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# Je revois la ville en fete et en delire | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
# Suffoquant sous le soleil et sous la joie | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
# Et j'entends dans la musique les cris, les rires | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
# Qui eclatent et rebondissent autour de moi | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
# Emportes par la foule qui nous traine | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
# Nous entraine # L'un contre l'autre | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
# Emportes par la foule qui nous traine | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
# Nous entraine # L'un contre l'autre | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
# Et perdue parmi ces gens qui me bousculent | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
# Quand soudain, je me retourne, il se recule, | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
# Et la foule vient me jeter entre ses bras... | :00:49. | :00:58. | |
It is the host nation against the world champions, France meet Germany | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
for the first time in the history of the European Championships, with a | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
place in the final against Portugal at stake. The French are chasing a | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
hat-trick of tournament wins on home soil, Germany are hoping to become | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
only the fourth team in history to hold the world and European crowns | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
at the same time. Good evening, we are really looking forward to this. | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
Alan Shearer, Rio Ferdinand and Terry Henry died after night. Let's | :01:28. | :01:34. | |
reflect on the events of last night, Wales's run is over, but they return | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
home as heroes. It has been an agonising long wait. | :01:43. | :01:53. | |
Gareth Bale Paul Wales, it is in! 58 years they have waited. | :01:54. | :02:09. | |
It is a win for St George and a defeat for the Dragon. Aaron Ramsey! | :02:10. | :02:24. | |
Gareth Bale with another wicked delivery. It is another Wales win. | :02:25. | :02:35. | |
What a turn, what a goal, something special is happening tonight. What a | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
performance from the team overall in the tournament as a country we have | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
added the tournament. Back home it has been incredible, it is the sort | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
of stuff you dream of is a little boy. Already further than any Wales | :02:50. | :03:00. | |
team that has gone before. It is a proud moment for us, we have | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
achieved a lot as a group, nobody expected us to, but we had the | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
belief, the pride and passion. Gareth Bale court Portugal out. We | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
are super proud of the players and the way they have come back, on | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
every level it has been first class. It is a serious shot on target. | :03:21. | :03:32. | |
Ronaldo has got it. When you give so much and you cannot give no more... | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
It looks as though Wales are sliding out. This is not the end of the | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
journey. I do not think it is, I think our players have got more | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
success in them. We have to make sure we go and get it. This is only | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
the end of one story. In years to come thousands will be able to | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
fondly say, I was there. A terrific effort and Wales left | :03:58. | :04:13. | |
this morning from their home base and they will travel home tomorrow | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
for an open top bus tour around Cardiff, which will end at the | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
Cardiff City Stadium where more than 30,000 fans are expected to attend, | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
with the celebration is being led by the Manic Street Preachers. It | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
should be quite a party. Alan, you were there, and they could not give | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
more. There was nothing in that game until that towering header, a piece | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
of brilliance from Ronaldo. It was pretty obvious that they missed the | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
quality of Aaron Ramsey in that team, he has been one of their star | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
performance in this tournament. But if you need any convincing to see | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
what a staggering achievement it has been for Wales, when Chris Coleman | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
was looking at his bench to try and change things, he looked at his | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
outfield players and there was one guy who played in the Premier League | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
last season, 11 minutes, Johnny Williams. Of all the credit that | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
they have had, they deserve it. They gave the tournament so much and they | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
have given their country so much. They have to be so proud of this | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
team, they are going to have an open top bus tour and they deserve it. I | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
know a lot of guys in that squad and every time I speak to them the word | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
brotherhood comes up and they were having the time of their lives. None | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
of them had experienced anything like this and to be a part of it and | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
to see it at close quarters, I have seen them crying, and that is what | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
it means for these guys and they will remember it for the rest of | :05:53. | :06:00. | |
their lives and rightly so. Is it just the British public who feel | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
this way? I think whether you are French or German or Belgian, you | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
have to respect what the team did. You have to ask, how did they manage | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
to do that? It is simple, when you have an identity and a plan and the | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
togetherness that they have, you can achieve a lot of things. The guy you | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
thought who would make a difference was Aaron Ramsey and also Gareth | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
Bale. When they lost against England people were thinking, be careful, | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
let's see how they will react, and they reacted well. They have a | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
togetherness and you have to give them a lot of credit. That was an | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
example for everyone to see what you can achieve when you play as a team. | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
Talking about the team, the work ethic and identity, when you have | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
got that to fall back on as an individual, you can go out and | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
express yourself. Without the creativity of a team, you cannot | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
express yourself. Despite all that it was an individual, a talented | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
individual, that was the difference. This is what he will be remembered | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
for. Up until then that was a ploy from Portugal, to keep on putting | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
balls into the box and they defended them pretty well up until this | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
moment. Yes, it is a brilliant header, the way he hangs in the air, | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
just watch this, how clever it is. He steps in front of Williams and he | :07:32. | :07:37. | |
has got a yard away from his marker. But to get himself in that position | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
and to hang like he did and to get the power and the accuracy, it was | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
stunning. That is the way he is, he jumps up, he hangs and he has the | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
strength and ability to put the ball where he wants to. He flies like a | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
hummingbird. It is brilliant. Despite that, the Welsh are still | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
enjoying themselves. We have got some interesting shots. I am not | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
quite sure why they are doing this. Look at the colour of them! They | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
have been working very hard. Maybe they had a beer. I cannot understand | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
why anyone would want to do anything on TV in their underpants. The | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
French brushed aside Iceland, but it is the Germans who have the | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
blueprint for success. The real clash of styles. Here is | :08:34. | :09:30. | |
how the two teams line up. Manuel Neuer has been beaten only once in | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
five matches. They revert to four at the back after playing three against | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
Italy. Liverpool's Emre Can makes his first appearance of the | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
tournament in the reshuffle midfield, alongside Schweinsteiger. | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
Cruise is expected to play slightly further forward. Draxler comes back | :09:52. | :10:01. | |
in Thomas Muller moves into the false number nine position and is | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
still without a goal in ten European Championship matches. France are | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
unchanged from the side that beat Iceland 2-0. N'Golo Kante is left | :10:12. | :10:23. | |
out. Sissoko is again included on the right side. Griezmann is top of | :10:24. | :10:29. | |
the standings in the race for the Golden Boot. Olivier Giroud has | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
three goals himself, just one behind Griezmann. This is the first night | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
these two teams have met the night of the terrible terrorist attacks. | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
As it meant so much to the nation since then? Is it important for | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
them? It is beyond that. We are not going to talk about what happened in | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
November, but not only in France, it has been happening around the world | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
and that is the main point, trying to bring that happiness to the | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
country through the tournament. But the other side is we have two again | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
popularity on the football side with the fans because of what happened in | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
2010. We will not go back to that. Now there is a togetherness and you | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
can sense it every single time. In November you had that relationship | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
with the fans and the fact that we have never beaten them in big | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
tournaments and that is important to night. There is one standout thing, | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
no place for N'Golo Kante. Since the beginning of the tournament Didier | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
Deschamps is not fazed about who he leaves on the bench. It is about the | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
