched the

:17:54. > :17:57.rest of the tournament. We have had the moment. Every game has had a

:17:58. > :18:04.moment. We just haven't had enough magic.

:18:05. > :18:14.I think Portugal might be content to go the long route. I certainly can't

:18:15. > :18:41.see them taking big risks. And awkward slip for Raphael Guerreiro.

:18:42. > :19:11.Just the 17 years his junior. Not a lot in that, for me. Just getting on

:19:12. > :19:17.top, a little bit, France. First to the loose balls, the knock-downs in

:19:18. > :19:21.the middle of the pitch, Matuidi and Pogba.

:19:22. > :19:28.I was just going to say, with the two central midfield players, in

:19:29. > :19:32.Matuidi and Pogba, you miss somebody that can open up the back four from

:19:33. > :19:40.the middle of the pitch, you know? Play delicate through balls.

:19:41. > :19:50.About 20 minutes to go when they made the change in the semifinal

:19:51. > :19:51.against Germany to put Pogba further downfield, and then he immediately

:19:52. > :20:07.made goal number two. I think that one goal either way

:20:08. > :20:29.might be good enough to make. I agree.

:20:30. > :20:38.That is a lovely bit of control by Giroud. He had his foot hooked by

:20:39. > :20:56.Joao Mario, who will be booked. Good touch from Giroud. Cynical

:20:57. > :21:03.trip, no-brainer for Mr Clattenburg. Get the yellow out.

:21:04. > :21:19.If ever there was a will from the crowd, this is it, now.

:21:20. > :21:34.That was a good duel. The daddy of the team now once everyone to lift

:21:35. > :21:41.it a bit. Good defending again from Cedric.

:21:42. > :22:09.A Portugal change is imminent. They are going to put Moutinho into the

:22:10. > :22:23.action. That was always Rui Patricio's ball.

:22:24. > :22:29.Right idea, try to get some balls behind, use that pace. Why bring him

:22:30. > :22:31.on, if not? Problem is, you are up against a full-back that is pretty

:22:32. > :22:45.quick as well. Pogba didn't have an option other

:22:46. > :23:43.than to go backwards. Sagna, a disappointing cross from

:23:44. > :23:54.the Manchester City man. Evra as well, overhit, loads of time.

:23:55. > :24:03.Coman is demanding the ball plenty. That cross, and Griezmann misses his

:24:04. > :24:15.chance! Ball of the match, chance of the match. What a cross. What a bad

:24:16. > :24:23.miss from a very good header of the ball. We saw in the last game how

:24:24. > :24:32.good he can be. A man of his quality and his standards. A bad miss, huge

:24:33. > :24:39.chance. Huge chance. Portugal substitution, their second. Adrien

:24:40. > :24:42.Silva, born in France, makes way for a player based in France, at least

:24:43. > :24:46.for the moment. Joao Moutinho has been a Monaco man for the last few

:24:47. > :24:51.seasons. He is rumoured to be making a return to one of his former clubs,

:24:52. > :25:00.auto. Joao Moutinho is generally seen as a chance maker. -- Porto. He

:25:01. > :25:06.has an array of passes, he is skilful, very creative. Definitely a

:25:07. > :25:08.positive substitution. He worked hard, Adrien Silva. Covered every

:25:09. > :25:19.blade. Tenacious midfielder. It is already quite evident the way

:25:20. > :25:22.Adrien Silva went off, the time that Rui Patricio truck with that

:25:23. > :25:41.clearance, Portugal are in no great hurry.

:25:42. > :25:51.Kingsley Coman's drive. Well, well wide.

:25:52. > :25:57.Had he managed to burst the net with that, it might have been a contender

:25:58. > :26:01.for the goal of the tournament. Just a reminder that you can go to the

:26:02. > :26:05.BBC sport website to cast your vote for what you think has been the best

:26:06. > :26:11.goal of Euro 2016. Voting closes at the end of normal time. Rui Patricio

:26:12. > :26:33.has done that quite a lot, I should think.

:26:34. > :26:43.Giroud just tries to get into Rui Patricio's face.

:26:44. > :26:49.The Portugal players will not mind the noises coming from the French

:26:50. > :26:53.fans. They are doing exactly what they should do, keeping the ball,

:26:54. > :26:59.making France come out. France have to get on the front of us and try

:27:00. > :27:12.and win the ball back. -- the front foot.

:27:13. > :27:20.That looked more of a posh, than shoulder to shoulder from Joao

:27:21. > :27:27.Mario, who has to watch his step a little. No need to do it. Quaresma

:27:28. > :27:30.put in a great cross, somebody has to be busting a gut to try to get in

:27:31. > :27:39.there and get on the end of that, in a dangerous area. Portugal have not

:27:40. > :27:45.registered a shot on target yet. We mentioned earlier, the final that

:27:46. > :27:52.they lost on home soil, 1- 02 Greece in 2004, the only goal of the game

:27:53. > :27:53.in that one was Greece's only shot on target. It could happen all over

:27:54. > :28:07.again. A similar defensive mindset all the

:28:08. > :28:11.way through that tournament, Greece, and it worked for them. I still

:28:12. > :28:20.think they have to be careful not to try and play for a draw, they have

:28:21. > :28:43.to try and make a few chances. It was Umtiti who helped it across.

:28:44. > :28:52.That lovely line from Fernando Santos, questioned about his team's

:28:53. > :28:56.playing style, being pretty and being at home, or being ugly and

:28:57. > :29:00.being here, I would prefer to be ugly. Well, you know how he feels. I

:29:01. > :29:47.keep setting you up! Only Nani in the box, and he is

:29:48. > :29:53.outnumbered. And the pass goes the wrong way. That has been the story

:29:54. > :29:57.of their night, hasn't it? Getting to those areas quite nicely, then no

:29:58. > :30:06.end product. No cutting edge in the final third. The wrong decision.

:30:07. > :30:11.This is up to France and now, surely? This is their game? The

:30:12. > :30:14.tempo is not quick enough, I'd like to see more urgency, try to press

:30:15. > :30:18.them higher, force them into some errors like they did early in the

:30:19. > :30:24.game. Right now, it is quite easy for Portugal.

:30:25. > :30:34.Nice control from Coman. Here's the young sub once more, Kingsley Coman

:30:35. > :30:37.forced wide. Nobody in the middle to help him out. France corner, but it

:30:38. > :30:44.might have been a bit more than that. That's better. Speed of the

:30:45. > :30:52.attack. The young man, Coman, the substitute. Pogba is ready to jump.

:30:53. > :31:09.Missed by everybody. Excellent control in a tight spot by

:31:10. > :31:15.Sanches and really good policing by Sissoko, who is away again. Stopped

:31:16. > :31:20.by Nani. Fouled by Nani. That's got the benches to their feet. Some

:31:21. > :31:28.passion on the touchline now. Might be what the match and needs. He was

:31:29. > :31:29.fouled. I'm not so sure. What happened to a good old shoulder to

:31:30. > :32:00.shoulder? Claiming a foul, Moutinho. You just get little sparks of France

:32:01. > :32:02.upping their game and then it all quiet and is down again. They must

:32:03. > :32:23.maintain the momentum. Coman couldn't have done much more

:32:24. > :32:32.than he has done since leaving the bench. Towards Giroud. A miss kick

:32:33. > :33:14.from Sagna, but Koscielny is there to help him.

:33:15. > :33:24.Giroud brings the save from Rui Patricio.

:33:25. > :33:34.Sissoko, one of his first models of the match. It's a good stretch from

:33:35. > :33:41.Zhao Mario. He's only got Nani with him. Quaresma is trying to help out.

:33:42. > :33:49.Renato Sanches there as well, but also many blue shirts.

:33:50. > :33:57.Cedric Soares took too long and allowed Matuidi to get there and get

:33:58. > :34:01.in the way of it. A good chance the Giroud, but made by that man again,

:34:02. > :34:10.the young substitute, really trying to make an impression, Coman.

:34:11. > :34:16.Comparisons with Franck Ribery and you can see why. Bustling, trying to

:34:17. > :34:22.make things happen, a bit of inventiveness in the French game

:34:23. > :34:26.now. He's been nice and brave. He even slipped during that run and

:34:27. > :34:38.managed to come out with the ball. He's certainly made a difference.

:34:39. > :34:46.Interesting change that France are about to make. Giroud to come off

:34:47. > :34:58.and Gignac to come on. Portugal coming on strong. Griezmann has to

:34:59. > :35:27.withstand a challenge from behind by William.

