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. This is Johnathan Pearce. The host against the Magic makers of Iceland. | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
Germany in the semifinals await the winners. We wanted to end like it | :01:02. | :01:08. | |
did for Leicester City, and believe in fairy tales like Iceland. It is a | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
meeting place between and a great night and an incredible story. The | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
hosts, they have the target of a semifinal achievable and a | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
magnificent clash with Germany. For Iceland, the wind would represent | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
the most beautiful midnight sunshine for the land of ice and fire. Two | :01:31. | :01:39. | |
changes with Rami and Kante band. -- serving aback. Umtiti becomes the | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
first French outfield debut to and for French since 1966. Payet and | :01:44. | :01:54. | |
Griezmann are the men in form. Lloris is well aware of the danger. | :01:55. | :02:05. | |
They are telling themselves that we are the best and we have more | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
Iceland, and if we think like that, we won't go through full -- through. | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
Nine players on one yellow card, and very little space between defence | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
and attack. Gylfi Sigurdsson has been one of the best passers in the | :02:22. | :02:30. | |
tournament. They will note that the last people to beat France in a | :02:31. | :02:35. | |
major tournament have gone on to win the tournament. France, all in blue. | :02:36. | :02:42. | |
They will kick us off and under way for a place in the last four. | :02:43. | :02:48. | |
Kicking from left to right. On a grisly evening, as it has been | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
raining powers. Mark Lawrenson, which way will it go? It's a nice | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
night for Iceland, because it is cold. Every time I have seen France, | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
they have played with fear. If Iceland can make them play that way | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
tonight, who knows? The main aim for the French, according to the media | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
here, is to get players isolated with the full-backs, such as | :03:10. | :03:19. | |
Severson. He looked a bit suspect against England when Rashford came | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
on. Skulason on the left. An early trip on Griezmann. Bjarnason has had | :03:26. | :03:33. | |
a good competition. A man they call thought. -- Thor. Dimitri Payet will | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
take the free kick commerce who scored that wonderful winner on the | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
opening night -- will take the free kick, who scored that wonderful | :03:48. | :03:57. | |
winner. The centre halves are up Amat was a foul. -- and that was a | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
foul. Sigurdsson went down. Wrestled to the ground by Pogba. He likes a | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
foul in the box, doesn't he? Aron Gunnarsson. He had such a good | :04:12. | :04:43. | |
game against Ronaldo. The Portuguese destroyed him playing for Malmo in | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
the Champions League. Now Sigurdsson. In 11 games against | :04:46. | :04:56. | |
Iceland, France have never been beaten. Six home wins out of six. | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
Here is an opportunity for Berg Gudmundsson. I wonder how long he | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
will be a Charlton Athletic player after their dismal campaign. I'm | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
surprised he still is. There will be a fair amount of movement in the | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
next three weeks after the tournament has ended. | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
Sigthorsson is waiting on the edge of the penalty area, the number | :05:24. | :05:32. | |
nine, who plays in France. He plays at Nantes. Gylfi Sigurdsson has had | :05:33. | :05:44. | |
a really good competition, the Swansea player. It was a really | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
untidy challenge by Umtiti. Very nervous. Not played even ten minutes | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
of a friendly international. We had a chance to be on before the | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
tournament, but France didn't use it. He sat on the bench in the warm | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
up internationals, and that was against Scotland. Gunnarsson drops | :06:07. | :06:18. | |
deep. That's where he's made 75% of his passes in the tournament. | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
Sigthorsson, who scored against England, the Man of the Match | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
according to Uefa against England. It does mean a lot. No great | :06:29. | :06:38. | |
surprise about the early pace in the game. Pogba gets that one. | :06:39. | :06:45. | |
Sigurdsson is away. A powerful, no-nonsense defender. Gylfi | :06:46. | :06:55. | |
Sigurdsson. Syverson, the right back. -- Saevarsson. Lovely skill. | :06:56. | :07:13. | |
There's one thing about this Iceland team, it -- if you are playing in | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
it, you can close your eyes and know where every player is at that | :07:18. | :07:18. | |
moment. There is a Umtiti. Just gone to | :07:19. | :07:34. | |
Barcelona for 25 million euros. Only really in the squad because of | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
