:00:53. > :00:57.The last of the quarter-finals to be played at Euro 2016 saw host nation
:00:58. > :01:03.France take on the team who ended England's hopes.
:01:04. > :01:09.10% of Iceland's population were estimated to be in Paris tonight.
:01:10. > :01:13.That's the equivalent to 6.6 million French fans turning up
:01:14. > :01:16.at the Stade de France. The winners of this game already
:01:17. > :01:19.knew they would face Germany in the final four on Thursday,
:01:20. > :01:23.the Germans having beaten Italy on penalties last night.
:01:24. > :01:28.Wales, of course, face Portugal in the other semi on Wednesday.
:01:29. > :01:31.Good evening. Chris Waddle and Kevin Kilbane
:01:32. > :01:34.are ready to unleash their inner Viking.
:01:35. > :01:35.But first, let's get to the action. Your commentators are Mark Lawrenson
:01:36. > :01:47.and Jonathan Pearce. COMMENTATOR: We want it to end like
:01:48. > :01:52.it did for Leicester City, say the fairy tale believers, Iceland. For
:01:53. > :01:57.the hosts, victory would mean a grand celebration, the pretournament
:01:58. > :02:07.target of a minimum of the semifinal achieved. Iceland, save the -- say
:02:08. > :02:12.the French, rapid and in the land of ice and Fire. Beyond the poetry it
:02:13. > :02:16.would be the greatest Icelandic sporting triumph ever. The French
:02:17. > :02:21.are very wary. The players have spoken of the pressure they felt
:02:22. > :02:26.against Romania. They started sluggishly, not scoring in the first
:02:27. > :02:38.half of any Euro 16 game. Iceland will work and work. Two changes,
:02:39. > :02:41.with Rami and Kante out. Umtiti becoming the first French outfield
:02:42. > :02:59.player in defence since the 60s. Payet and Griezmann, the men in
:03:00. > :03:04.form. Lloris is well aware of the danger. If we go out there telling
:03:05. > :03:09.ourselves we are the best and have more talent, we won't go through, he
:03:10. > :03:12.said yesterday. Iceland naming the same side for the fifth game
:03:13. > :03:18.running. Nine players on one yellow card. Space between defence and
:03:19. > :03:24.attack. Sigurdsson has been one of the best passers in the tournament.
:03:25. > :03:27.They will know that the last four teams to beat France in a
:03:28. > :03:31.quarterfinal have gone on to win that tournament. Can't happen,
:03:32. > :03:49.surely? Or can it? Sissoko, powerful in the game
:03:50. > :03:54.against Switzerland. He started. I think if you look at the power that
:03:55. > :04:01.Sissoko, Matuidi and Pogba in midfield, it's outstanding. Space
:04:02. > :04:11.for Evra on the left. He'll shoot! It nearly came back off Halldorsson.
:04:12. > :04:17.So much pressure on Didier Deschamps. He's made big, bold
:04:18. > :04:25.changes. In his selection and in his substitutions. They effort from
:04:26. > :04:33.Bjarnason. -- a decent effort. Iceland have started brightly. Got
:04:34. > :04:46.the shot away. Lars Lagerback and how Grimson -- how Grimson --
:04:47. > :04:51.Hallgrimsson. It was said that England should go on to beat Iceland
:04:52. > :04:59.on a bad day but they lacked the match winners like Griezmann and
:05:00. > :05:07.Payet. A reflective mood about that game all week. Here's Giroud! 1-0
:05:08. > :05:13.France. Too much space and he exploited it. 12 minutes gone and
:05:14. > :05:18.the hosts are ahead. The first time they've scored in the first half of
:05:19. > :05:24.these finals. There was so much space. My first thought was whether
:05:25. > :05:30.he was offside. He is on, no doubt about it. A pretty poor goal to
:05:31. > :05:37.concede. A great finish as well. Very difficult to stop.
:05:38. > :05:48.A really wretched night, I can't remember a summer tournament when a
:05:49. > :05:55.weather has been so poor. Towards Griezmann, that's a corner kick. It
:05:56. > :06:12.came off Arnason. First corner kick of the game.