:35:28. > :35:31.Giroud got in Griezmann's way. He was set to hit that with his left

:35:32. > :36:01.foot. A substitute apiece ready to come

:36:02. > :36:06.on. Andre-Pierre Gignac for France and Portugal throwing a forward into

:36:07. > :36:10.the mix, too, with Eder ready. A straight swap for France.

:36:11. > :36:19.Like-for-like at the top end, Giroud off and Gignac on. Giroud's chance

:36:20. > :36:29.there. Didn't quite catch it. A tight angle, decent save from the

:36:30. > :36:34.goalkeeper. The Portugal substitution is going to see Renato

:36:35. > :36:39.Sanches come off. He's dropped in energy. He hasn't been demanding the

:36:40. > :36:43.ball. He's hardly been in the action in the last ten to 15 minutes, but

:36:44. > :36:51.he can be very pleased with his tournament. Showing great maturity

:36:52. > :36:59.for such a young man, super talent. Eder to come on. Didn't exactly burn

:37:00. > :37:10.it up at Swansea in the first half of the season and went to Lil --

:37:11. > :37:15.Lille on loan, a move which has now been made permanent. Portugal with a

:37:16. > :37:29.target man now. I think you'll see Nani go into a wider area.

:37:30. > :37:44.It hit Sissoko, who was unlucky. Was just a little flick off the back of

:37:45. > :37:52.the head. Goalkick for Rui Patricio to take plenty of time with. A bit

:37:53. > :37:54.of fortune for Portugal. The dummy goalkick doesn't go down well with

:37:55. > :38:05.most of the crowd. Joao Mario, on a booking and he's

:38:06. > :38:11.had a talking to since. Portugal have used all their substitutes now.

:38:12. > :38:16.Really awkward! And another save from Lloris. He was very nearly

:38:17. > :38:24.beaten first time by Nani. Not sure what Lloris is doing. A mishit from

:38:25. > :38:35.Nani, but just catch. Immediately down the other end. Eder bunt

:38:36. > :38:40.unfairly by Umtiti, free kick to Portugal. And a yellow card for the

:38:41. > :38:45.young centre back. I tell you what is evident from just that one bit of

:38:46. > :38:51.good attacking play... If Annie -- if Nani can get one-on-one with

:38:52. > :39:00.Evra, he will cause problems. And chest United team-mates of old. --

:39:01. > :39:09.Manchester United. Nani really has gone wide.

:39:10. > :39:17.Less than ten minutes of the 90 to go. This really is in the balance.

:39:18. > :39:31.It's got the feel of a one goal game. Yeah, definitely.

:39:32. > :39:39.This is where I'm talking about France, they can come and press this

:39:40. > :39:49.ball. Take a bit more of a risk, come out of position and apply some

:39:50. > :39:56.pressure. Nice Portugal move. It was there to be struck and strike it

:39:57. > :40:00.hard Nani gate. It was a good move, nice build-up. Not much pressure on

:40:01. > :40:09.the ball. Before you know it, you're in shooting distance. Seems to be...

:40:10. > :40:15.They are taking more time about it. Almost as much belief in the

:40:16. > :40:29.Portugal team now as there is in players in blue.

:40:30. > :40:39.Eder was in a little late on Umtiti and Mark Clattenburg saw it. Shows a

:40:40. > :40:44.Fonte on guard, as he has been all day. A great story, international

:40:45. > :40:48.debut just short of his 31st birthday. He would never have

:40:49. > :40:51.thought he would be in this sort of occasion. He's played well.

:40:52. > :41:05.Goalkick. Frustration for Didier Deschamps. He

:41:06. > :41:09.knows they've got more. They have had the better chances, of course

:41:10. > :41:19.they have, but they've still not played... He doesn't look best

:41:20. > :41:23.please! -- best pleased. Might have been a few thoughts of why didn't

:41:24. > :41:32.our number seven stay fit and on the field? That sort of player that wins

:41:33. > :41:38.a game as delicately balanced as this. Yeah. We'll never know, I'm

:41:39. > :41:42.afraid. What he can be proud of is their performance since he went off.

:41:43. > :41:45.They've dug in and played some OK football. They've lacked creativity

:41:46. > :41:59.and a cutting edge, but they've stayed in the game.

:42:00. > :42:14.Umtiti allowed to advance. Sissoko! Terrific strike. Sissoko is on it

:42:15. > :42:23.again. That would trouble Rui Patricio quite so much. -- won't

:42:24. > :42:31.trouble. Really positive again from Sissoko. A long way out, but it's a

:42:32. > :42:41.good strike. Decent save from the goalkeeper, one you would expect him

:42:42. > :42:45.to make. That was flying. Sissoko has hurt himself in going for the

:42:46. > :42:49.follow-up header. He is still down and will need a bit of treatment.

:42:50. > :42:57.Plenty of water being taken on board. It is a particularly warm and

:42:58. > :43:01.muggy night in Paris. As things stand, there's going to be an extra

:43:02. > :43:11.half-hour of football to be played. In the humidity.

:43:12. > :43:23.Five finals in the past have gone to extra time. If it does go that way,

:43:24. > :43:27.let's hope we have a little bit more fun and games to watch than we've

:43:28. > :43:35.seen in most of the extra half hours in some of the games at Euro 16.

:43:36. > :43:39.Only one goal scored in extra time. That was whereas late on for

:43:40. > :43:43.Portugal against Croatia. -- that Quaresma. We're not there yet.

:43:44. > :44:01.Nearly. I don't think Shelley was thanking

:44:02. > :44:08.Sissoko for that one. Gignac, first time he's got on the ball. Positive

:44:09. > :44:37.from Gignac. The shot blocked by Raphael Guerreiro.

:44:38. > :44:46.Griezmann came running towards him, but not an option that he wanted to

:44:47. > :44:56.use. A very good tackle from Joao Moutinho. In came Matuidi, too

:44:57. > :44:57.strong. Good play, strong, get the body in, get the free kick for your

:44:58. > :45:18.team. Eder tried to set him up. Brilliant

:45:19. > :45:22.from Matuidi on a give and go. It's all becoming a little bit desperate.

:45:23. > :45:31.Both teams are trying to win it if they can. It's not a bad idea from

:45:32. > :45:35.Sissoko. A positive run, just overhit pass. There are some tired

:45:36. > :45:50.legs out there, understandably. Massive occasion, warm evening.

:45:51. > :46:08.Evra can't put the brakes on and find reverse.

:46:09. > :46:14.It might not get you on the edge of your seat as often as some other

:46:15. > :46:20.teams, but you can't help but admire Portugal for their rigidity,

:46:21. > :46:27.stubbornness. They won't be beaten easily. No, as I said earlier,

:46:28. > :46:28.really well drilled, disciplined, fit, strong, they know how to

:46:29. > :46:38.defend. He was a defender in his playing

:46:39. > :46:46.days, Fernando Santos. Long gone, those, though.

:46:47. > :46:48.If the floodlights go coming he's got a degree in electrical

:46:49. > :47:05.engineering. Quaresma couldn't do a great deal

:47:06. > :47:13.with it. It was a bad touch, the ball was fine. Although that looked

:47:14. > :47:15.like it was ending with a nice friendly touch, I don't think

:47:16. > :47:36.Koscielny was best pleased about it. 90 seconds of the 90 minutes to go,

:47:37. > :47:50.two or three to be added on, maybe. Time for the big push.

:47:51. > :47:58.Pogba has not been freed from his defensive duties at all. Gignac had

:47:59. > :48:13.wandered offside. Delicately curled in a Manuel

:48:14. > :48:15.watched by Rui Patricio. Could easily have been put off by the

:48:16. > :48:57.battle going on between Pepe. Nani. And we are into the first of

:48:58. > :49:00.three minutes that will be added on. Great tackle by Koscielny, cleanly

:49:01. > :49:06.away from Nani's boots. That is not going to work from

:49:07. > :49:30.Gignac. Pogba wants more movement from

:49:31. > :49:49.Gignac and Griezmann. He's not a playmaker, Pogba. You can

:49:50. > :49:55.spray a ball in, occasionally. It is better getting shots off, making

:49:56. > :50:01.runs into the box. 100 million worth? Not for me. Might be for

:50:02. > :50:08.somebody. He's a good player, don't get me wrong. 100 million? No.

:50:09. > :50:22.Gignac! But he hits the post! The goal was his!

:50:23. > :50:31.I don't think we are going to get a chance any better than that.