team and the performance. They got a good performance against Iceland so | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
he does not want to change the team. Griezmann had to go on the bench, | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
Paul Pogba had to go on the bench, everyone almost, that is how it is. | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
If they win, they will all take the cup and celebrate, so it is a team | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
effort. The match is being played at the Stade Velodrome, and Chris | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
Waddle is pitch side. It is his old stomping ground, he is with Dan | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
Walker. Welcome to one of the great stadium | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
in the world with a man who was a bit of a hero in these parts. There | :12:26. | :12:33. | |
is a man called Claude who is looking for a photo of you. Many are | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
surprised that France are unchanged, but not you, why? I think Sissoko | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
did well and got good balance on the right-hand side. Giroud has got a | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
partner to link up with. They are playing a bit deeper and I think it | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
suits their game. We met a few German fans on the Metro, all of | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
them feeling their team will make the final, despite missing key | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
players. And Muller is in the number nine role. He might disappear from | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
that number nine spot and drift around a bit. I think Schweinsteiger | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
might play slightly right. He is not the fittest guy at the minute. Emre | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
Can coming in, he is a strong boy. They are always confident and they | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
look out for the ball. People say they are arrogant, but they are not, | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
they are confident. The noise here is incredible. To give you an | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
indication of how important this man is, we were not allowed pitch side | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
because the French president was in town, I mentioned the name Chris | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
Waddle and the door open! We all know football is a simple | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
game, 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes, or even 120. And at the end | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
the Germans always win. I am sure they have got as saying for that, | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
they always do. Only the hard come into the garden. A bit of afters. | :14:08. | :14:32. | |
The game has finished all tied, penalties coming. | :14:33. | :15:01. | |
And he has blazed it, the ball has not come down yet. Here is Muller, | :15:02. | :15:10. | |
and he is the first person to miss for Germany since 1982. | :15:11. | :15:29. | |
Germany are nearly there once more. Hector steps up. | :15:30. | :15:58. | |
The sausage obsession is quite something in Germany! Key area, you | :15:59. | :16:07. | |
have a slight concern about the fact they conceded chances against | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
Iceland, even though they were cruising. They started ever so well. | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
I don't remember a French team playing like that in one half, | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
especially in a big tournament, but they left too many chances for | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Iceland. Umtiti and Koscielny. Don by a flick against Iceland. So many | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
times they allowed the Iceland midfielders or defenders to run in | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
the box and just have a go on target, or off target. This one, if | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
it was in force Hugo Lloris, we would have been in trouble. I don't | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
know if Germany would have had that many players in the box, but it | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
doesn't matter. If you let them do that, you will have the same | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
problem. This is why I'm interested to see Umtiti, it's his debut. 4-2 | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
of the goals, he was at fault. It was his debut. Now he's playing in | :17:02. | :17:09. | |
the semifinals of the Euros and great confidence from the manager to | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
put him in. I was watching the game, 4-0, OK, we're going to make them | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
pay in the second half. We ran more than them and they won the | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
second-half 2-1. If you let that happen against Germany, be careful. | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
If you get four up against Germany, you'd take that! Any weaknesses in | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
the Germans they could possibly exploit? Yes. With crosses into the | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
box. I know they've only conceded one goal and that was a penalty, but | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
if it wasn't for poor finishing and some good goalkeeping, they have at | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
times struggled with crosses into the box. Picking meant up, deciding | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
who to go to, all is coming into the box. Good header, very, very good | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
save from the top goalkeeper and this is what they'll faced a night | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
with Giroud in the team. France won't be afraid to put balls in. | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
Centre of the pitch, demanding the cross. Another very good header. | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
They will be tested tonight and with that delivery from Payet, that could | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
be one of the ways they can exploit the German back four. Today both | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
teams weaknesses are there defences. They want to be on the front foot, | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
attacking with their best players. It bodes well for goals in this | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
game. We are due a game with loads of goals! Gomez's injury means | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
there's back at added pressure on Muller to break this strange duck in | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
this tournament. He hasn't scored in this tournament, but if you want | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
anyone to fill the boots of Gomez, this is the man. He scores goals. | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
Top goal-scorer in the last World Cup. What are like about him, he | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
said it in a press conference this week, goals aren't his fuel, winning | :19:04. | :19:09. | |
is. Every time you watching, even if he doesn't score, he brings | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
something to the game. He's a nuisance to play against. The ball | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
always seems to fall to him. In every game this tournament he's had | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
an opportunity to score and I'm backing him to score tonight. He | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
doesn't normally go this long without scoring. It's inexplicable | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
how this happens. We've all had teams we couldn't score against. | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
It's one of those things. If he keeps getting those sessions, one | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
will have to come. France, perhaps surprisingly, have the advantage in | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
the head-to-head record. They lead 12-9. But Germany have the edge in | :19:50. | :19:56. | |
tournament football. Remember the 1982 semifinal? More on that at | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
half-time. If France do progress, expected big performance from their | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
little prince, Antoine Griezmann, the leading scorer with four goals | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
and he's become the home nation's poster boy despite having never | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
played professionally in his home country. | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
The story of Antoine Griezmann is amazing. As a younger player he was | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
born not far from Lyon and he tried to go to every big French club and | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
everywhere he went it was always the same thing. You're too small, too | :20:29. | :20:30. | |
short, you won't make it. One day someone in Spain saw him and | :20:31. | :21:03. | |
thought maybe it would be better for him to come to Spain. He went to | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
Real Sociedad. He was crying the whole way. He was only 13, but he | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
knew it was the thing he had to do to make a career in football. He | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
says now he feels as much Spanish as French and you can't blame him. He's | :21:19. | :21:20. | |
lived more there than in France. Griezmann! He plays very much like a | :21:21. | :21:43. | |
Spanish player, which the French national team is benefiting from. To | :21:44. | :21:50. | |
me he's part of the best players the world. He's technically above many | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
players. He's skilful and in front of goal he's a killer. He's proving | :21:59. | :22:04. | |
to everyone you don't need to be strong or tall to realise your | :22:05. | :22:05. | |
dream. He's a family guy who worked hard to | :22:06. | :22:22. | |
make it. He will never forget where he came from. 2015 was a tough year | :22:23. | :22:28. | |
for him. His sister was in the terrorist attacks in Paris while he | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
was playing against Germany. She got really lucky and that's spurred him | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
on for this tournament. Quite a story. He is a delightful | :22:39. | :22:45. | |
footballer. I like him. I like him more in the number 10 role, in the | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
middle, playing where he has the space to run into. The early part of | :22:50. | :22:55. | |
the competition he played to the right-hand side. He's good in the | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
air. If you leave him space, like that, and in this game against the | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
Republic, he's enough and cute enough to find the space and put | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
headers away like that. Intelligent, linkup play, he knows the ball will | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
fall from Giroud and he is quicker than anyone else, he picks it up and | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
he's a very, very good player. That's where he was at the beginning | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
of the tournament, on the side, very difficult for Giroud to link up with | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
him because he wasn't close to him. Now he's where we can see him. He | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
knows already what is going to happen. If he wasn't there, Giroud | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
can only hold the ball and he's surrounded by three players. It's | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
too slow. But because Griezmann is clever and wants to run beyond | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
Giroud, Giroud wanted to flick it, the ball goes through, so with one | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
pass from Bognor Griezmann is one against one. -- one pass from Pogba. | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
When you've got someone who is prepared to run past you as a | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
forward, it doesn't half make your job easier. All of a sudden the | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