:06:13. > :06:18.Umtiti is up from the back. There he is, six feet tall, the 22-year-old.
:06:19. > :06:30.Griezmann with the corner, it's in! And the long, long wait is over. His
:06:31. > :06:39.first since October, 2014, in French colours. They are 2-0 up. And the
:06:40. > :06:43.underdogs have it all to do now against the hosts. We said before
:06:44. > :06:48.the game, what kind of goals would Iceland concede, you wouldn't use
:06:49. > :06:53.the first or the second. Very simple, easy goals for France to
:06:54. > :07:02.score. -- you wouldn't choose. No one with him. Valiant effort to keep
:07:03. > :07:14.it out on the line. Great leap from Pogba. Way above Arnason for the
:07:15. > :07:21.second French goal. Umtiti, so important for Lyon. Conceding less
:07:22. > :07:25.than a goal a side when he was -- less than a goal a game when he was
:07:26. > :07:38.in the side but without him, conceding two a game. A long throw.
:07:39. > :07:46.Only four league starts for them. Miserable night for him tonight. The
:07:47. > :07:53.chance of a long throw. Sigthorsson, the knock on, and over. Brilliantly
:07:54. > :07:57.worked fro in. Everybody knows what's going to happen. Very
:07:58. > :08:07.difficult to stop it sometimes. Should have done better.
:08:08. > :08:16.Sigurdsson, a poor turn, gave it away.
:08:17. > :08:29.Sagna has four to hit in the middle, Giroud is the target. 3-0. The
:08:30. > :08:34.French are as good as in the semifinals. How simple was that
:08:35. > :08:43.goal? This time it was a well worked goal. Nice interchange of passing.
:08:44. > :08:49.Really well worked goal by France. Putting them 3-0 up, two minutes
:08:50. > :08:53.before the break. That's the key, the early ball from Sagna. A good
:08:54. > :08:59.jump from Giroud. Nice touch, Griezmann. Hitting across the goal,
:09:00. > :09:00.very difficult for the goalkeeper. Nearly always goes through
:09:01. > :09:09.somebody's legs. Lovely touch by Giroud, Griezmann is
:09:10. > :09:28.in here! He scores. France finding every possible form.
:09:29. > :09:35.They are 4-0 up against Iceland, who have simply been blown away. Two
:09:36. > :09:41.goals in two minutes. This is real quality, great ball in. Giroud does
:09:42. > :09:47.brilliantly. Of all the people for the chance to come to, you knew he
:09:48. > :09:54.wasn't going to miss. Two conceded straight through the back of their
:09:55. > :10:01.defence. France are as good as in the last four, as they lead by four.
:10:02. > :10:29.France are playing around Iceland. How many passes in this move?
:10:30. > :10:35.Well, what a goal that would have been. Possibly 20 touches, and one
:10:36. > :10:42.from Iceland, which topped the charts for Payet. -- set up the
:10:43. > :11:03.chance. Iceland throw. Gunnarsson will throw it to the near
:11:04. > :11:23.post. Some calm defending by Evra. Sigurdsson, lovely ball in and they
:11:24. > :11:35.have won back! Sigthorsson on the near post. A very well worked goal,
:11:36. > :11:39.this. It came from the throw. Lovely ball, that is, for someone to attack
:11:40. > :11:49.and it's a super finish. Crossing the marker. Just a toe in the past
:11:50. > :11:59.Hugo Lloris. That's a poor challenge. Bjarnason. Has he really
:12:00. > :12:05.caught him? That's the question I'd like answered. The food came over
:12:06. > :12:11.the top of the ball and then he let it go a little bit higher, his leg.
:12:12. > :12:16.Yes, he went to catch him. I'm not sure he actually did, but the
:12:17. > :12:24.intention was very much there. Payet bending it in, Giroud! France have a
:12:25. > :12:36.fifth. Brave header, this is. This is all about Giroud. Great ball in
:12:37. > :12:42.from Payet. Brilliant delivery. Purposeful centre forward on the end
:12:43. > :12:50.of it. The biggest scoreline of the competition so far. Well, this is
:12:51. > :12:56.tailor-made for him. So good at attacking the ball. Much maligned in
:12:57. > :13:00.some quarters, Giroud. Look at that, absolutely no doubt whatsoever. He
:13:01. > :13:03.scored a similar goal against Romania in the first game of the
:13:04. > :13:06.competition, when the Romanian goalkeeper was all over the place as
:13:07. > :13:11.well, just like the Icelandic goalkeeper. He is much maligned but
:13:12. > :13:29.he has 34 goals for club and country this season.