:50:32. > :50:37.Sometimes you start thinking, as a footballer, it might not be your

:50:38. > :50:40.night. Just putting it out there! Andre-Pierre Gignac did everything

:50:41. > :51:04.but the goal. Gignac is offside. There will be a

:51:05. > :51:13.few mutterings about that. A man who used to play for Marseille, not

:51:14. > :51:17.exactly the flavour of the month in this area, anyway. The groans when

:51:18. > :51:22.the replay was shown. Scuffs it into the ground.

:51:23. > :51:29.They used to have a special chant for him in Paris, poking fun at his

:51:30. > :51:42.physique. He looks pretty fit to me. He does. Big Mac for Gignac was the

:51:43. > :51:48.chant. Other burgers are available. I'm glad that you said it!

:51:49. > :51:55.Time is almost up. The three minutes have been played, time is up. We are

:51:56. > :51:59.going to have extra time. Another 30 minutes, we might even have a

:52:00. > :52:03.penalty shoot out to decide who becomes the European champions. It

:52:04. > :52:05.can only get ever more exciting, I guess, from here. Let's hope so.

:52:06. > :52:17.0-0. No question that France went closest

:52:18. > :52:19.to scoring, Gignac at the end. Goalless. The first European

:52:20. > :52:24.Championship final to finish goalless. If it remains that way, it

:52:25. > :52:31.goes to a penalty shoot out. There is always something to look forward

:52:32. > :52:35.to at the end, however dour it might be. This game sums up the

:52:36. > :52:40.tournament, for me, if I'm honest. Pretty dull, pretty boring. France,

:52:41. > :52:44.without playing particularly well, have had chances to have won that

:52:45. > :52:49.game, to win the tournament. They haven't, and they might regret that.

:52:50. > :52:54.Portugal, exactly the same thing for the vast majority of the game, sit

:52:55. > :53:00.deep, in the hope they might get a set piece, a piece of brilliance

:53:01. > :53:04.from someone. Without that guy, Ronaldo, you just felt that they are

:53:05. > :53:08.lacking a little bit of edge. Interesting to see Ronaldo coming

:53:09. > :53:12.out at the end of 90 minutes to perhaps motivate the players, get

:53:13. > :53:16.them going. He wants that title as much as anyone? I think so. He wants

:53:17. > :53:22.to get his hands on that. He's the captain, he wants to lift it. He is

:53:23. > :53:26.a team man. People think he is an egotistical fellow, but his drive is

:53:27. > :53:29.to be the best, and to be the best you need a platform of a good team

:53:30. > :53:33.around you and he appreciates that, he knows that. I think Portugal are

:53:34. > :53:38.really sitting and waiting to go to penalties, I think. The way they

:53:39. > :53:43.have played and performed, defended very well. Not risking much at all.

:53:44. > :53:49.Not easy against Portugal, Thierry, but have you been disappointed with

:53:50. > :53:53.the performance? In fairness, I was waiting for this kind of final,

:53:54. > :54:01.calling for somebody to unlock something. At least he was trying to

:54:02. > :54:06.do it, and he put almost the perfect ball for Griezmann, you would have

:54:07. > :54:15.backed Griezmann to score the goal. Gignac created his own chance, when

:54:16. > :54:21.the ball hit the post. I don't want to try... This is what we are going

:54:22. > :54:25.to see now. It would have been amazing if he scored that goal.

:54:26. > :54:42.But what if? Not far from where he is from, why not? He can be the guy

:54:43. > :54:46.that can unlock the situation today, I am not Didier Deschamps, I am

:54:47. > :54:51.throwing it out there. This kind of game, I have played so many finals

:54:52. > :54:59.when it is very tight, and not easy. It is tight, it is tense, Griezmann

:55:00. > :55:03.had a really good chance? He did. We just thought he was on his way down,

:55:04. > :55:07.trying to head it on the way down, which is difficult. Trying to glance

:55:08. > :55:13.it, rather than getting the neck muscles going, power behind it. A

:55:14. > :55:18.good chance. As was this, for Giroud? And Coman is at the centre

:55:19. > :55:21.of both of those chances, looking to commit people, take them on and ask

:55:22. > :55:25.questions of defenders as individuals. People like that become

:55:26. > :55:29.very important as the game goes on, they can be decisive. He could be

:55:30. > :55:35.playing against Fulham the first game of the season next season,

:55:36. > :55:39.Sissoko, he has been the best player on the pitch. Was a Sissoko, for me,

:55:40. > :55:48.is the Man of the Match in the final. He has been the driving

:55:49. > :55:52.force, the one that has been prepared to run into defence, into

:55:53. > :55:55.the spaces that have been created. That is what has been lacking in the

:55:56. > :56:00.French team. Everything has been a little bit slow, hasn't it? The

:56:01. > :56:03.build-up, the passing. It is bravery as well. People think bravery is

:56:04. > :56:07.just about going for tackles, sometimes it is receiving the ball

:56:08. > :56:14.and saying, I'm going to take the team forward. Sissoko done that

:56:15. > :56:20.great today. That is why I am talking about Martial. We have seen

:56:21. > :56:24.at times, Coman the ball that he gives to Giroud, he overdid it, but

:56:25. > :56:27.he created something, he got up and gives the ball. It's about

:56:28. > :56:35.commitment, desire, trying to go forward. Martial has not in his

:56:36. > :56:39.locker, maybe he's going to think about that. It looks like it will be

:56:40. > :56:45.a mistake that will decide the game. So often the way. The Icelandic

:56:46. > :56:51.chant we have seen so many times that this particular tournament.

:56:52. > :56:56.Here we go. Another 30 minutes. Will that decide it or will we go all the

:56:57. > :57:07.way to a penalty shoot out? We will see, with Danny and Guy.

:57:08. > :57:14.It does seem that way. No sign of Anthony Martial, but they do have

:57:15. > :57:21.that option. Some stretches on the touchline. Yohan Cabaye alongside

:57:22. > :57:27.him. Only one substitute available now for Didier Deschamps. The last

:57:28. > :57:31.time France were European champions, they won it in extra time. It was a

:57:32. > :57:37.Golden Goal, we don't have those available this time. I quite liked

:57:38. > :57:42.that, the Golden Goal. They tried it twice and scrapped it because it

:57:43. > :57:45.made extra time to negative, teams were frightened of conceding. Well,

:57:46. > :57:51.they haven't exactly been positive in this tournament. I think... Yeah,

:57:52. > :57:55.there is an argument for both sides. My personal experience of it, we won

:57:56. > :58:06.the Uefa cup with Liverpool with a Golden Goal. I think it was against

:58:07. > :58:11.Alves. We went in on the front foot, thinking, let's get this done and

:58:12. > :58:24.not take the risk of penalties. Not every team does that, of course.

:58:25. > :58:27.This is the first time that France have been forced into two hours of

:58:28. > :58:52.football. Umtiti is Barcelona bound after this

:58:53. > :59:15.competition. Coman was trying to divert it into

:59:16. > :00:22.Griezmann's path. For Les Bleus to go Allez, they need

:00:23. > :00:27.the ball. We'll see how badly they want it. It's up to them now. Do

:00:28. > :00:34.they want to take the risk of penalties or do they have the energy

:00:35. > :00:39.and desire to get after Portugal? A bit of tension, a bit of fear factor

:00:40. > :00:54.and we shouldn't underestimate the fatigue, too.

:00:55. > :01:05.Free kick Portugal. He's done OK when he's come on, nice and strong,

:01:06. > :01:16.kept the ball for his team and earned a few free kicks. He was

:01:17. > :01:22.pulled to the floor by Umtiti. You know who wouldn't have thought twice

:01:23. > :01:25.about striking it from here. Ricardo Quaresma looks more secure in the

:01:26. > :01:32.thought of hoisting one into the air. Nice ball from Quaresma. The

:01:33. > :01:36.book -- the flag is up. Wide of the target from Pepe anywhere. A few

:01:37. > :01:48.French hearts were in mouse when they saw him rise. -- mouths. It's a

:01:49. > :01:58.good ball, he's a yard off. Unlucky from Portugal. Ronaldo's up! Just as

:01:59. > :02:03.much -- he did just as much as Fernando Santos did during the

:02:04. > :02:10.break. He went round every one of them. Sissoko has been going around

:02:11. > :02:14.everyone of them all match. A yellow card for Raphael Guerreiro. I've

:02:15. > :02:21.seen Pepe score many good headers. He's a real threat. If anyone in the

:02:22. > :02:28.Portugal side deserves to score a winning goal, it would be that man,

:02:29. > :02:30.he's been sensational tonight. The France number three, Patrice Evra,

:02:31. > :02:47.running straight into Nani. A tired ball into the box from

:02:48. > :03:01.Blaise Matuidi. I wonder when Didier Deschamps will

:03:02. > :03:09.decide to play the last card are vulnerable. -- available. He surely

:03:10. > :03:11.will at some point. I think so. Martial would be the obvious call

:03:12. > :03:49.with his ability to go past people. It's a horrible fall from Eder, the

:03:50. > :03:53.former Swansea striker. Blaise Matuidi is apologising, but it won't

:03:54. > :03:58.stop him from getting a booking. We're going to see this now from the

:03:59. > :04:07.Portuguese now. They'll take their time, stay on the floor. Miss Tweedy

:04:08. > :04:13.has done nothing wrong, he's stopped, -- Matuidi. It's not a

:04:14. > :04:27.booking. Tried to make sure that the collision didn't happen.