other centre-half has got something else to think about, and so do the | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
full-backs. Tricky for central defender. I used to look Giroud and | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
think he's not going to pose many problems, he's not going to run | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
behind. When you have somebody around him who will run behind, I | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
think I have to go back and Giroud gets space. Bringing him into the | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
ten role has enhanced two players. Having Griezmann around Giroud has | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
improved Giroud and he's looking like a top player. It's made them a | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
better team. What will be the deciding factor in this game? It | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
could be him. If he performs tonight like he has done for the vast | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
majority of this tournament, I think he'll be a key player. Listen, Pogba | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
has to play well, Payet has to play well, but our go to guide, our extra | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
guy, while Ronaldo is Griezmann. If he's on June, you know what can | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
happen. I agree. As said before the tournament Griezmann was the man who | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
could change fortunes for French football in a moment. He is living | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
up to that. Special times will come to the French team. Germany will | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
play as a team. Individually France can win it with individual moments. | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
Griezmann played over 60 games for Atletico Madrid. Boxed, defending, | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
sprinting, and he still performing at the end of the season. He's doing | :25:34. | :25:43. | |
it. Confident or nervous? Or both? I'm nervous because I want to win | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
it. I will go 1-0. The three players through the middle of the German | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
team, Hummels, could era and Gomez makes France the favourites. -- | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
Khedira. France, I said it before the tournament and I'm not changing. | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
I've sat here for many years and I've never had three people go | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
against Germany! Germany against France playing for a place in the | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
final of the European Championship. Your commentators, Martin Keown and | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
Steve Wilson. Thank you, Gary. Good evening, | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
everybody. Germany, on the right, face their hosts, France, on the | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
left. Their nemesis. This is a fixture so laden in footballing | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
history, so stuck in the groove of German victory when it really | :26:33. | :26:36. | |
matters, so fixed in the French psyche that they are calling it | :26:37. | :26:41. | |
their Everest. Two years ago at the World Cup quarterfinal in Rio, | :26:42. | :26:46. | |
Germany beat France. 20 years ago in the World Cup semi in Quad Le Hara, | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
West Germany beat France. 24 years ago tomorrow in Seville, another | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
World Cup semi and another West German win over France. But this is | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
not just France. Here it is the intensity and the majesty of | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
Marseille. Unmatched in any other Euro venue and in Marseille, La | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
Marseillaise. # Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit | :27:09. | :27:19. | |
Fur das deutsche Vaterland # Danach lasst uns alle streben | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
Bruderlich mit Herz und Hand # Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit | :27:22. | :27:27. | |
Sind des Gluckes Unterpfand # Bluh' im Glanze dieses Gluckes | :27:28. | :27:44. | |
Bluhe, deutsches Vaterland. # The Germans threw down the gauntlet | :27:45. | :28:21. | |
with their anthem. Special, yes. But stand-by for this. | :28:22. | :28:25. | |
# Allons enfants de la Patrie Le jour de gloire est arrive | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
# Contre nous de la tyrannie, L'etendard sanglant est leve | :28:31. | :28:38. | |
# Entendez-vous dans les campagnes Mugir ces feroces soldats | :28:39. | :28:50. | |
# Aux armes, citoyens Formez vos bataillons | :28:51. | :28:58. | |
# Qu'un sang impur Abreuve nos sillons | :28:59. | :29:08. | |
President Francois Hollande there amongst the crowd in Marseille. | :29:09. | :29:51. | |
Well, this is Germany's 20th semifinal in the last 26 major | :29:52. | :29:59. | |
tournaments. Stretching back to 1966. They are without Hummels | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
suspended, Kadir and Gomez injured. Income Emre Can, Draxler and | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
Howedes. Bastian Schweinsteiger is fit and places 38th game of World | :30:12. | :30:17. | |
Cup and European champions football. A record high for any player from | :30:18. | :30:25. | |
any country. The referee is Italian. Nicola Rizzoli, Europa League and | :30:26. | :30:31. | |
Champions League finals on his CV. He also took charge of Germany in | :30:32. | :30:36. | |
the World Cup final itself two years ago. Also France's win over the | :30:37. | :30:40. | |
Republic of Ireland 11 days ago. Germany's first taste of Marseille | :30:41. | :30:56. | |
in this tournament. France, the formation has been the topic that's | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
filled 1000 column inches in the build-up. 4-3-3 or 4-3-3 -- 4-3-3 or | :31:02. | :31:11. | |
not 4-3-3 was the question. But not, it's 4-2-3-1. No return for Kante, | :31:12. | :31:16. | |
Sissoko continues. Samuel Umtiti, with only his second cap, preferred | :31:17. | :31:21. | |
to Ramey, who was suspended for the quarterfinal against Iceland. | :31:22. | :31:30. | |
ritually in the last semifinal two years ago, Germany inflicted the | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
then host nation's heaviest ever defeat. That was Brazil, 7-1. | :31:37. | :31:45. | |
Franz's record of home defeat is 15- 02 and England amateur 11. I suspect | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
that is not under threat! What a stage and an atmosphere. It is an | :31:51. | :32:02. | |
amazing atmosphere. Lots of free flowing football, let's hope that is | :32:03. | :32:09. | |
what we are in for. Germany are in the white and black, France are in | :32:10. | :32:15. | |
bloom. This is for the right to go and face the Portuguese in the | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
final. Griezmann trying to make a nuisance of himself. | :32:20. | :32:38. | |
Emre Can had an early touch and a good run. | :32:39. | :32:52. | |
Muller just lost his bearings. Racks are coming in for the injured Gomes. | :32:53. | :32:59. | |
That is a feature of his game, he likes to run with the ball. | :33:00. | :33:14. | |
Hector did not keep it in play, it is a French throne. Throne. | :33:15. | :33:47. | |
Great ability. Just a little shimmy and straight into the box. That was | :33:48. | :33:58. | |
the back of his arm, but it was not deliberate. Just look out for a pie | :33:59. | :34:09. | |
at's delivery. It is special, the way he delivers this ball. | :34:10. | :34:27. | |
Olivier Giroud was hoping that would reach him. It did not. | :34:28. | :34:51. | |
Emre Can looked very nervous before this game. Schweinsteiger is playing | :34:52. | :35:03. | |
a more central role. He will be pulling the strings. Some nervy | :35:04. | :35:10. | |
moments early on here. A word about Schweinsteiger, 38 matches. Here he | :35:11. | :35:22. | |
is on the bond now will stop in Championships and world finals. | :35:23. | :35:35. | |
What great experience to have alongside you. | :35:36. | :35:47. | |
Germany felt that was a foul, the referee did not. | :35:48. | :36:11. | |
The French have started well, there is a real freedom in their play. | :36:12. | :36:16. | |
There is an incredible atmosphere here. They will play without any | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
fear. Cue Mitch with the foul. It is already very evident that | :36:21. | :36:56. | |
Griezmann is coming into those little pockets and linking very | :36:57. | :37:02. | |
successfully. It has been a powerful start for the French. They want to | :37:03. | :37:15. | |
use that momentum from the crowd. Didier Deschamps was a tiny giant as | :37:16. | :37:24. | |
a player, having lifted both the World Cup and the European | :37:25. | :37:25. | |
Championships as a player. They called Didier Deschamps the | :37:26. | :38:02. | |
water carrier. Kofi carrier more alike. Griezmann got to the | :38:03. | :38:07. | |
follow-up himself! Antoine Griezmann carved them open. | :38:08. | :38:25. | |
Great work down the left. He tried to place it. It takes a very agile | :38:26. | :38:36. | |
keeper to make that one. Germany here are facing the full force of | :38:37. | :38:45. | |
their own possession. He should have gone for a bit more power in his | :38:46. | :38:54. | |
shot. This is not a stadium, it is a cauldron, and it is bubbling over at | :38:55. | :38:57. | |
the moment, it is absolutely deafening. Germany are happy to take | :38:58. | :39:03. | |
the sting out of it and keep the ball for a little bit. | :39:04. | :39:22. | |
That was a valiant effort. Griezmann could not get the power on it, | :39:23. | :39:33. | |
although it had the direction. He is that extra little bit of spice | :39:34. | :39:50. | |
in the team, the glue almost, that makes everything come together for | :39:51. | :39:51. | |
France. Interesting that France are not | :39:52. | :40:43. | |
pressing the ball, just stay in contact. Muller was lurking inside | :40:44. | :40:52. | |
the box, hoping that Boateng might look for him. | :40:53. | :41:11. | |
That was too high. He will keep getting down that right-hand side. | :41:12. | :41:20. | |
They were two difficult balls to deal with. | :41:21. | :41:43. | |
Popper was caught. Drax low with the foul. He was coming in all the way | :41:44. | :41:54. | |
from the left-hand touchline. There is a definite plan to win the ball | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
back quickly from Germany. The first ten minutes have been quick and | :42:01. | :42:07. | |
competitive. Everything you could ask for. | :42:08. | :42:15. | |
What an introduction to international football for Umtiti. A | :42:16. | :42:19. | |
quarterfinal and a semifinal. There were three white shirts in the | :42:20. | :42:51. | |
box, Patrice Evra was in the way. Germany look a little more settled | :42:52. | :43:12. | |
now after that sort of noise and pace from France in the first few | :43:13. | :43:17. | |
minutes of the game. They are OK with these short passes, as soon as | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
they tried to play it a bit longer the ball goes astray a little bit. | :43:23. | :44:10. | |
They are using all of their experience here. It is mostly be | :44:11. | :44:17. | |
experienced players. I have not seen Emre Can touch the ball much. That | :44:18. | :44:26. | |
was Muller. Still not quite happening for Thomas Muller in this | :44:27. | :44:30. | |
tournament. A good ball into the box. He did not seem to plant his | :44:31. | :44:38. | |
foot alongside the ball. He lost his confidence in front of goal. Five | :44:39. | :44:45. | |
goals in the 2010 World Cup final and five more in the 2014 World Cup | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
finals, but he has yet to break his duck in European Championship | :44:52. | :45:02. | |
football. It is funny that. Miroslav close escort bags of goals in | :45:03. | :45:06. | |
European Championships. It is one of those things. | :45:07. | :45:29. | |
Germany owning the ball at the moment. Emre Can, a good save by | :45:30. | :45:38. | |
Hugo Lloris. The danger has not gone yet. | :45:39. | :45:50. | |
Koscielny and Bacary Sagna between them kept it out. They are riding | :45:51. | :45:57. | |
their luck. Germany had six players in that attack. Umtiti, just a | :45:58. | :46:06. | |
little bit of panic about that overhead. | :46:07. | :46:13. | |
Draxler pressing the ball high as well. A good effort into the corner, | :46:14. | :46:21. | |
Lloris swiftly across the goal, he reads it well. | :46:22. | :46:29. | |
Both goalkeepers are cats like, so quick. Exceptional. | :46:30. | :46:55. | |