:13:30. > :13:47.Corner ball. Threatening, wasn't it. Sagna. Has he tweaked something? No.
:13:48. > :13:57.Just wanted some sympathy for a rank back header. First corner of the
:13:58. > :14:04.game. Oh, brilliant save, Lloris. Outstanding goalkeeper. Outstanding
:14:05. > :14:17.save. The Germans will be watching this with interest. Looking for in
:14:18. > :14:23.-- Ingason once more. It is a throw but it was a terrific effort on goal
:14:24. > :14:32.by the substitute centre-half. Gunnarsson launching it in.
:14:33. > :14:40.He stayed in there again. That definitely get a hand. It came of
:14:41. > :15:06.his foot, I think. His 88th cap for Iceland, and very
:15:07. > :15:08.probably his last, Eidur Gudjohnsen. What a career this man has had, I
:15:09. > :15:51.Gudjohnsen. -- Eidur Gudjohnsen. Another well worked goal, very
:15:52. > :15:54.simple as well. Kept his eye on the ball. It looked for a second like it
:15:55. > :16:00.wasn't going to reach him. A really good finish. Yet again, for the
:16:01. > :16:13.French, another question over their defensive qualities, or lack of.
:16:14. > :16:31.Cleared away. Just. Good play in the end by Mangala. But now Lloris's
:16:32. > :16:41.decision-making is in question. Half a minute left of stoppage time.
:16:42. > :16:52.Corner ball only. And that will be the end of it.
:16:53. > :17:03.For Iceland, the bold, enticing adventure is over. France go on to
:17:04. > :17:18.meet Germany in the semifinals of Euro 16. Two for Giroud, Pogba and
:17:19. > :17:22.Payet, but Sigurjonsson -- Sigthorsson and Bjarnason scored for
:17:23. > :17:24.Iceland. But, for them, the adventure comes to an end in France,
:17:25. > :17:35.the hosts, are in the last four. Well, they had a great tournament
:17:36. > :17:39.and their spirit has been phenomenal, but it is now over, and
:17:40. > :17:45.here are the thoughts and within the Iceland camp. They were basically
:17:46. > :17:50.too good, they played well. We didn't play our best game,
:17:51. > :17:54.especially the first half, but I think in the second half we came
:17:55. > :18:04.back and showed character and, in the end, the first half ruined the
:18:05. > :18:07.game for us. Coming here and get into the quarterfinals in the Euros,
:18:08. > :18:11.the players have done a marvellous job. Even if it's disappointing now,
:18:12. > :18:17.the big picture, a fantastic journey. It's been a fantastic
:18:18. > :18:23.tournament, something special for a small team like us. But I think we
:18:24. > :18:29.have probably over retrieved something nobody expected us to do,
:18:30. > :18:38.-- we have probably over achieved. It gives kids back home hope that it
:18:39. > :18:42.is possible. It is a totally different feeling, playing in a
:18:43. > :18:48.tournament like this where you have support like that, so it has meant
:18:49. > :18:51.everything to us, and I think -- I thank them very much and I'm sure my
:18:52. > :18:54.team-mates are thinking the same thing. Let's confirm the draw for
:18:55. > :19:10.the semifinals. Never mind kids in Iceland being
:19:11. > :19:15.inspired, it should be kids across Europe. How much do you praise
:19:16. > :19:20.France? How much do you consider it a game too far for Iceland was to
:19:21. > :19:25.mark definitely a game too far, but I have to praise France. They played
:19:26. > :19:29.against a so-called lesser nation and they showed how you should play
:19:30. > :19:35.them. They moved the ball quickly. Cryptically be three in midfield,
:19:36. > :19:39.Griezmann, Pogba on the way they moved the ball wide and put them
:19:40. > :19:43.under pressure. You can't be too critical of Iceland, a superb
:19:44. > :19:49.tournament, but they came up against a better side. When they played
:19:50. > :19:53.Portugal in their first game, they conceded 26 shots and blocked the
:19:54. > :19:57.majority. Danny Murphy said to me, they can't do that for the whole