:04:28. > :04:35.Pepe on the ball and he'll take as long as he likes about it.

:04:36. > :04:44.I've been really impressed with Nani. His fitness levels, strength,

:04:45. > :04:45.variation in his play, sometimes spinning, sometimes coming to feet.

:04:46. > :05:02.Really good. Lost by Cedric, who is now chasing

:05:03. > :05:07.Coman. Coman is rather crudely bundled over by William Carvalho.

:05:08. > :05:14.That was just a case of stop him at all costs. The cost is a card. You

:05:15. > :05:19.hear it said a lot by former players, it's a clever one. Cynical,

:05:20. > :05:29.but needed. Stop the momentum, stop the flow.

:05:30. > :05:38.Griezmann is coming back to take this free kick.

:05:39. > :05:47.Griezmann is still not making his way into the box.

:05:48. > :06:10.Matuidi's energy levels have been absolutely brilliant. He's been

:06:11. > :06:24.nonstop. Thierry Audel about him in the studio -- Thierry talked about

:06:25. > :06:29.him. Couldn't stop the corner, it crossed the line. Fernando Santos is

:06:30. > :06:36.taking issue with that call. I think it did.

:06:37. > :06:45.Certainly did. France corner. 10th minute of the first half of extra

:06:46. > :06:52.time. Another one successfully repelled by

:06:53. > :07:00.the Portuguese back line. Koscielny was caught. Griezmann

:07:01. > :07:28.tries to play Gignac in. He can't win the corner. He was

:07:29. > :07:34.trying to play it off the shins of his opponent. I think it is a

:07:35. > :07:41.corner. It is. He looked frustrated with himself. He'd beaten him at one

:07:42. > :07:46.point and then he tried to beat him again. Koscielny is battling on. He

:07:47. > :07:51.took a real whack as he slipped to poke the ball to a team-mate to keep

:07:52. > :07:57.the pressing going. Trying to attack this, but well over him and it went

:07:58. > :08:02.past everyone. The crowd not happy. Griezmann has not had a night, he's

:08:03. > :08:06.had a tournament, but a stinker tonight. He's not been up to his

:08:07. > :08:11.normal standard. I wouldn't say a stinker. I think it's been hard for

:08:12. > :08:16.him in a congested area off the pitch where he likes to get on the

:08:17. > :08:23.ball. The header was probably his big moment. He somehow missed the

:08:24. > :08:32.target. But good players keep going. He's still got time to be the hero.

:08:33. > :08:36.Has he dropped too deep? At times. I think at times he has. He wants to

:08:37. > :08:51.get on the ball and make things happen.

:08:52. > :09:01.A quizzical look from Moussa Sissoko. He's done OK, Gignac, since

:09:02. > :09:04.he's come on. He's got good feet for a big man. We saw that when he put

:09:05. > :09:40.Pepe on his farm. -- on his bottom. Portugal corner kick. Gignac is

:09:41. > :09:48.charging back to be an extra defender. Here come Pepe and Fonte.

:09:49. > :09:51.This is their best chance by a mile. Set play. Can Pepe or Fonte use

:09:52. > :10:00.their power and their presence? Koscielny on Fonte. Umtiti pushed to

:10:01. > :10:14.the floor by Pepe. Mark Clattenburg has had a

:10:15. > :10:22.relatively comfortable night and he's handled it well. Just sort this

:10:23. > :10:29.one out. The corner will finally come into the penalty area.

:10:30. > :10:37.A lot of pushing and shoving, you can see where Quaresma is trying to

:10:38. > :10:38.put it. It is a good delivery to just the right place. Lloris

:10:39. > :10:55.couldn't hold it. Smothered by Joao Mario. Did so

:10:56. > :10:57.well, Joao Mario. Tracked back. Great fitness levels. A chance for

:10:58. > :11:27.Portugal. Lloris is quite happy to let that

:11:28. > :11:29.curl away from him. This is the chance from Eder. A good header

:11:30. > :11:41.down. Pogba trying to get himself into

:11:42. > :12:21.advanced positions now. Half-time in extra time. As has been

:12:22. > :12:25.the case with the extra time periods at Euro 2016, not a great deal

:12:26. > :12:31.happened. We did have one big moment. That was for Portugal. But

:12:32. > :12:35.somehow, for either team, it just will not go in. It's getting

:12:36. > :12:43.increasingly hard to see how it will. Portugal, we know, are happy

:12:44. > :12:47.for it to go to penalties. They will make one on a set play if they get

:12:48. > :12:51.an opportunity, of course, they'll take that all day, but it's up to

:12:52. > :12:57.the French, really, to move higher up the French as a team, as a unit,

:12:58. > :13:00.press higher and for some mistakes from Portugal. I don't know whether

:13:01. > :13:06.they've got the energy to do it. Griezmann looks tired now. He could

:13:07. > :13:11.bring on Martial, who would give them pace. Is that something that

:13:12. > :13:17.surprised you? The area was talking about it a while ago. There's 15

:13:18. > :13:25.minutes to go. Martial must be an option. It has surprised me. If you

:13:26. > :13:29.want to win a game sometimes, you have to change the personnel and it

:13:30. > :13:36.got a bit flat in the latter stages. He's got 15 minutes. Maybe now is as

:13:37. > :13:40.good a time as any with the Portuguese defenders being tired.

:13:41. > :13:48.Martial's dribbling ability, of course. Huddles are the order of the

:13:49. > :13:52.day. Mark Clattenburg has blown his whistle. Both sets of players and

:13:53. > :13:59.management teams will go into a circle. We can see Didier Deschamps

:14:00. > :14:03.emphasising to his team exactly what he wants from them in the quarter of

:14:04. > :14:07.an hour ahead. If we were to get a glimpse of the other side of the

:14:08. > :14:12.halfway line, Cristiano Ronaldo has been giving the Portuguese battle

:14:13. > :14:17.cry. When you talk about fitness levels of players, this is where it

:14:18. > :14:25.becomes so important. Physically can you cope? Can you do it? And then

:14:26. > :14:28.the mentality. Can you stay strong? Good decision-making? Staying on

:14:29. > :14:32.your feet at the right times, not diving in, not giving the ball away

:14:33. > :14:37.in city areas, and then that bit of magic in the final third. Can

:14:38. > :14:44.somebody produce that memorable moment? Gignac has come as close as

:14:45. > :14:48.anybody to scoring. I was going to say rattling the woodwork, but it

:14:49. > :14:50.didn't rattle, it dribbled against the post. He did the hard bit really

:14:51. > :15:03.well. Great bit of skill. There is just one more change left

:15:04. > :15:11.for France if they want to use it. When did we last see a really good

:15:12. > :15:18.final? I'm trying to think. We have another bit of incident. Joao

:15:19. > :15:29.Moutinho, I think that Mark Clattenburg is waving away calls for

:15:30. > :15:30.further punishment to Matuidi, who is already in the referee's book.

:15:31. > :15:49.Didn't touch him. A free kick for Portugal, generally

:15:50. > :15:51.right, generally when the boot goes that high. It absolutely right not

:15:52. > :15:58.to card him. Fonte couldn't quite get Ronaldo

:15:59. > :16:21.style and hang a time. The one that is warming up most

:16:22. > :16:28.vigorously is Cabaye. I think Martial looks pretty annoyed.