Meat and drink for due:. Three passes before it came to Muller. -- | :46:56. | :47:06. | |
meat and drink for Hugo Lloris. So accurate with some of their passes. | :47:07. | :47:08. | |
Kroos is very good on the ball. France seemed to take the game in | :47:09. | :47:26. | |
their grasp in the opening minutes, but it's slipped through their | :47:27. | :47:35. | |
fingers in the last few moments. Germany look confident and bright | :47:36. | :47:36. | |
and comfortable. Kimmich pushed to the ground by | :47:37. | :48:20. | |
Dmitri Payet. He stayed on his feet this time. Payet got past him | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
earlier in the game, but not this time. Interesting how Boateng is | :48:25. | :48:32. | |
playing these diagonal balls right out to the Wing-back or full-back | :48:33. | :48:39. | |
tonight in Hector. He really plays high. He's seen loads of the ball, | :48:40. | :48:46. | |
Jonas Hector, on the left-hand side. France getting overrun in that | :48:47. | :49:17. | |
midfield. Ozil has so much space when he comes off to receive the | :49:18. | :49:18. | |
ball. Good play by Muller. The pass from | :49:19. | :49:34. | |
Draxler was a little bit wasteful behind Emre Can. | :49:35. | :49:41. | |
We know how good Low is as a tactician. Tactically they are out | :49:42. | :49:51. | |
playing the French at the moment. They look great in possession, but | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
I'm worried about the French out of possession. | :49:56. | :50:07. | |
Schweinsteiger in that quarterback role. | :50:08. | :50:56. | |
France have hardly smelt the ball in the last five minutes. A change of | :50:57. | :51:08. | |
pace from Kroos and put behind for the corner. Punishing for the | :51:09. | :51:16. | |
French. Hector on the left-hand side goes wide, Draxler comes into the | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
middle and they outnumber the French in central positions. | :51:21. | :51:25. | |
Headed out by Laurent Koscielny. Two white shirts went for the same ball, | :51:26. | :51:49. | |
Kimmich and Boateng. Lovely first touch from Griezmann. Now France can | :51:50. | :51:58. | |
break. Sissoko couldn't find Griezmann, well covered by | :51:59. | :52:01. | |
Schweinsteiger. He read the danger and snuffed it out. | :52:02. | :52:17. | |
Lovely from Kroos, is he threw? He's gone down and he is appealing long | :52:18. | :52:24. | |
and hard. The Italian referee doesn't want to know. This is a | :52:25. | :52:31. | |
change of pace from Kroos. I think the referee got that right. But if | :52:32. | :52:36. | |
it was a foul, it was just outside. Pogba might just have caught his | :52:37. | :52:41. | |
feel very close to the edge of the penalty area. Interesting to see | :52:42. | :52:45. | |
whether that was on the line or not. The referee had a good view of it. | :52:46. | :52:52. | |
Payet having to show a bit of invention. France need the ball. | :52:53. | :53:02. | |
First and foremost. Germany don't appear to be in the mood to share. | :53:03. | :53:22. | |
Real danger... Blocked by Umtiti. The French are getting worked again, | :53:23. | :53:33. | |
Ozil again in space. France are being unpicked here. Beautiful from | :53:34. | :53:47. | |
Kroos. Sissoko just, Evra away. Now they might break. Good tackle by | :53:48. | :53:53. | |
Schweinsteiger. At the moment, Martin, France just | :53:54. | :54:15. | |
about clinging on. They are, and you just can't take your eyes off it. | :54:16. | :54:19. | |
Tactically, I'd like to see Griezmann go a bit deeper into the | :54:20. | :54:22. | |
midfield when they are out of possession. The full-backs for | :54:23. | :54:28. | |
Germany really do cause problems because they are prepared to push | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
on. The ball, at last, for the home side. | :54:34. | :54:45. | |
Howedes with a rather wayward clearance. Did Schweinsteiger | :54:46. | :54:59. | |
catching? Yes, he did. -- catch him. Payet moving into a central position | :55:00. | :55:03. | |
and he gets caught. This is Payet territory. If he beats Manuel Neuer | :55:04. | :55:12. | |
from 30 yards, he deserves all the credit he'll get! It's going to have | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
to be some free kick to do so, but he is arguably their best at this in | :55:18. | :55:19. | |
a generation. As the German wall lines up, the | :55:20. | :55:48. | |
French discussions go on. Paul Pogba and Antoine Griezmann are standing | :55:49. | :55:55. | |
over the ball, but I can't help feeling they are just red Sox | :55:56. | :55:58. | |
herrings and this is going to be Dmitri Payet. | :55:59. | :56:10. | |
Keeper just keeps his eye on it nicely and makes it look easy after | :56:11. | :56:33. | |
all that drama. Just a little hand signal from lawyer, maybe to his | :56:34. | :56:37. | |
wall, that he couldn't see it. -- Nia. | :56:38. | :56:59. | |
He's looked at home, Emre Can. Clever, isn't it, the backheel. | :57:00. | :57:07. | |
Catches out Matuidi and has to give the corner away. | :57:08. | :57:24. | |
Driven in by Kroos. Headed down by Emre Can. | :57:25. | :57:39. | |
France being tested and stretched all over the pitch. Ozil! It hit | :57:40. | :57:59. | |
Umtiti. I'm not sure it was going in, but neither was Lloris. Such | :58:00. | :58:04. | |
variation to the German play here. Simple for the keeper. | :58:05. | :58:20. | |
I think Lloris is right to attack. They've got to get after the German | :58:21. | :58:49. | |
team and push back the full-backs. Matuidi finding the pitch gave way | :58:50. | :58:53. | |
underneath him a bit as he tried to change direction. | :58:54. | :59:20. | |
Beautifully flighted from Ozil. Strange from Payet. Kroos onto it. | :59:21. | :59:35. | |
Koscielny to safety, but only for a moment. Very simple what Germany are | :59:36. | :59:39. | |
doing. They're full-backs push on and the wide players come inside. | :59:40. | :59:44. | |
Just two fit -- midfield players for the French and they are being | :59:45. | :59:54. | |
outnumbered. Only 27 minutes played, but there may already be a case for | :59:55. | :00:00. | |
N'Golo Kante. It saps your confidence when you can't get hold | :00:01. | :00:04. | |
of the ball and when you do you give it straightaway again. | :00:05. | :00:34. | |
Looking for some individual magic, France, on the counterattack. That's | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
what ten minutes without the ball can do to you. Yeah. Griezmann does | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
really well to begin with, but just a simple pass. | :00:47. | :01:07. | |
The thing Germany do so well is to close you down once they give the | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
ball away. They win it back very quickly. They are smothering the | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
French team. The last 25 minutes have been an | :01:16. | :01:46. | |
exhibition of power from the Germans. Only lacking the goal. It | :01:47. | :01:52. | |
is all those little triangular passes and they are moving around | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
one another beautifully. The pocket was well and truly picked | :01:55. | :02:18. | |
by Schweinsteiger. Look how deep all France's danger | :02:19. | :02:44. | |
men are. They have been pulled deep. They are having to work so hard | :02:45. | :03:07. | |
because they keep playing diagonal balls, varying their play. So many | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
options on the ball. France have to find some way of | :03:12. | :03:28. | |
shaking Germany out of their stride. There was real danger. Umtiti was | :03:29. | :03:54. | |
there. Umtiti was important. Had to concentrate too clear that one. | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
Pushing up to 70% possession at the moment, Germany. | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
That was the clearance from the young man. Very important. | :04:10. | :04:29. | |
Umtiti's debut in the quarterfinal was a baptism of eyes and this is a | :04:30. | :04:39. | |
baptism of fire. I am looking at the French team and wondering where the | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
true leaders are. They really could do with some help from the | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
touchline. But when it is 0-0, you always have | :04:46. | :04:58. | |
a chance. Foul by Umtiti. The French team have | :04:59. | :05:16. | |
to push higher. They have given so much possession away it is just a | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
matter of time before Germany score one. | :05:20. | :05:34. | |
The German fans recreating the Icelandic clap. | :05:35. | :06:04. | |
Good goalkeeping by Hugo Lloris. That was better, the French team | :06:05. | :06:15. | |
were a bit more compact. The distance between the lines is really | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
important, how close that midfield is from the back line. On Sunday | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
their Wimbledon men's final from one o'clock on BBC One, hopefully with | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
Andy Murray involved in that, and then the final of Euro 2016 from | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
seven o'clock. BBC is the only place you can watch both, the climax of | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
the Wimbledon men's singles and the climax of Euro 2016. Popper did | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
well. He was put under a great deal of pressure. He tried to play his | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
way out nice and calm. He gets the free kick. | :06:55. | :07:14. | |
Griezmann concedes the free kick. You do not want to give Payet to | :07:15. | :07:24. | |
many looks at your goal from this range. Yellow card for Emre Can. He | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
is not happy with that one, but he shuts the door on Griezmann. Look at | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
Muller. He wants him to be calm. He does not want to see him sent off. | :07:42. | :07:58. | |
Are they going to try and do something a little more unexpected | :07:59. | :08:19. | |
here or will Payet have another go? Griezmann is leaving the scene, | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
Payet is leaving the scene. Paul Pogba is on it. | :08:26. | :08:47. | |
It was Paul Pogba. Same side, same result. A different player this | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
time, but very similar. Emre Can was making the point that | :08:54. | :09:09. | |
he felt that Griezmann was falling into him. This is where they get | :09:10. | :09:17. | |
killed a little bit, in the build-up, Schweinsteiger coming in | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
deep and building from the back. The French team are happy to let them | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
have it. Now they will try and break. But | :09:24. | :10:03. | |
shirts are back quickly. They get back exceptionally quickly. That is | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
what you want in transition, you want your defence to get back | :10:08. | :10:08. | |
quickly. That was straight to Mullen. Again | :10:09. | :10:25. | |
Muller's shot was not really troublesome for Hugo Lloris. | :10:26. | :10:36. | |
France seemed to enter this game with such belief and they now look | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
riddled with self-doubt. You could see it breaking just there. | :10:44. | :11:16. | |
All that came from Matuidi's mistake. Can the French survived | :11:17. | :11:45. | |
until half-time? Schweinsteiger is claiming he was being held and the | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
officials have decided he was not. Paul Pogba was the man nearest him. | :11:51. | :11:56. | |
The referee just about get that right. Paul Pogba was on the wrong | :11:57. | :12:06. | |
side. He is hugging Draxler. I am not sure he found Schweinsteiger. I | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
wonder if the French are thinking about changes at half-time to stay | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
in this game. You changed the system, Didier Deschamps at | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
half-time when they were a goal down against Northern Ireland. It has | :12:22. | :12:29. | |
suited them well in this tournament up to this point, maybe it is time | :12:30. | :12:30. | |
to change back. Patrice Evra into Griezmann. It is | :12:31. | :13:04. | |
great play down the left-hand side. Griezmann takes it really early and | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
it is into the side netting. He chips it up to volley at. They have | :13:10. | :13:19. | |
got quality and they have got matchwinners. They have also got | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
N'Golo Kante sitting on the bench. They could do with his energy in | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
midfield. But if 90% of your focus and energy is being spent just | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