:19:58. > :20:01.tournament, and tonight they didn't defend like they have done for the
:20:02. > :20:06.rest of the tournament. Unfortunately it is difficult. They
:20:07. > :20:13.are playing a side, the home country, it's in France, they never
:20:14. > :20:16.really get eaten, France, so it was very difficult for them to put in a
:20:17. > :20:23.dogged performance, like they did against other teams. Rusher never
:20:24. > :20:29.really get beaten, France. They defended too high? I don't know if
:20:30. > :20:33.it was a game plan or what, but they have always got a good line up about
:20:34. > :20:37.them, they are all close together, which is what you want. France start
:20:38. > :20:42.moving the ball and they drop off. That's what they've been doing well,
:20:43. > :20:47.not letting anybody in behind them. They have been dropping off into
:20:48. > :20:52.that area you can see. This time, and easy ball format to Eadie, and a
:20:53. > :21:00.very good finish from Giroud. -- and easy ball for Blaise Matuidi. It is
:21:01. > :21:05.a simple ball at this level of football for a player like Blaise
:21:06. > :21:10.Matuidi. Giroud makes the run, not blessed with great pace, but a good
:21:11. > :21:15.finish. I don't know why they wanted to play high tonight. I think they
:21:16. > :21:23.struggled on set pieces, high balls being played in. Although the keeper
:21:24. > :21:27.there, Halldorsson, is flapping, he gets nowhere near it. That was it
:21:28. > :21:30.simple goal for them. It's not in keeping with how they defended in
:21:31. > :21:40.this tournament. He is going to lack that up, Giroud, that sort of shadow
:21:41. > :21:44.-- chance. There has been debate about Paul Pogba in this tournament,
:21:45. > :21:49.but it shouldn't be have gotten -- it shouldn't be forgotten how young
:21:50. > :21:52.he is. He struggled in the first couple of games. He didn't really
:21:53. > :21:58.get into it. When he played Switzerland, the first half, you
:21:59. > :22:01.started to see the real Pogba, getting forward from midfield,
:22:02. > :22:08.getting strikes from distance, keeping the ball. That is what I
:22:09. > :22:12.suppose you get from him. You do. Highline, simple runs. For these
:22:13. > :22:23.forward, its basic stuff. This is where they get the corner from that
:22:24. > :22:27.Highline. Zonal marking? They have marked zonal, nobody putting the
:22:28. > :22:34.block on, and they allow the three players to run freely into the six
:22:35. > :22:40.yard box. Three on the six yard box, the width of the goal. Pogba, with
:22:41. > :22:45.his height and ability in the air... It's a super goal. Look at the
:22:46. > :22:50.height he jumped to get on the end of that. But I'd be extremely
:22:51. > :22:56.critical of Iceland, how they have lined up, marking, the zonal system.
:22:57. > :23:01.It is a simple header in the end. Give him credit for jumping nine
:23:02. > :23:10.feet and for doing the dance. We have seen that celebration a few
:23:11. > :23:15.times. That brings us an... We are going to look at the Payet goal and
:23:16. > :23:19.the Griezmann goal, but that brings us onto a dilemma for Didier
:23:20. > :23:22.Deschamps for the semifinals, because it looked like a better
:23:23. > :23:28.chance tonight with just two in midfield. Griezmann likes to play
:23:29. > :23:35.around the striker. He can't dribble. He doesn't pass players, so
:23:36. > :23:42.he is better floating around. Tonight, he caused problems. He has
:23:43. > :23:49.to play Pogba. On the right-hand side, Griezmann was playing against
:23:50. > :23:53.the better side. Against sides like Iceland, he is better playing as a
:23:54. > :24:01.number ten. You can see that he will interchange with Payet, giving scope
:24:02. > :24:07.for Payet to come in off the wing. They haven't changed a lot. This is
:24:08. > :24:14.a great goal. -- they have interchanged a lot. A little
:24:15. > :24:20.knock-down from Giroud. They both come quite narrow, quite centrally.