:16:29. > :16:39.Claims for handball, and gets it. Free kick for Portugal. A strike --

:16:40. > :16:49.one which can be struck. That is a yellow card for Koscielny. Is saying

:16:50. > :16:55.it's not him. It wasn't. It was the hand of Eder. Well! What a

:16:56. > :17:04.contentious call that is. Yes, but that's OK. It won't be for France,

:17:05. > :17:07.if that applies in. That's true, but I understand how he got it wrong. --

:17:08. > :17:26.flies in. Struck differently, against the bar!

:17:27. > :17:41.Caught everybody out! Looked to be all about Quaresma. What an effort.

:17:42. > :17:45.He has beat Lloris. Actually, he is there, to be fair. His hand is

:17:46. > :17:52.there. But it's a great effort, isn't it?

:17:53. > :17:59.Twice, Portugal have hit the frame of the French goal.

:18:00. > :18:13.Well, once each. It's a long game, isn't it? You had me thinking,

:18:14. > :18:19.there. You can see why Dortmund have paid that money for him. Super

:18:20. > :18:26.striker! Eder smashes Portugal to the verge

:18:27. > :18:42.of glory. The Stade de France is stunned, but

:18:43. > :18:50.for a huge pocket of Portuguese. He meant that. I was talking a couple

:18:51. > :18:55.of minutes ago about magical moments. I certainly didn't expect

:18:56. > :19:03.it to come from this man. But what a goal. We talk about strength, touch.

:19:04. > :19:12.Why not? Smashes it into the bottom corner. What a goal! I'm not sure

:19:13. > :19:20.what the celebration is about, but who cares? That could be the biggest

:19:21. > :19:26.moment of his life. The French inquest begins, Fernando Santos is

:19:27. > :19:31.the only body in the Portugal camp that managed to keep a lid on it.

:19:32. > :19:37.Tears from Cristiano Ronaldo. They are almost there, just over ten

:19:38. > :19:45.minutes. Sissoko is off, and finally Martial is on. Rescue mission for

:19:46. > :19:47.France? Ice and urgency now from the French. -- I can see some urgency

:19:48. > :20:10.from the French. Portugal goalkick. See how long Rui

:20:11. > :20:14.Patricio takes with this one. Eder, bit part player. We have hardly seen

:20:15. > :20:20.him this tournament. I tell you what, since he came on, he has been

:20:21. > :20:27.a handful. Came to Swansea for about ?5 million from Braga at the start

:20:28. > :20:31.of last season. Never hit the target for the Swans. He has only gone and

:20:32. > :20:37.done it in the biggest game of all Europe. The biggest game of his

:20:38. > :20:43.life. If it is to be the winner, it will be remembered for ever, he will

:20:44. > :21:00.be in the history books. A player who plays in France, for Lille.

:21:01. > :21:35.Koscielny goes in strongly and it is a France

:21:36. > :21:50.Rui Patricio, what a good catch. Patricia is... Did you say Patricia?

:21:51. > :21:55.I'm still in shock, honestly. What a shot that was. He's had a good

:21:56. > :22:04.tournament, Portugal's goalkeeper, Sporting Lisbon's number one for

:22:05. > :22:07.nearly a decade now. Maybe France will be ruing not doing things with

:22:08. > :22:12.more pace in the game as a whole? Exactly that. They left a Martial on

:22:13. > :22:15.the bench for too long. They were happy to pass the ball around. There

:22:16. > :22:29.wasn't enough urgency in the play. Pepe decided he couldn't take the

:22:30. > :22:33.chance and he has knocked it behind for a corner. It's about the first

:22:34. > :22:37.time they haven't been on the same page. He's right, if you are not

:22:38. > :22:46.sure, if you can't hear, get rid of the danger.

:22:47. > :22:54.Here go Portugal, on the counter, with Joao Mario seeing Quaresma

:22:55. > :23:12.across the field. Just over by Quaresma.

:23:13. > :23:20.Ronaldo is kicking every ball. He looks pretty fit down there, the

:23:21. > :23:25.moment. It is worse when you are in the dugout sometimes, when you have

:23:26. > :23:28.come off, or you are a substitute, you want the team to do well and you

:23:29. > :23:32.can't do a thing about it. You feel like a fan. Portugal angry, because

:23:33. > :23:51.they felt sure that Eder was pushed. Steered away by William Carvalho.

:23:52. > :24:00.He's played well, he's defended so well. Joao Mario has found an extra

:24:01. > :24:06.gear from somewhere. He seemed spent not long ago. He has been hauled to

:24:07. > :24:09.the floor by Pogba. The discipline, the balance, the tenacity of this

:24:10. > :24:17.Portuguese side has been really impressive. They have written their

:24:18. > :24:24.luck at times, you have to. Effort, commitment, every single one of

:24:25. > :24:34.them. Eder, at the moment, getting the fans going.

:24:35. > :24:38.Portugal, five and a bit minutes away from their first ever major

:24:39. > :24:58.trophy. If anybody can get to that, Martial

:24:59. > :25:03.can, but he is policed really smartly by Cedric. Good defending,

:25:04. > :25:08.wasn't it? I said that so many times. Trusted his pace. Go on, try

:25:09. > :25:17.and run me. I'm as quick as you. No chance. Portugal on the verge of

:25:18. > :25:19.tournament history as well. Only two other teams have reached the

:25:20. > :25:24.European Championship or World Cup final from finishing third in their

:25:25. > :25:30.group. Remember, they were on the verge of going out when they drew

:25:31. > :25:36.3-3 with Hungary in Lyon. They needed Ronaldo, three equalisers.

:25:37. > :25:55.Gignac, took a touch from Raphael Guerreiro. He has overstretched. The

:25:56. > :25:58.only two other teams to go into a final from third, Argentina, 1990,

:25:59. > :26:07.lost to West Germany in the World Cup, Italy, four years later, lost

:26:08. > :26:10.on penalties. I get that argument, but I would suggest in the group

:26:11. > :26:20.that they were not the third worst team. They had enough to win four

:26:21. > :26:25.matches. That is the point that Fernando Santos has made. He raised

:26:26. > :26:29.eyebrows yesterday when the defensive trait came out again and

:26:30. > :26:34.he said, well, we've had 36 shots on target, the same as France. Of

:26:35. > :26:39.course, some of France's have gone in. Stats, you can use, manipulate

:26:40. > :26:43.however you want as a coach or player. The simple fact is, you have

:26:44. > :26:46.to find a way to win. They have done that. Nobody gave them a chance

:26:47. > :26:53.against Croatia, they have found a way. More than any team at this

:26:54. > :27:00.tournament, they will not be beaten. They like defending, you can see

:27:01. > :27:13.that. They really do. Glamour faces are all French -- glum. They've got

:27:14. > :27:17.to get him back on the pitch, injured or not. Just needs to put

:27:18. > :27:28.one foot in front of the other. I think it is cramped, of some sought.

:27:29. > :27:39.The noise level has just risen, on Ronaldo's command. Gestures towards

:27:40. > :27:45.the Portugal funds. Free kick, Portugal again. Another chance to

:27:46. > :27:52.eat up a few more valuable seconds. Ronaldo was shouting, get on the

:27:53. > :27:59.pitch. He is bang on, stop messing around, get back on the air.

:28:00. > :28:09.Ronaldo, forcing Raphael Guerreiro back onto the field. Well, he has

:28:10. > :28:15.done his bit, without doing his bit. He knows that it's not all about

:28:16. > :28:20.him, he knows that winning this for his country, his team-mates, for

:28:21. > :28:23.himself, all of it. It means he will be remembered as one of the

:28:24. > :28:24.greatest. They always talk about international players winning

:28:25. > :28:42.trophies for their country. Koscielny. Quaresma has gone to

:28:43. > :28:55.left-back, because Guerriero can't run. I'm not sure about that.

:28:56. > :29:04.Ricardo Quaresma has burst down the field all of a sudden. And he has

:29:05. > :29:11.support from Joao Mario. Sagna just about keeps France in the game. Just

:29:12. > :29:17.about. They've actually been good in extra time, Portugal, the second

:29:18. > :29:26.period. The French haven't got enough energy.

:29:27. > :29:37.Joao Mario. He didn't want that. It did just go out. France throw. Last

:29:38. > :29:38.throw for them. 20 seconds, there might be one minute added on, that

:29:39. > :29:54.will be about all. If they win it, Ronaldo acknowledges

:29:55. > :30:00.the effort of his team-mates tonight.

:30:01. > :30:09.Two minutes. There is a groan from the Portuguese in the stands.

:30:10. > :30:23.He'll take his time getting back up again. He's done that well. Strong,

:30:24. > :30:26.keep hold of the ball. A nation that has played most games at the

:30:27. > :30:38.European Championship without winning it. That's about to change.