keeping the opposition out, then you have got a problem. | :13:37. | :13:55. | |
He is celebrating like he has scored a goal. That is what it means when | :13:56. | :14:02. | |
you make a great tackle, outstanding defending. Not quick enough to | :14:03. | :14:15. | |
accelerate away from her bread, and not aware enough to pick out | :14:16. | :14:16. | |
Griezmann. That I would suggest is a yellow | :14:17. | :14:39. | |
card for Patrice Evra. Just look at that, that was brilliant play from | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Germany, the way they've played out of trouble. Also composed in | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
possession. It was a good foul as well to stop them breaking, by the | :14:51. | :14:52. | |
way. Patrice Evra played in 2008 and the | :14:53. | :15:11. | |
2012 European Championships and the 2010 World Cup before he actually | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
won a game with France in a tournament. | :15:16. | :15:27. | |
That was a really important header from Koscielny. | :15:28. | :15:37. | |
Here they come again, stretching, teasing, twisting... And falling | :15:38. | :15:47. | |
over. And with punishing runs. This was Olivier Giroud. Look at that for | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
defending. He has come from nowhere to make that challenge. That is | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
brilliant. They might have had very little of | :16:01. | :16:14. | |
the ball, France, and been second best by a distance, but they have | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
had opportunities. That is why it is so captivating. | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
Griezmann with the best of them early on, you would say. The two | :16:27. | :16:35. | |
from Griezmann and that one from Giroud. Payet, nicely done. It was | :16:36. | :16:48. | |
turning awkwardly for Hector, who took no chances. Evra elected to get | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
forward, we haven't seen much from him in the first half. Moving into a | :16:55. | :17:03. | |
minimum of two added minutes at the end of this first half. If France | :17:04. | :17:12. | |
get this right, they may go in the tunnel in front. | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
A clash of heads... The referee... What's he given? Has he given France | :17:20. | :17:36. | |
a penalty? He's given France a penalty! | :17:37. | :17:45. | |
Bastian Schweinsteiger is in the referee's notebook and France have a | :17:46. | :17:58. | |
penalty. For that. His arm is up and he's headed it onto his arm. There's | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
no doubt. That's harsh. It is harsh and surely the referee can't see | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
from there, he's behind it. Well, the Germans are distraught. Antoine | :18:13. | :18:21. | |
Griezmann has the chance to fire France in front in Marseille. | :18:22. | :18:31. | |
This could be his fifth of the tournament. It could be France in | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
front. He's facing Neuer. He scores! Incredible. France lead. The stat | :18:35. | :19:04. | |
velodrome celebrates and Germany wonder how they are going in behind. | :19:05. | :19:12. | |
Griezmann can't believe it himself. This is the handball. The referee, | :19:13. | :19:19. | |
did he really say that? How cool was he when he put that one away? The | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
man who missed from the spot in the Champions League final, remember, | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
has tucked this one away. At half-time in Marseille, the hosts | :19:31. | :19:42. | |
lead the world champions. (STUDIO) just behind us, they've | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
been going absolutely bonkers. The noise nearly shattered the glass! | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
We'll show you how that went down in a while. Overall it looks like | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
Germany were very dominant and comfortable in possession, but | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
France have the lead. You can listen to stats and possession, but the | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
stat that matters is goals. Germany have had a lot of possession, but | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
they haven't put the chances they had away. France have had one or two | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
opportunities on the break, which they didn't punish them for with | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
Giroud and his lack of pace... The amount of pressure they've put on | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
the back 11, not just the back four, because France have been pushed so | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
far back. They have to get ten yards further up the pitch. It's not like | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
Germany are blessed with great pace in the forward line. They have to | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
get ten year is further up the pitch. Dare I suggest you been a tad | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
fortunate in the first half? Well, more than fortunate. We were | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
watching the game and it's what we said before the game. I was | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
expecting Germany to dominate and they did. Like Alan said, we're 1-0 | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
up, we've been a couple of times in their box, Griezmann had a great | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
opportunity at the beginning of the game. It looks like we would have a | :21:00. | :21:03. | |
go and then we sat back more and more. We weren't able to counter, we | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
had two corners. I think it's a penalty. It's twice now Germany have | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
put themselves in a situation where they've had the game in their hands | :21:16. | :21:20. | |
and now they are behind. That's the problem with Germany, they've always | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
lacked discipline! Boateng in the last game and now Schweinsteiger. | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
The experiences got, you'd expect in to deal with it much better. But at | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
the end of the day, these chances they had... Do you two seriously | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
think it's ability? You can't go up with your hand like that. The law is | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
deliberate handball. He's not going to get there. I think he's gone to | :21:46. | :21:53. | |
protect his face from the elbow of Patrice It's a great penalty, great | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
composure. You have to give Griezmann great credit because he | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
missed against Real Madrid in the Champions League final. Look at | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
that. I don't think it's a penalty, it's a very, very harsh decision. | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
Straightaway we shouted, was it handball? Then he gave it. If | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
someone lost me in the box at set piece, panic straightaway and you | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
think, let me do something to put him off. He's put up his arm to put | :22:25. | :22:30. | |
him off. I think it's definitely a penalty. You'll have to agree to | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
disagree. We highlighted Griezmann before kick-off as the danger. There | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
was a wonderful bit of football earlier in the game by France. You | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
can see here with Sissoko looking confident and moving forward. France | :22:44. | :22:50. | |
got the ball back. They were playing in their half, trying to be brave. | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
Pass forward, flick, and again. Griezmann again. Matuidi gives him | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
the ball back. Now if he was on his left foot I think it would have been | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
a goal. He could have passed to Sissoko, but you'd rather he have a | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
go. He just didn't find the corner. If it goes in, it's the goal of the | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
tournament. It didn't have enough bend on it. At the beginning of the | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
clip, that was France in the first five or ten minutes, on the front | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
foot, higher up the pitch, having the composure and believed to go up | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
against Germany. They've sat back since. That lasted only three | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
minutes. Five almost. Bags of possession for Germany. A couple of | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
chances. Let's look at those. Two decent chances. We were sat here | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
talking and thinking that Germany are finding a way through the middle | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
of that team too much. They are sitting deep and they are not | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
smelling the danger enough, particularly Pogba. Yes, he might be | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
a very good player when he's getting the ball forward... That's a good | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
chance for Muller. Defensively, Pogba has to smell danger a little | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
bit more. I know he's not a naturally sitting midfielder to | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
protect in front of the back four, but straight through the middle of | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
the team. That is too easy. You have to smell the danger better. It's a | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
brilliance save from Lloris in the end. That's the difference. It's a | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
great save from Lloris. That's the difference with Kante in the team, | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
someone who can smell danger and plays off the other midfielder. | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
Kante will never be in the same line as the other midfielder, he'll be | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
smelling the danger with the ball behind. I wouldn't be overly | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
surprised to see him appear, especially now given the lead from | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
South. I think he will definitely come on. He's been missing in | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
midfield. And Mario Gomez has been missing. They don't close the ball | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
to early. It becomes at times, although they pass the ball well and | :25:00. | :25:02. | |
they bully you in terms of how they push you back, but if you don't have | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
the man in the box, it becomes more easy. France have had a penalty, | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
should Germany have had one? Maybe a foul on Kroos? I think it was a | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
freak look after Pogba caught him. Fantastic play from Kroos, the way | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
he changes the pace. Maybe Pogba should be covering. That's where | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
Kante would be. The way in which Kroos just ups the levels. It's just | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
outside. I think it's a free kick. It's a free kick. Schweinsteiger has | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
controlled this game. He's been great. He didn't play last year for | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
Man United. You talked about the way the German full-backs play so high, | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
they forced the French team back. That is what's happening. Because | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
both Hector and Kimmich in the first half... They are virtually playing | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
as out and out wingers because of the pressure that Germany are | :26:07. | :26:09. | |
putting on them, which in turn is forcing Sissoko back, but not so | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
much Payet, because Everett is covering. Look how wide both | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