:24:21. > :24:25.Pogba, shifting it onto his left foot. A great finish. When you have
:24:26. > :24:31.Griezmann in the middle, it can also look like a partnership with Giroud.
:24:32. > :24:39.The goal against Ireland in the last round, it was a knock-down from
:24:40. > :24:45.Giroud -- from Griezmann and Giroud knocked it through the middle.
:24:46. > :24:51.Believes it, Giroud gets to shout over. -- he leaves it. He likes to
:24:52. > :24:57.run, he likes to spin in behind. That is his ideal position, where he
:24:58. > :25:08.played tonight. It would be a big call to leave, take out. It is the
:25:09. > :25:12.golden boot at the moment. The French have got the top three.
:25:13. > :25:18.Gareth Bale can obviously still add to his three. Even though they lost,
:25:19. > :25:22.even though they won it 5-2, rather, there will still be negative. Mark
:25:23. > :25:25.Lawrenson said in the commentary that the Germans will be watching
:25:26. > :25:32.this with interest, particularly how they defended. Every ball that went
:25:33. > :25:38.into the area, and long throws, from corners... We have seen this setup.
:25:39. > :25:42.You have to know how to defend that. If you go and attack those first
:25:43. > :25:46.balls, the second balls they don't react to do well, I didn't feel, the
:25:47. > :25:51.French players, and that is throughout the tournament. That is a
:25:52. > :25:55.real vulnerability. Every time they come in box, nobody in front. The
:25:56. > :26:02.last time was a goal against England. Great save by Lloris. Great
:26:03. > :26:05.reaction save. At this level of football, playing a quality side in
:26:06. > :26:11.Germany next game, you cannot allow this time on the ball. Nobody closes
:26:12. > :26:19.them down. A wonderful ball. He has the angle to put the ball in that
:26:20. > :26:24.gap. There folk queueing up. When he watched Italy last night, they allow
:26:25. > :26:29.teams to cross. They like defending. France isn't comfortable with that.
:26:30. > :26:35.Playing Italy last night, they are going to get a different sort of
:26:36. > :26:41.team going into the semifinal. They have shuffled a bit tonight. They
:26:42. > :26:46.have had problems. Germany will be able to take advantage. These are
:26:47. > :26:51.the set piece goals they have scored in this tournament against Ukraine,
:26:52. > :27:00.against Slovakia and you go back to World Cup 2014, Kevin, scored by a
:27:01. > :27:04.player who won't be available for the semifinal because he is
:27:05. > :27:08.suspended. The atmosphere in Marseille will be rocking.
:27:09. > :27:14.Unbelievable. The atmosphere will be cracking. France are unbeaten in
:27:15. > :27:22.their last 17 major tournament games on home soil, the Euros in 94 and
:27:23. > :27:28.the World Cup. We love a good statistic! They have proved how
:27:29. > :27:32.vulnerable they are on set pieces, how Germany put them out to years
:27:33. > :27:40.ago. I fancy Germany. Even though they are missing important players.
:27:41. > :27:46.They are losing Gomez and another big player. Here is what is coming
:27:47. > :27:52.up over the next few days. You can follow Wales against Portugal across
:27:53. > :27:52.the BBC. On Wednesday night, we will have live coverage of Germany
:27:53. > :28:08.against France. Andy Murray's fourth-round match
:28:09. > :28:16.against Nick Kyrgios will be the fourth-round highlight tomorrow
:28:17. > :28:20.Wimbledon. Thank you to Chris and to Kevin. The sun has set an Iceland's
:28:21. > :28:36.stunning campaign. Only four now remain. Good night.
:28:37. > :28:43.Portugal have done it on penalty kicks! They are through to the
:28:44. > :28:50.semifinals. Something special is happening here tonight.
:28:51. > :28:59.Unbelievable! Germany are through to the semifinals of the European
:29:00. > :29:04.Championship. Iceland have simply been blown away.
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