:30:39. > :30:44.I wonder how quickly Ronaldo will run on the pitch if they win it? His

:30:45. > :30:50.left knee is heavily strapped, covered in bandage. They are calling

:30:51. > :30:59.for full-time. Not yet. One more minute. Towering leap from Pepe.

:31:00. > :31:10.He's been immense. What a performance. Helped onto Coman. This

:31:11. > :31:21.could be the last chance for the host nation. Knocked down. Not!

:31:22. > :31:29.Offside. The flag is up. I think it's gone for France now. You can

:31:30. > :31:34.see it on the expression of Anthony Marshall. And the tired Laurent

:31:35. > :31:43.Koscielny. -- Martial. Gignac strayed. Ronaldo thinks they've won

:31:44. > :31:49.it. Rui Patricio will just get this is far downfield as he can. The hugs

:31:50. > :31:54.have started on the Portugal bench. Look how excited Cristiano Ronaldo

:31:55. > :32:00.is. All he's achieved, all the wealth he's accumulated. But he's

:32:01. > :32:06.never done this. Rui Patricio collect a token yellow card. He'll

:32:07. > :32:14.probably get the ref to sign it and give it to him later. He goes big.

:32:15. > :32:25.Eder jumps and he celebrates because he's the man who won the European

:32:26. > :32:31.Championship for Portugal! Their heartache as hosts 12 years ago is

:32:32. > :32:46.now being played out by France. Portugal do to them what Greece did

:32:47. > :32:51.in Lisbon in 2004. There are French tears, there are Portuguese tears,

:32:52. > :32:56.for very different reasons. There is no sunshine ending in Paris. Pepe

:32:57. > :33:03.has done so much, he can't keep it in. It has been a monumental effort

:33:04. > :33:07.by Cristiano Ronaldo's team. I'm sure many of them thought it had

:33:08. > :33:14.gone when he limped off. What an effort. I thought everybody did,

:33:15. > :33:19.including myself. So much credit to the players on the pitch, they

:33:20. > :33:23.defended with their lives, played with some quality on the break,

:33:24. > :33:28.waited for their opportunity. Fitness levels were fantastic. What

:33:29. > :33:37.a goal to win it. Superb. Credit to them. Portugal takes the prize.

:33:38. > :33:46.(STUDIO) Portugal are the European champions of 2016. Ronaldo's tiers

:33:47. > :33:51.of despair turned to tears of joy as he's hard by his team-mate and the

:33:52. > :33:57.winning goal-scorer. The Portuguese fans go mad. A lot of them in Paris,

:33:58. > :34:01.as we talked about before the game. But for the French, despair in front

:34:02. > :34:05.of their own supporters. That's never happened before in a major

:34:06. > :34:09.tournament. Didier Deschamps blows from possibly a hero to perhaps a

:34:10. > :34:20.villain in the eyes of the French people. Sam Thomas, 14 competitive

:34:21. > :34:23.games as the coach -- Santon. Not one single defeat. Allen, a

:34:24. > :34:29.tremendous performance considering they lost their star man early on.

:34:30. > :34:33.The way they stuck together, the way they responded to the bitter blow of

:34:34. > :34:38.Ronaldo going off has to be room mired -- admired. The way they

:34:39. > :34:46.defended and stuck together as a group. From that point of view, you

:34:47. > :34:50.cannot take anything away from them. The goal Eder scored, he was a

:34:51. > :34:55.threat when he scored, he held up the ball, brilliant piece of skill

:34:56. > :34:59.on the edge of the box, he held off Koscielny and what a finish it was.

:35:00. > :35:05.Down to the right of Lloris, he didn't have a chance. It's ironic

:35:06. > :35:10.that they've won one game in 90 minutes out of seven and they are

:35:11. > :35:16.champions. And Eder scoring the winning goal. 15 appearances for

:35:17. > :35:20.Swansea and he had never scored a competitive goal for Portugal before

:35:21. > :35:27.theirs. If you score one, you might as well make it important. Thierry

:35:28. > :35:32.Henry, commiseration aims, obviously disappointing for France and their

:35:33. > :35:35.football team. A sad day. I said before we have a lot of Portuguese

:35:36. > :35:40.in France and we are going to hear about it for a very long time. You

:35:41. > :35:44.have to give that team a lot of credit. First and foremost, well

:35:45. > :35:50.done to Portugal. I was saying before the game that you make sure

:35:51. > :35:54.and win it. But we have a team again. People might wonder why

:35:55. > :36:04.Martial didn't come on, why this and why that. When people were brave, we

:36:05. > :36:11.were number nine. Eder made a difference because he's a striker.

:36:12. > :36:17.He turned Koscielny inside out and scored. But listen, I said it

:36:18. > :36:23.before, I didn't want it to be the tournament of Nemesis and tournament

:36:24. > :36:29.first time you beat your nemesis. It turned out to be exactly that.

:36:30. > :36:34.Having said that, I repeat, you can only win the tournament if you have

:36:35. > :36:39.a good team. You can only win it as a team. Perfect example, Ronaldo

:36:40. > :36:44.comes out and they still win it. Maybe that gave them a lift. When

:36:45. > :36:54.you lose a big guy like that, you think let's do it for him, let's be

:36:55. > :36:58.resilient. Sometimes that gets teams together. When you go against ten

:36:59. > :37:03.men, it galvanises them and they have something to cling onto, they

:37:04. > :37:07.don't have to attack you. This Portuguese team, from the word go,

:37:08. > :37:12.they were comfortable, happy, to sit back and soak up pressure with the

:37:13. > :37:16.likes of Ronaldo and Nani on the counter to score goals. Going down

:37:17. > :37:21.to ten men, I didn't see that being a problem for them because they were

:37:22. > :37:27.sitting back anyway. You can see the hurt. I've been in finals, we'll

:37:28. > :37:37.have, where you've lost. The feelings you go through, IFS, buts,

:37:38. > :37:44.maybes. These guys... When you saw Ronaldo acting on the side of the

:37:45. > :37:49.field, we were saying... It's like a movie, the Ronaldo movie. He's the

:37:50. > :37:55.lead actor. He has the supporting role, director... He's in charge

:37:56. > :37:59.given when he's not player. Before the game, you say let's have no

:38:00. > :38:03.regrets. I think the France team will have because they didn't play

:38:04. > :38:08.well. I know they still had two or three good chances to win, but they

:38:09. > :38:14.didn't play well. We didn't see the energy, we didn't see the pace of

:38:15. > :38:17.passing from Payet, from Griezmann, from Pogba. There was definitely

:38:18. > :38:25.something missing tonight from that French team. Subdued. It seemed so

:38:26. > :38:33.one paced. There was no thrust in this team. We were talking about it

:38:34. > :38:40.off air. There was a weird rhythm in the second half and into extra time.

:38:41. > :38:45.It was only going to suit Portugal. It can only help them to win the

:38:46. > :38:49.game and it did. Ronaldo preening a little bit, getting ready for the

:38:50. > :38:55.presentation, that magical moment. He's put his shirt back on, which is

:38:56. > :38:59.something. You saw the Portuguese fans celebrating there. This is how

:39:00. > :39:06.the victory was received in Lisbon. This is the fan park there. It's

:39:07. > :39:09.their first tournament successful stop when you saw the name of

:39:10. > :39:15.Portugal being etched onto the trophy for the first time... A

:39:16. > :39:19.population of 10 million. Hugely competitive football nation, they

:39:20. > :39:22.get a semifinal after semifinal and that fella deserves to be thrown up

:39:23. > :39:29.in the air. What a performance from the coach. He had a successful time

:39:30. > :39:34.with Greece before the Portuguese appointed him. Very experienced.

:39:35. > :39:38.Cute, clever. You have to say well done because they've got a way of

:39:39. > :39:43.playing and what they say to the opposition is come and beat us,

:39:44. > :39:47.break us down. We're going to rely on a piece of brilliance or a set

:39:48. > :39:52.piece, that's the way they play. Teams haven't been able to do that

:39:53. > :39:57.with them. You have to say well done to the coach. If you go back to the

:39:58. > :40:01.qualifiers, they didn't start well. Bento went into an argument with

:40:02. > :40:06.Ricardo Carvalho and some of the older guys in the squad. The first

:40:07. > :40:11.thing that Fernando Santos did was bring them back. Especially Ricardo

:40:12. > :40:15.Carvalho. He said I need experience in the team and especially at the

:40:16. > :40:20.back. That's why he started with Ricardo Carvalho in the tournament.