full-backs are. At the minute they are stretching France and they | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
couldn't cope with it. If they were better in the final third with their | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
last ball,... It's proving difficult for France to cope. You have to give | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
credit to Germany for the way they've played. Surely if a team | :26:40. | :26:46. | |
plays that high with their full-backs, there's an opportunity | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
to counter attack if you know what you're doing. It's not that easy. | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
They force you to go behind. Although it doesn't look like they | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
are running, they are running a lot, covering space. The French team at | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
the moment is a bit unbalanced because Evra is matching Kimmich, | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
Sissoko is following Hector. You have Payet tucking in, but on the | :27:07. | :27:10. | |
other side he's following. They need to be a bit more brave, let Sagna | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
deal with Hector on the side and make sure Sissoko and help Matuidi | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
and Pogba inside. The German full-backs ask you the question. The | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
wide players, Payet and Sissoko, they say to them, do you want to | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
come with me not? If you don't, I'm in. It's whether you go up and say | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
we are going to cheat and hit you on the counterattack, or if you defend. | :27:38. | :27:41. | |
If you're going to counterattack, it's good to have some pace up | :27:42. | :27:48. | |
front. If Jerry is playing, this is a goal. -- tee area Omri. It's the | :27:49. | :27:58. | |
ability to get your head up and have a look at Griezmann inside. He is | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
not quick enough anyway to get past him. A lame effort in the box. Look | :28:04. | :28:09. | |
to his right, he never looks once. You need to have great composure, | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
cut back and let Howedes go and tackle away and then you finish it | :28:15. | :28:18. | |
easy. But it's not that easy. I stood up and I thought it was going | :28:19. | :28:25. | |
to be a goal. OK. As we mentioned earlier, this is in the first time | :28:26. | :28:28. | |
these sides have met in the semifinal of a major tournament. | :28:29. | :28:34. | |
That came in the 1982 World Cup. A fairly tepid affair. Just six goals, | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
a penalty shoot out and one of the worst fouls of all time. | :28:39. | :28:59. | |
It must be... Got it through the crowd to give West Germany the lead. | :29:00. | :29:07. | |
Harald Schumacher to face Michel Platini. 1-1! Battiston is obviously | :29:08. | :29:16. | |
going to come on and the referee allowing him to do so. Platini, | :29:17. | :29:25. | |
great ball. Battiston... Wide. Schumacher came out and thumped in | :29:26. | :29:31. | |
pretty hard, I must say. Battiston retires on a stretcher. The referee | :29:32. | :29:41. | |
blows the full-time. There will now be an extra period of 30 minutes. A | :29:42. | :29:53. | |
lot of movement in the area. Tresor! Giresse. Yes! What a cracking goal. | :29:54. | :30:01. | |
The French believe they've made it to the final. Rummenigge! He's made | :30:02. | :30:19. | |
its 3-2. 3-3! For the first time, a World Cup has a match to be decided | :30:20. | :30:27. | |
in a penalty competition. It will now be a question of sudden death. | :30:28. | :30:37. | |
West Germany have won! How cruel. The French can only look in | :30:38. | :30:46. | |
disbelief. And apparently without complaint in a match which will be | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
remembered for many and many a day. Quite a game. A reminder that our | :30:53. | :30:59. | |
coverage of the final begins at 7pm on Sunday. You can pick your team of | :31:00. | :31:06. | |
the tournament at the BBC sport website. | :31:07. | :31:17. | |
Let's return to Marseille and join Dan Walker. | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
Welcome once again to the side of the pitch. We have heard from the | :31:24. | :31:29. | |
pundits, let's hear from the press. You are a well-known European | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
football expert. Nobody in the studio knew that the penalty had | :31:35. | :31:39. | |
been given, but the French fans celebrated. They started well, they | :31:40. | :31:43. | |
finished well, but in between it was complete German dominance. I think | :31:44. | :31:50. | |
Germany were a bit nervous and they took time to settle, but once they | :31:51. | :31:55. | |
got their passing game going and their position, France were on the | :31:56. | :31:58. | |
back foot and they were very deep. We felt Germany slowly but surely | :31:59. | :32:03. | |
were going to eke out some taxes, but they were only half chances. The | :32:04. | :32:10. | |
German side had a different tactical line-up against Italy and they have | :32:11. | :32:15. | |
a different tactical line-up the night as well. Most of the half has | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
worked well, do you think they will come out in the second half and | :32:20. | :32:24. | |
think they can play France of the pitch again? Now France can play | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
even more on the counterattack. Germany have to be careful, they | :32:29. | :32:32. | |
have got extra men in the middle to deal with the direct play, but at | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
the same time any options up front. Mullah looks a bit isolated and | :32:39. | :32:42. | |
Mesut Ozil is floating about and they have not been able to get | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
behind this French team. The noise down here at pitch level, with the | :32:47. | :32:51. | |
Marseille as before the game, it makes a difference. When we arrived | :32:52. | :32:57. | |
earlier, the first guy on securities said, in Paris we want France to | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
win, and in my say they have to win. At the moment they are 1-0 up. | :33:04. | :33:09. | |
France faced their nemesis. For this. | :33:10. | :33:17. | |
Griezmann. A good save by Manuel Neuer. Emre Can. A good save by | :33:18. | :33:26. | |
lorries. Great ball in, real danger. The keeper was there. He has given | :33:27. | :33:32. | |
France a penalty! It could be France in front. He scores! | :33:33. | :33:38. | |
The last time Germany won again after being 1-0 down at half-time it | :33:39. | :33:46. | |
was Germany against France. I am not doing that deliberately to make you | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
even more nervous. What do they have to do in the second half to maintain | :33:51. | :33:55. | |
that advantage? They have to make sure they run on the counter, they | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
cannot sit and defend. I do not know if we are able to defend for 45 | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
minutes. You also need to make them work. France have got to get ten | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
yards further up the pitch and when they win the ball back, at least | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
they can get into that German back four a bit quicker than they are at | :34:16. | :34:19. | |
the moment. They have to stop the Germans taking chances and sit and | :34:20. | :34:25. | |
defend resolutely, that the threat on the counterattack. In the last 15 | :34:26. | :34:29. | |
minutes they looked like they were a threat to score. It does not look | :34:30. | :34:32. | |
like there have been any changes. No changes from I don't manager, but | :34:33. | :34:44. | |
Mesut Ozil was booked in the melee that followed the award of the | :34:45. | :34:48. | |
penalty for kicking the ball away. So he, Wye and Bastian | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
Schweinsteiger are all on yellow cards for Germany. The French are 45 | :34:54. | :35:02. | |
minutes away from the final of Euro 2016. They won the final in this | :35:03. | :35:10. | |
stadium in another classic semifinal against the Portuguese, but there is | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
a lot of work to do before they can see off Germany. | :35:15. | :35:52. | |
Good defending by Boateng. Again Olivier Giroud delaying the defender | :35:53. | :36:09. | |
with a chance to get back. It was a good chance. Yes, it was a good | :36:10. | :36:11. | |
chance. It is a corner kick. Look how fired | :36:12. | :36:30. | |
up Griezmann is. That came off the defender. | :36:31. | :36:38. | |
Starting the second half like they started the first. The sheer desire | :36:39. | :36:47. | |
and noise can carry a team to a final. 60,000 French fans in | :36:48. | :36:48. | |
Marseille will do so. But France might well need a second | :36:49. | :37:00. | |
goal. France are asking the questions at | :37:01. | :37:14. | |
the start of the second half. That is better, good pressure from the | :37:15. | :37:19. | |
French. Mesut Ozil was forced to put that one out of play. | :37:20. | :37:26. | |
It would be very interesting to know what he said to his side at | :37:27. | :37:33. | |
half-time. I do not think there would have been a lot of panic. | :37:34. | :37:54. | |
There was a tussle involving Umtiti and Thomas Muller. Muller is going | :37:55. | :38:04. | |
to the referee to have a little word. Listening to the atmosphere | :38:05. | :38:10. | |
there is an incredible unity with the players here and the French | :38:11. | :38:11. | |
public. Almost a lovely ball, well defended, | :38:12. | :38:32. | |
Umtiti had to get something on that. Umtiti is demonstrating why he is in | :38:33. | :38:36. | |
this team, he gets the all-important clearance. | :38:37. | :39:12. | |
There is that ball again, Boateng, brilliantly delivered. | :39:13. | :39:26. | |
That was a good battle, one by Sissoko. That is great play from | :39:27. | :39:36. | |
Moussa Sissoko. Draxler gets a yellow card. Sissoko being asked to | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
play almost as a right back. A definite booking, he has gone with | :39:41. | :39:54. | |
two feet. It was a scissor challenge. | :39:55. | :40:01. | |
The game has gone very scrappy and it is suiting the French. | :40:02. | :41:08. | |
There were three in the middle. Umtiti again, he just keeps his eye | :41:09. | :41:19. | |
on the ball, good positioning. This time it is a German verb. There was | :41:20. | :41:27. | |
a great town from Mesut Ozil. You have got to stay patient if you are | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
going to defend so deep. It was a terrific turn from Mesut Ozil. | :41:34. | :41:48. | |
Germany is looking for a corner. A goal kick is given. There was no way | :41:49. | :41:56. | |
past their, Patrice Evra was really strong. Just prising him out of the | :41:57. | :41:59. | |
way. So, Antoine Griezmann's penalty kick | :42:00. | :42:18. | |
in stoppage time in the first half is the difference between the two | :42:19. | :42:24. | |
sides, as the Germans continued to press and probe and test the French | :42:25. | :42:26. | |
backline. A blanket of blue between Germany | :42:27. | :42:59. | |
and their aim, which is the goal of Hugo Lloris. | :43:00. | :43:35. | |
No foul. I think the German actually acknowledged as much as he got up. | :43:36. | :43:47. | |
It looked like a dive. There was a handshake between MA can and the | :43:48. | :43:54. | |
referee just out of your picture there. I think he acknowledged it | :43:55. | :43:56. | |
was not a foul, it was a stumble. Winners generally find their way and | :43:57. | :44:27. | |
Germany are used to winning. That was a great ball and, Umtiti is | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
coming into his own in this second half. Koscielny keeps coming out and | :44:33. | :44:40. | |
breaking the line, stayed there together, do not leave holes for the | :44:41. | :44:46. | |
German team to run into. Germany were semifinalists four years ago | :44:47. | :44:51. | |
with Italy. The flag is up, it will be a French | :44:52. | :45:00. | |
free kick. A good decision. Just about offside. | :45:01. | :45:12. | |
The linesman did well. I am struggling to remember ever | :45:13. | :45:40. | |
having been in a more partisan atmosphere than this. It is | :45:41. | :45:45. | |
remarkable, isn't it? It cost a lot of money, this roof, I | :45:46. | :46:05. | |
hope it survives the night. There is no letup from Germany as well, they | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
keep coming in droves with laser-like passes. | :46:10. | :46:17. | |
He Mitch appreciated the intention. He is losing his patience. | :46:18. | :46:29. | |