:40:21. > :40:24.You can see what experience can do in a big tournament. That's down to

:40:25. > :40:29.him. He was getting criticised, I also said that the beginning after

:40:30. > :40:33.three draws in the group stage, maybe they don't deserve to go

:40:34. > :40:39.through. But with the new rules, you have to give them their respect.

:40:40. > :40:42.Well done to Fernando Santos and Portugal. Mark Clattenburg had a

:40:43. > :40:50.really good game, although he missed one handball. By and large she had a

:40:51. > :40:56.decent game. I think the officials right throughout the tournament have

:40:57. > :41:00.been excellent. Agreed. Mark Clattenburg got one decision wrong

:41:01. > :41:05.tonight, but other than that they've been brilliant. Looking back on

:41:06. > :41:09.Portugal, 20 years, they had the golden generation of rouleur Rui

:41:10. > :41:13.Costa, Luis Figo and more and they didn't get over the line. It goes

:41:14. > :41:21.back to the thing about a team. Better players as individuals that

:41:22. > :41:27.time, but this is a close-knit, well drilled team with a strategy they

:41:28. > :41:30.all buy into. That's a powerful thing to have. Nice sportsmanship,

:41:31. > :41:36.the Portuguese players giving the French players around of applause.

:41:37. > :41:40.It's always difficult to single out a player, or two or three, because

:41:41. > :41:44.they played well as a team, but I have to single out Raphael Guerreiro

:41:45. > :41:49.tonight. What a game he had. I don't know if it's because he born -- he

:41:50. > :41:54.was born in France and grew up in France and if he had something to

:41:55. > :42:01.prove today, but he played ever so well. You can name Pepe, Fonte,

:42:02. > :42:08.Carvalho... Patricio, the goalkeeper, as well. I think

:42:09. > :42:14.Guerreiro as man of the match. That is a lonely walk. A lot of stops

:42:15. > :42:19.anyway -- steps anyway, but when you're not picking up the trophy,

:42:20. > :42:23.that's the moralising. I feel for Griezmann because I was there in

:42:24. > :42:28.2006, the final of the Champions League and the final of the World

:42:29. > :42:33.Cup, back to back. It's the worst thing that can happen in the game.

:42:34. > :42:38.You almost say sometimes, if you have to choose, you want to lose in

:42:39. > :42:44.the semifinal. He looked shattered tonight, absolutely shattered. Have

:42:45. > :42:50.any of you got your run as a medals? I haven't. They got thrown away. I

:42:51. > :42:56.don't know where they are. Koscielny didn't even put it on. You don't

:42:57. > :43:00.want it, why would you put that on your mantelpiece? I know what it

:43:01. > :43:05.means to Pat, being in the changing room for eight or nine years with

:43:06. > :43:11.him. France was is everything. Disappointing at the World Cup... It

:43:12. > :43:16.makes it worse losing in front of your home supporters. The host

:43:17. > :43:22.nation, in a final. I'm not trying to find any excuses for that team,

:43:23. > :43:27.maybe they didn't play the final people were expecting, but I'll

:43:28. > :43:30.repeat, we have a team again. Let's not forget about what Didier

:43:31. > :43:35.Deschamps did and what that team has done. They didn't finish on a high

:43:36. > :43:41.note and make history, but with what we went through as a country in

:43:42. > :43:48.terms of events off the field and events back in the day on the field,

:43:49. > :43:56.well done. What about Didier Deschamps? His legacy, what will

:43:57. > :44:02.that be? I think they will keep him. He has done well. People why --

:44:03. > :44:05.people will question why this, why that, when you don't win, but I

:44:06. > :44:09.still think he's the man for the job and let's see if we can qualify for

:44:10. > :44:14.the World Cup. The Portuguese players are going up to receive

:44:15. > :44:18.their medals and of course the European Championship trophy. The

:44:19. > :44:20.self-proclaimed ugly ducklings have turned into swans. Guy Mowbray, all

:44:21. > :44:29.yours. There can rarely have been a more

:44:30. > :44:33.determined bunch of boys than these ones. Portuguese men of war, all of

:44:34. > :44:44.them. Masterminded by Fernando Santos. He has coached all of

:44:45. > :44:52.Portugal's tres grandes, Sporting Lisbon, Benfica, Porto. Varying

:44:53. > :44:58.degrees of success. That could have been one of the saddest sights of

:44:59. > :45:01.the tournament, but even Ronaldo's bandaged knee is a thing of

:45:02. > :45:07.celebration tonight. So shattered they can barely climb the steps. But

:45:08. > :45:10.I am sure there will be a burst of energy when they get to the top. It

:45:11. > :45:15.brings back so many memories, thinking about picking up a trophy.

:45:16. > :45:18.It is the ultimate in football. This is international level, for your

:45:19. > :45:26.country, something very few players have experienced. You can see in

:45:27. > :45:30.their faces, it's an amazing story for a team that are not fancied

:45:31. > :45:35.before the tournament, aren't fancied during it, even. You said

:45:36. > :45:39.the word, team. We were led to believe this was a squad that was

:45:40. > :45:49.all about one man. I think they have shown tonight that they possess

:45:50. > :45:56.character, quality, what Ronaldo does is give them the icing on the

:45:57. > :45:59.cake. People won't remember if he played in the finals, they will

:46:00. > :46:19.remember he was the captain of the team that won the first trophy. An

:46:20. > :46:25.unlikely hero, Eder. A winning goal, thumped past Hugo Lloris. Credit to

:46:26. > :46:32.most of the French supporters, to see that trophy, named after one of

:46:33. > :46:37.their own, a Secretary General of Uefa, his brainchild. Isn't it great

:46:38. > :46:41.to have a hero, rather than a villain? Somebody scoring a

:46:42. > :46:45.wonderful goal in extra time, to win a tournament like this, compared to

:46:46. > :46:50.somebody missing a penalty? Ronaldo not the leading man, this time. But

:46:51. > :46:54.he still gets up to receive the plaudits for the best supporting

:46:55. > :47:00.role. He played it to perfection, down on the touchline, as his

:47:01. > :47:08.team-mates did it for him and for Portugal out on the field. Perennial

:47:09. > :47:12.semifinalists. They always seem to make the last four, but only reached

:47:13. > :47:16.one final before and it all went sour on their own turf, just as it

:47:17. > :47:23.has done for France tonight. All of that is forgotten now. Every one of

:47:24. > :47:27.the squad, unlike the French, of course, only too happy to get those

:47:28. > :47:32.medals around their necks. Rui Patricio has been a rock in the

:47:33. > :47:42.Portugal goal, a goal so well protected by Fonte, Pepe and

:47:43. > :47:49.company. Resolute defence. With a goal or two in there at the other

:47:50. > :47:54.end. The trophy has a new name on it. First-time European champions.

:47:55. > :48:13.Kings of Europe. Portugal! There will be a party tonight in

:48:14. > :48:44.Portugal, not Paris. Portugal the winners, lifting the

:48:45. > :48:50.trophy. Huge emotion on the faces of those players. They deserve that.

:48:51. > :48:56.What a moment for them, what a moment for that country. Overall,

:48:57. > :49:01.such a durable team. Ultimately, they have come out as winners, Alan?

:49:02. > :49:04.That's what it's about. They set their system up, as I said, they

:49:05. > :49:08.said to everyone, this is how we are going to play, you know we're going

:49:09. > :49:12.to play this way, come and beat us, break us down. Not many kinks could

:49:13. > :49:14.do it. Not the best game of football we have ever seen, often the case in

:49:15. > :49:30.a final. A cracking goal to win it? Big, strong, skilful, held Koscielny

:49:31. > :49:36.off. Turns him, get off me! The best part is that, the finish is sublime.