Just too much on it. Hector, again, the full-back, pushing right on. | :46:30. | :47:11. | |
It's like Munch's scream from Joachim Loew. He's got a look on its | :47:12. | :47:19. | |
face that says it's not going to be his night. -- his face. | :47:20. | :48:00. | |
Great leap for a little one. I thought he was in. Great recovery | :48:01. | :48:20. | |
from the defender. Boateng is down for Germany, he has a problem. That | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
would be a cause of concern for Germany, not least because they are | :48:25. | :48:28. | |
already without Mats Hummels through suspension. | :48:29. | :48:35. | |
Well, I think that might be the end of the road for him, that signal. It | :48:36. | :48:45. | |
certainly looks that way. Signalling for the stretcher. Is it the | :48:46. | :48:46. | |
hamstring? That's huge. Yeah. Ping went the | :48:47. | :49:02. | |
ball and his hamstring might have done the same. | :49:03. | :49:13. | |
Shkodran Mustafi will come on, who played in Germany's first match in | :49:14. | :49:23. | |
this tournament, the 2-0 victory over Ukraine, when he scored. He | :49:24. | :49:27. | |
hasn't featured since. He's going to feature now. Not sure | :49:28. | :49:42. | |
he will have had long to warm up. It's not ideal for him. Whilst | :49:43. | :49:49. | |
Boateng gets treatment off the pitch, Mustafi is waiting to come on | :49:50. | :49:57. | |
and Germany are momentarily down to ten. Griezmann... Germany free kick. | :49:58. | :50:16. | |
Still not got Mustafi on. They are delaying this free kick I think in | :50:17. | :50:23. | |
order to make the change. Boateng is clearly not going to be coming back. | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
If Germany do go through, I would doubt very much whether he would be | :50:29. | :50:33. | |
involved in Paris on Sunday. A very sad end for him. Shkodran Mustafi, | :50:34. | :50:41. | |
who actually came through Everton's youth system at one time. He comes | :50:42. | :50:43. | |
on. Half an hour for Germany to find a | :50:44. | :50:53. | |
way back into this semifinal. Ahead on points, behind on goals. | :50:54. | :51:10. | |
Yes. They haven't really had any momentum in the second half. | :51:11. | :51:15. | |
Stoppages. The French team started the second half well. Offside. It's | :51:16. | :51:28. | |
a good line, though. The French defence knows what it's doing. | :51:29. | :51:35. | |
If you're together as a back four, even good players will run offside. | :51:36. | :51:47. | |
Despair. A picture of despair. Looks like a boxer who's been counted out. | :51:48. | :51:56. | |
Towel over his head. The fans -- France have got a corner. | :51:57. | :52:14. | |
A new defensive partnership here, Mustafi and Howedes. | :52:15. | :52:24. | |
Griezmann's corner. Koscielny! Neuer new. He's got to be heading that | :52:25. | :52:36. | |
back across the goal. Antoine Griezmann is now on five | :52:37. | :52:51. | |
goals in these finals. No player other than Michel Platini has ever | :52:52. | :52:55. | |
scored more than five in a European Championship finals. Platini scored | :52:56. | :53:02. | |
an astonishing nine in 1984. Good ball. But there was a player at the | :53:03. | :53:09. | |
far post just waiting for that to be played on the diagonal. Kroos | :53:10. | :53:15. | |
wriggling through dangerously. A good block from Koscielny. | :53:16. | :53:22. | |
Germany looking for the momentum which has eluded them a bit in this | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
second half. Anxiety is beginning to replace | :53:27. | :53:43. | |
certainty. On those fans faces. A lot of shaking of the head. They've | :53:44. | :53:48. | |
got to remain patient and keep testing the France team, but France | :53:49. | :53:49. | |
are quite comfortable at the moment. Hyatt has gone down. -- Payet. | :53:50. | :54:27. | |
Whether the referee has instructed Germany to stop play... They've | :54:28. | :54:30. | |
rather charitably done so if he didn't. Extremely sporting. He gets | :54:31. | :54:34. | |
one right in the kippah! Gotze is going to be on soon. | :54:35. | :55:19. | |
Joachim Loew has seen enough of the second half and he hasn't liked what | :55:20. | :55:27. | |
he's seen. Being a midfield player Hill probably sacrifice. -- he will. | :55:28. | :55:39. | |
Can't get Gotze on quickly enough. Emre Can makes way. He's done OK. | :55:40. | :55:49. | |
But Gotze is potentially a matchwinner. | :55:50. | :55:59. | |
He's come on and had a quick word with Ozil. I think he's going to go | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
up and play alongside Muller. Matuidi continuing his run, Sissoko | :56:05. | :56:33. | |
looking for Payet. Well dealt with by Kimmich. Dimitri Payet... When he | :56:34. | :56:47. | |
wanted a rip-roaring good contact, instead it was a dribbler. | :56:48. | :57:08. | |
Suddenly Ozil is playing very, very central. That's a good ball. Space | :57:09. | :57:22. | |
for Kimmich. Draxler! Everybody claiming this. Umtiti claiming | :57:23. | :57:27. | |
goalkick, but a corner kick has been given to Germany. Well, TG here | :57:28. | :57:31. | |
keeps his eye on the ball and gets across to make the clearance. -- | :57:32. | :57:43. | |
Umtiti. The referee isn't happy, he's blown his whistle. A few shouts | :57:44. | :57:50. | |
from the German crowd, who couldn't hear the whistle, understandably. | :57:51. | :57:55. | |
They wanted a penalty. Giroud came and punched it knowing the whistle | :57:56. | :57:56. | |
had gone. The whistle goes again. And it's a | :57:57. | :58:10. | |
French free kick. I think it's Muller who catches | :58:11. | :58:22. | |
Koscielny. Just pushes him over. Koscielny certainly made it look | :58:23. | :58:38. | |
that way. Free kick. Against Sissoko. Starting | :58:39. | :59:22. | |
to get very stretched again in that midfield for France. | :59:23. | :59:37. | |
France edging ever nearer. It would be another final on home style. | :59:38. | :59:49. | |
Winner of the European Championship on home style -- home soil in 19 84. | :59:50. | :59:56. | |
Winner of the World Cup on home soil in 1998. 20 minutes. Offside anyway. | :59:57. | :00:12. | |
Mustafi offside and France will bring on N'Golo Kante now. | :00:13. | :00:23. | |
You'd never know that was his boy, would you!? | :00:24. | :00:50. | |
Kante coming on, this season he's at, it's almost like bringing on two | :00:51. | :00:59. | |
players. As good a player as Payet is, he won't defend like Kante can. | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
Pogba... He stayed on his feet when he might not have done. Great chance | :01:10. | :01:25. | |
for Griezmann! That may very well do it. | :01:26. | :01:34. | |
A little bit of Marseille magic. A German error, first by Kimmich, | :01:35. | :01:49. | |
Neuer couldn't clear, and Antoine Griezmann has six in this tournament | :01:50. | :01:59. | |
and two tonight. He's a goal machine, isn't he? Look at Pogba | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
here, the quality he has. Skip Spar is the defender, great bit of skill, | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
imagination. -- skips past. Griezmann stabs it in with his left | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
foot. It's a quality finish to improvise that way. | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
France 2-0 Germany. It's what top strikers do, they just sniff a | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
chance. Danger here. Germany need a goal and | :02:34. | :03:11. | |
they need it now. Lloris... Unbelievable. It's a quality finish, | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
look at that. That's the full-back, by the way, on his wrong-foot. Yes. | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
He has the presence of mind as well to bend that. He gets done on this | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
one, though. A bit of trickery, head up, picks out the pass off his left | :03:31. | :03:32. | |
foot. The second goal started on the | :03:33. | :03:47. | |
Kimmich mistake, he almost made amends straightaway. Unbelievable | :03:48. | :03:57. | |
confidence in the young man. That would have been a goal and a half | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
from Paul Pogba. Draxler fell. It is a yellow card. | :04:00. | :04:39. | |
Is it N'Golo Kante or Griezmann? N'Golo Kante. He just ripped in | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
County Court him. -- and he caught him. 15 minutes to | :04:42. | :05:07. | |
play. This free kick is going to be the French wall and the wall of | :05:08. | :05:08. | |
sound. Draxler hit it! What an F for that | :05:09. | :05:31. | |
is, from where we work it looks like it was in. Just wide of the post. | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
Set it out too far. -- effort. Draxler cannot beat Bacary Sagna, it | :05:36. | :06:13. | |
is a goal kick. He got caught on the follow-through, but great defending | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
again. Look how strong he is. Resolute. Cannot beat the French | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
resistance. Olivier Giroud is going. You can see | :06:21. | :06:47. | |
the applause that he is getting, what they think of him. Offer not | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
appreciated in the English Premier League. He is certainly appreciated | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
here. Gignac is coming on. Germany are | :06:55. | :07:17. | |
going to make a change as well. Leroy Sane is going to be on. A very | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
interesting prospect on his international debut. He will be on | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
shortly, but it is asking a lot with 13 minutes to go and two goals down. | :07:32. | :07:44. | |
Crews claiming a foul and getting a foul. I wonder if Draxler is coming | :07:45. | :07:56. | |
off. Schweinsteiger. Well, they are going for it. They haven't got a | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
choice. Leroy Sane is on. Cruise with the | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
free kick. He has been on the pitch for about a | :08:10. | :08:30. | |
second and he nearly scored. I think some of the Germans thought that was | :08:31. | :08:43. | |
a goal kick. Composure required. Mustafi snatched at it. | :08:44. | :08:55. | |
Sissoko has done well. Relegated with Newcastle this season. He has | :08:56. | :09:25. | |
not taken that into this competition. All the first-half | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
momentum really was with Germany. Now there appears to be an | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
inexorable tide carrying France to the final. The crowd have been like | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
the 12th man here tonight, it is an incredible noise. | :09:46. | :10:05. | |
The second Griezmann goal is only the first in open play which Germany | :10:06. | :10:14. | |
have conceded in this tournament. With ten minutes to go it has all | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
but knocked him out. Even Mesut Ozil is making the wrong decisions on the | :10:21. | :10:21. | |
ball. Kimmich and Gignac. The decision | :10:22. | :10:52. | |
goes against the Frenchman. Kurtzer gets a free. Germany only | :10:53. | :11:16. | |
know one way to play, they just keep going for it. It is not going to | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
happen. That was a fantastic ball end, great | :11:21. | :11:37. | |
movement, it was a powerful header. But he could not get it down. | :11:38. | :12:10. | |
Germany will keep playing, they will keep going, they will keep trying to | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
find a foothold in this semifinal. But at the moment it looks like a | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
force of nature and France are going to keep them out. Without the | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
goal-scorer or a recognised one, we thought Thomas Muller would score | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
the goals, they thought he was the solution. | :12:34. | :12:49. | |
Kimmich and able to pick out Draxler. | :12:50. | :13:07. | |
Sissoko was not quite able to get on the end of it. The final from Paris | :13:08. | :13:16. | |
on Sunday, live on BBC One at seven o'clock, is preceded at one o'clock, | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
also on BBC One by the Wimbledon men's final. It is going to be a | :13:23. | :13:34. | |
long day in front of the television, isn't it? It sure is. | :13:35. | :14:06. | |
Good centre halves cover each other's backs. They have been | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
outstanding tonight. Sissoko has put in a tremendous | :14:11. | :14:31. | |
shift. There were a few eyebrows when he kept his place, but he has | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
done exceptionally well tonight. Could he win it? Didier Deschamps? | :14:35. | :14:59. | |
He won this as a player, he won this as their captain, he won this on a | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