:49:37. > :49:40.Lloris has no chance. And he is a top goalkeeper. He's the type of

:49:41. > :49:45.striker I didn't enjoy playing against. He wants contact, elbows

:49:46. > :49:49.and kneecaps everywhere. But he is somebody that is aggressive, he

:49:50. > :49:53.wants to get goals, because it can. Sometimes it looks scruffy and he

:49:54. > :49:57.doesn't make it come off, but he always wants to get the ball and

:49:58. > :50:02.take it and engage in a battle. U of what it means to these guys, tears

:50:03. > :50:11.of joy. Who was called upon, he came on, every ball. He had one

:50:12. > :50:15.opportunity to score. I don't even know who it was an opportunity to

:50:16. > :50:19.score. He pushed him away, what a finish. There was a moment in the

:50:20. > :50:24.game when you think it is not going to beat France's night. If there was

:50:25. > :50:28.one, it was probably Gignac when he hit the post? Give him a lot of

:50:29. > :50:38.credit, you don't see a lot of people doing that to Pepe. You

:50:39. > :50:43.know... He scuffed it, that is what you will see on the replay, that is

:50:44. > :50:58.what allows the ball to go over the leg. But we were talking about

:50:59. > :51:02.dinking the ball. But he's not Messi? It's not about doing it, it's

:51:03. > :51:06.about thinking about it at that moment. Griezmann, the Golden Boot,

:51:07. > :51:11.twice as many goals as everybody else. But did he have a couple of

:51:12. > :51:16.opportunities, headers, but it didn't happen for him? Not his

:51:17. > :51:20.night? It wasn't his night. Yes, you just mentioned that he has the

:51:21. > :51:23.Golden Boot, he has probably been the player of the tournament. But he

:51:24. > :51:29.will be thinking about these for the next few weeks. Especially that one?

:51:30. > :51:37.Yes, that is a big opportunity for him.

:51:38. > :51:43.There is confirmation of the Golden Boot winner, Griezmann, with six.

:51:44. > :51:50.Ronaldo, second, with three. More assists than the other players.

:51:51. > :51:57.Another thing, you know, I am really upset for Antoine Griezmann. I think

:51:58. > :52:01.if France had won, on a personal point of view, he would not have the

:52:02. > :52:07.Golden Boot. We now know where that ball is going to go.

:52:08. > :52:15.Four weeks of football, 108 goals and Portugal are the winners.

:52:16. > :52:26.After months of fearing what might happen at the Euros, at last, the

:52:27. > :52:34.football started. France, the hosts, kickers off. France were flying.

:52:35. > :52:41.Payet! What a wonderful goal! Some couldn't look, others didn't need

:52:42. > :52:47.to. Fans under the spotlight. For every sinner 1000 Saints. The green

:52:48. > :53:03.and white Army made friends everywhere. We will never tire of

:53:04. > :53:12.the man on Fire. Others were smouldering. The Welsh beast not

:53:13. > :53:19.beaten. Massive strops, flimsy strips, impressive dips. One nation

:53:20. > :53:23.proved that size isn't everything. Their thing became the thing. The

:53:24. > :53:35.volcano erupted. Some of the big boys were

:53:36. > :53:40.struggling. No one wanted to leave early.

:53:41. > :53:57.The Republic of Ireland have scored! The place is going mad. Some could

:53:58. > :54:01.not stop the slide. Trousers, wowsers, Ledley, Dudley. Some found

:54:02. > :54:09.it hard to sit down. Some watch the tournament pass them by. Some dug

:54:10. > :54:12.deep. Some, a little too deep. England faced another dentist's

:54:13. > :54:24.chair. The teeth pulling might take some time to heal. Spiky. Crikey.

:54:25. > :54:33.Blondie. One way or another. Not even the great Italian could hold

:54:34. > :54:37.the Germans. He has blazed it, after an exaggerated run of! The masters

:54:38. > :54:47.were frail, but they didn't falter. They were born this way. Enter the

:54:48. > :54:54.Dragon. Fearless, faultless. Always in the frame. He came, he soared, he

:54:55. > :55:04.conquered. The hosts also had a hero. Nobody could stop him. Not

:55:05. > :55:05.even the unstoppables. The hosts stayed for the final dance, but

:55:06. > :55:16.their guests were the last to leave. It has been quite a few weeks. You

:55:17. > :55:21.have voted for your goal of the tournament. You voted in large

:55:22. > :55:26.numbers. These are the top three you came up with. Robson-Kanu, against

:55:27. > :55:30.Belgium. Shaqiri, against Poland, Ronaldo against Hungary. It is up to

:55:31. > :55:37.you three to decide which one of those three is going to win. I'm

:55:38. > :55:44.going to go for Robson-Kanu. He told the Belgian defenders to get out of

:55:45. > :55:51.the stadium. Johan Cruyff, composure, but net. Robson-Kanu,

:55:52. > :55:59.control, composure. Well, this is irrelevant. Shaqiri. Just the

:56:00. > :56:06.technique? Cracking goal. Let's see the winner one more time.

:56:07. > :56:18.Good run from Aaron Ramsey. From Robson-Kanu. What a turn! What I

:56:19. > :56:21.goal! What a moment from Wales! Robson-Kanu with what might be the

:56:22. > :56:25.goal of his life. It was certainly one of the moments of the

:56:26. > :56:29.tournament. What do we make of the tournament? New format, more teams

:56:30. > :56:34.in it. Pretty negative, low goal-scoring ratio.

:56:35. > :56:39.Undoubtedly, the quality levels were disappointing. Teams coming not

:56:40. > :56:45.necessarily to win, just not get beat, not coming out and... Not

:56:46. > :56:49.making a better spectacle. On one hand, we can say the quality has

:56:50. > :56:54.been a step down, if not a couple of steps down. But then we have seen

:56:55. > :56:56.great scenes with fans who never thought they would go to a

:56:57. > :56:59.tournament like this and they have been able to have moments like

:57:00. > :57:04.Iceland against England, which was great. At the end of the day, you

:57:05. > :57:07.want to see quality players, the best players playing in the best

:57:08. > :57:13.teams. We didn't get as much about us we would have liked. Is the game

:57:14. > :57:19.a little bit negative at the moment, Thierry, is there too much fear?

:57:20. > :57:23.Safety first? Yes, if you allow the third to go through in the group

:57:24. > :57:29.stage, teams know if they win one game, they draw three, they can go

:57:30. > :57:32.through. Teams don't go forward. Uefa say they are happy with it and

:57:33. > :57:36.they think it is the way ahead, they might even bring in more teams? The

:57:37. > :57:41.team that finished third has just won the tournament. And happy to see

:57:42. > :57:44.teams doing well, Albania winning a game, Iceland doing what they did.

:57:45. > :57:52.But I think the new rule killed the group stage games. Personally. But

:57:53. > :57:57.for five or six games, the standard has been poor. As I said, at

:57:58. > :58:01.full-time, it has been pretty dull and boring a lot of the time. A lot

:58:02. > :58:06.of the excitement has come from the smaller teams, Wales, Iceland,

:58:07. > :58:10.Portugal were not fancied. Uefa have got what they wanted, financial

:58:11. > :58:18.reasons, it has been a success. But I think the quality has been poor.

:58:19. > :58:25.Your personal highlights? Rio? Wales. The journey they went on was

:58:26. > :58:30.fantastic. The unity they showed, the fans behind them, the

:58:31. > :58:35.unbelievable unity that they showed with each other. It's a great story.

:58:36. > :58:40.It is something that will live on for a long time and their fans will

:58:41. > :58:46.live through that for years to come. Thierry, as regards the host nation?

:58:47. > :58:55.Put on a great show? It's not so much on the field, it is about how

:58:56. > :59:00.the tournament went, colour, joy, happiness. That is what we wanted at

:59:01. > :59:05.the beginning. There was fear, and nothing happened. On the whole, it

:59:06. > :59:09.was a successful tournament. The fans, but for the incidents with

:59:10. > :59:13.England and Russian fans, other than that, they have had a fantastic

:59:14. > :59:19.time. They've enjoyed it. The Wales fans, the Irish fans, great scenes.

:59:20. > :59:23.Thank you all very much indeed. It has been an absolute pleasure being

:59:24. > :59:32.with you over these last few weeks. There it is. Portugal have won their

:59:33. > :00:16.first major tournament with a Eder from outside the box.

:00:17. > :00:53.Sturridge scores! # We could be heroes, just for one

:00:54. > :01:10.day... Gareth McAuley, for Northern Ireland! Cristiano Ronaldo!

:01:11. > :01:29.Gareth Bale, with another wicked delivery!

:01:30. > :01:54.England's embarrassment is Iceland's ecstasy.

:01:55. > :02:31.A great chance for Griezmann! A little bit of Marseille magic.

:02:32. > :02:45.Tonight is a time for heroes. Ronaldo. He gone, his game is done.

:02:46. > :02:50.A super strike! Here's the man that has won the European Championship.

:02:51. > :02:56.The kings of are Portugal. Thank you. Thanks very much.

:02:57. > :03:00.I've got to be at the top of my game, you know.

:03:01. > :03:05.Stay focused, keep my feet on the ground, just keep grafting.