Golden Goal. He won the World Cup as well. | :15:07. | :15:28. | |
Griezmann would have been on a hat-trick. I do not know if there is | :15:29. | :15:38. | |
time for him to live to regret it. We saw all of his quality there. | :15:39. | :15:53. | |
Gignac tried to draw a foul out of Mustafi, but did not manage it. That | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
was a great tackle. Game management now. I think they | :16:00. | :16:23. | |
have done that magnificently well throughout the match. They were | :16:24. | :16:24. | |
hanging on for long periods. It's the hour for Oles. France are | :16:25. | :16:36. | |
almost in the final. He's done well since he's come on, | :16:37. | :17:21. | |
Gignac, very similar to Giroud. Holds it up for his team. Griezmann | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
is the man, though, in that team, the way he holds onto the ball, | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
silky skills. Germany have run out of ideas. And | :17:32. | :17:56. | |
they've almost run out of time. I think the French have broken their | :17:57. | :18:11. | |
hearts. No foul on Griezmann. The 90th minute of the semifinal. | :18:12. | :18:46. | |
And there's nothing Germany can do. It's just been impossible to find a | :18:47. | :19:12. | |
way through this French defence. Seconds remain and then the party. | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
France are heading to Paris. Their own final. A final on French soil. | :19:21. | :19:30. | |
Looking to repeat the Triumph of 1984, the joy of 1980 -- 1998. | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
France are unbeaten in their last ten games against Portugal since a | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
friendly in 1975. They will be red-hot favourites. As soon as the | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
Italian blows his whistle. Tired limbs, Martin. Big source did, | :19:47. | :20:10. | |
tired French limbs. Yohan Cabaye is going to come on. Pogba, who's been | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
exceptional, I think is going to have to be persuaded to make way. | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
Lovely little interception, maybe he gets cramped at the same time. It's | :20:23. | :20:29. | |
Griezmann coming off. Now just listen to this for innovation. -- | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
for an overlay should. -- over Asian. | :20:39. | :20:47. | |
Antoine Griezmann, the man for France tonight. No words are needed. | :20:48. | :21:03. | |
The crowd said it all. That's what it means to them. | :21:04. | :21:13. | |
Their Euros is going to end in semifinal defeat against. | :21:14. | :21:34. | |
Another header from Laurent Koscielny. | :21:35. | :21:47. | |
The game is up and they know it. The header... Brilliant save! Fantastic | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
save by Hugo Lloris. Towards the back post again and | :21:56. | :22:09. | |
across the goal and wide. They still cannot, through Gotze of this time, | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
find a way past Hugo Lloris. Look at the keeper's reaction. This is the | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
second one, just goes past. This is the header. What a save that is. | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
Brilliant, brilliant save. On a hot and humid Marseille night, | :22:26. | :23:07. | |
Didier Deschamps and his French team are marching towards the final. | :23:08. | :23:23. | |
All eyes now on Nicola Rizzoli, the referee. The next whistle will | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
surely be the last. Still Germany come. They appeal for | :23:32. | :23:41. | |
a penalty. The referee has looked at his watch. | :23:42. | :24:14. | |
Offside! Not the end. He's teasing them. You have to give Germany | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
credit, they kept going to the end. France are in the final! Germany are | :24:22. | :24:29. | |
out! The force is most certainly with them. Antoine Griezmann is the | :24:30. | :24:44. | |
man on the lips of the nation. Germany, despairing, defeated. | :24:45. | :24:45. | |
France March on. France 2-0 Germany. France against | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
Portugal on Sunday in the final. (STUDIO) France have done it. They | :24:55. | :25:05. | |
are through to the final. And they are the first host nation to reach | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
the European finals on two occasions. Also in 1984, of course. | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
What a fabulous achievement. To beat a side like Germany, although | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
Germany have lost four of their last six semifinal appearances now at a | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
major tournament. I must come to you to your area, congratulations. Thank | :25:26. | :25:35. | |
you. I'm so emotional at the moment. It's nice to see the togetherness of | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
the team, the fans. At the back they were brilliant. Evra, Sagna, Umtiti, | :25:42. | :25:48. | |
Koscielny. We can see Paul Bob Barr, everybody. Like I said before, the | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
main man, Griezmann. -- Paul Pogba. We all knew he had to play this type | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
of game. Everybody will say yes, Germany made two mistakes, but I | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
don't care, he put them in the back of the net. We have a hero. He can | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
make us win tournaments, hopefully. You never know what will happen in | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
the final, but we are there now. It will be tricky against Portugal. But | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
what a player. Monsieur Griezmann. Real contrast and emotions between | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
the sides, naturally. Very rare to see Germans with tears in their eyes | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
that are not ones of joy but rather despair. It was a good game of | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
football. It was a very good game of football. France did what they had | :26:39. | :26:42. | |
to do. When they were under severe pressure without the ball in the | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
first half, they stood firm. They came out a little bit further | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
forward in the second half, which helped them get that second goal, | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
which we'll look at in a second. They were the better team with the | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
star man up front, Griezmann. He delivered when he had to, but also a | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
special mention for the coach, Deschamps. Whatever decision he is | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
made at any time this tournament, it's worked. Whether that was | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
leaving out Griezmann in the second game, bringing Coman O'Donnell at | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
half-time, leaving out Kante today, which was a surprise. Every changes | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
made has worked perfect leaf. France thoroughly deserved to be in the | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
final. Fabulous scenes in Marseille, the French fans enjoying the night, | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
as well they might. The German players acknowledging their | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
supporters. I think we'll be seeing this a lot next season, the | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
Icelandics have given us so much in this tournament and that, I suspect, | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
we'll see at many grounds around the world. It's catching around the | :27:49. | :27:53. | |
world. It's a great celebration. It's great to see the change in the | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
French. I was in the changing room with Patrice Evra after the World | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
Cup when they had the problems, but this is a complete contrast. It | :28:03. | :28:08. | |
shows you that football can change if you create an identity and | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
culture they can all believe it, a structure and organisation, you can | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
change it and you need players like that, players that can play at the | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
top level and be consistent and make good decisions at the right times. | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
And scored goals. Brilliant scenes, French players enjoying it in front | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
of their supporters. We can confirm that France will play Portugal in | :28:30. | :28:37. | |
the final of Euro two to 16. -- Euro 2016. It could be a very special | :28:38. | :28:45. | |
Sunday indeed. He hasn't lost that this Championships yet. He's got the | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
ball on a string. He's picked his moment and found his spot. Getting | :28:52. | :28:59. | |
fired up, these two to. A searing shot. He is truly one of the | :29:00. | :29:06. | |
greatest players ever. That may very well do it. They thoroughly deserved | :29:07. | :29:13. | |
their place in the showpiece event. Epic is the word I believe they tend | :29:14. | :29:17. | |
to use nowadays. Antoine Griezmann has now scored as many goals at the | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
European Championships as Thierry Henry. He's joined you on that | :29:22. | :29:29. | |
number. I'm sure you won't mind! What he's doing at the moment, he is | :29:30. | :29:38. | |
astonishing. We could see Ronaldo and Griezmann and we were smiling. I | :29:39. | :29:45. | |
think I'll sit like this. What a player. The first was courtesy of | :29:46. | :29:52. | |
this penalty. Alan doesn't think it was. Difference of opinion. What | :29:53. | :29:57. | |
were his arms doing up there? Sticking with that, Alan? Yeah. It | :29:58. | :30:05. | |
has to be deliberate handball. Griezmann, calm as you like his | :30:06. | :30:09. | |
fifth of the tournament. And then he scored his sixth, twice as much as | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
any other individual in this tournament. This is what it meant to | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
him, and to the fans outside our studio. Spectacular scenes in Paris. | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
I said at half-time I felt France had to press a little bit higher and | :30:24. | :30:28. | |
get everyone ten yards up the pitch. This illustrates exactly that. Look | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
at the way they go after the ball. Look how many men they have forward, | :30:33. | :30:39. | |
committed to be attacked, not giving up, not sitting back, and it pays | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
off. It's a mistake by Neuer. He either has to stay or punch it. It's | :30:43. | :30:49. | |
such a clever finish by Griezmann. He realises he doesn't have time to | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
think about it and just with the studs, thanks very much. A clever | :30:55. | :31:00. | |
and cute finish. We were talking about experience, Schweinsteiger, | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
Manuel Neuer. Two big mistakes from two experienced players. But the | :31:07. | :31:11. | |
sign of a great team is to take advantage and you punish a team and | :31:12. | :31:17. | |
France did that. It was all most like old Italian or German sides. | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
Two opportunities, two goals. Professional performance, very | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
patient, sort it out. Yeah, and they had waves of attacks against them. | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
Umtiti made two mistakes in his first game, his debut, but today | :31:34. | :31:36. | |
showed he's a player who learns quickly. A few balls played across | :31:37. | :31:42. | |
and he was defending at the front post. He was as good as Koscielny | :31:43. | :31:48. | |
today. The final of the Champions League, Ronaldo against Griezmann. | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
Final of the European Championships, Ronaldo against Griezmann. Thanks, | :31:53. | :31:56. | |
we are out of time. Antoine Netz again, he's a French revelation. | :31:57. | :31:58. | |
Very good night. I've got to be at the top | :31:59. | :32:17. | |
of my game, you know. Stay focused, keep my feet | :32:18. | :33:13. | |
on the ground, just keep grafting. Yous ready? | :33:14. | :33:16. | |
ALL: Yeah! | :33:17. | :33:19. |