injuries and Rami's suspension. Bacary Sagna, who has got better as | :07:39. | :07:52. | |
the tournament has gone on, becoming one of the best full-backs ear. He | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
should be with his experience. Here is Matuidi. -- one of the best | :07:59. | :07:59. | |
full-backs ear. -- here. Pogba. Sissoko. Powerful in the game | :08:00. | :08:17. | |
against Switzerland. I think if you look at the power that Sissoko, | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Matuidi and Pogba have in midfield, it is outstanding. Giroud. Sissoko. | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Payet. Space on the left. He will shoot. And it very nearly came back | :08:27. | :08:37. | |
off Halldorsson. He has made more saves than anybody else in the | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
competition so far Mattis 's first of what will be a busy night | :08:42. | :08:42. | |
tonight. -- and that ease his first. The French fans matched the Iceland | :08:43. | :08:58. | |
fans for the rhythmic chanting that has become a feature of the finals, | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
the Icelandic Viking style chanting, which actually derives from | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
Motherwell supporters, apparently. Something they did in a game in | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
Europe a few years back. Sissoko. Touched off brilliantly by Giroud. A | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
slippery knighthood goalkeepers. -- a slippery night for goalkeepers. | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
Halldorsson does well, he reads the situation. Bjarnason. | :09:30. | :09:42. | |
Gets in again, Bjarnason. So much pressure on Didier Deschamps. He has | :09:43. | :09:52. | |
made big changes, bold changes in selection when he has needed to land | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
in substitutions. I think he has stumbled on the Pogba and Matuidi | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
thing through central midfield. What happened with Kante against the | :10:02. | :10:11. | |
Republic of Ireland? Bodvarsson. Matuidi is there with him. That is a | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
foul on Dimitri Payet Amat will be, will it, the first yellow card of | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
the night? -- and that will be. They have to be very careful in their own | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
box. They dive in a little bit. A bit of a warning for Aron | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
Gunnarsson. He was a very good handball player | :10:34. | :10:56. | |
in his youth, and France did beat Iceland to the gold medal for | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
handball gold. Sad life. Here comes the great, rhythmic | :11:04. | :11:15. | |
Icelandic clapping. And the French are trying to match it. It's | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
haunting, isn't it? It is. You say comes from Motherwell supporters, | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
but imagine the same sort of rhythmic chanting from the Vikings. | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
You can't imagine it. Imagine them coming down your street. A famous | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
battle near Newbury, King Alfred's men beating the Danish Vikings. | :11:42. | :11:54. | |
Decent effort from Bjarnason. Starting brightly, Iceland. Got the | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
shot away. Showing no respect, which is really healthy. There are the | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
managers, Lars Lagerback, and Hal Grimson. And he takes over the job | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
himself after the finals. He gives up his day job as a gent -- dentist. | :12:14. | :12:25. | |
I thought he was just filling in. Urgh. Koscielny. | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
Looking for Sagna. Sissoko very quick to clothes. -- close. Just a | :12:33. | :12:46. | |
throw in. I thought it was gagged over a free kick but the assistant | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
didn't flag. I think Iceland win the ball. A bit of a threat in terms of | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
the tackle but he did actually win the ball. | :12:53. | :13:05. | |
You say this is their fifth unchanged team? A very settled side | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
and the first country to confirm their squad for the finals back on | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
the 9th of May. Very, very settled. Some teams go around making six | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
changes and things like that. They are the ones sat at home now. That | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
was a scene -- that was a foul on Poyet, it seemed. -- Payet. | :13:29. | :13:40. | |
Saevarsson. He plays his football in Sweden. Sigurdsson. One interesting | :13:41. | :13:57. | |
the Premier League clubs, but he is 30 now. Plays in Russia. Bjarnason, | :13:58. | :14:10. | |
at the back with Sigurdsson. Bounces awkwardly off Gunnarsson. | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
Interesting French reaction to the defeat of England by Iceland, saying | :14:22. | :14:28. | |
that England, even on a bad day, and it was a bad day, should have gone | :14:29. | :14:43. | |
on to beat Iceland and it put Griezmann and Payet in a reflective | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
mood. Here is Giroud. 1-0, France! Too much space, and he exploited it. | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
12 minutes gone, and the host arrowhead. It's the first time they | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
have led in the first half in the finals -- and the hosts are ahead. | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
So much space I wondered if he was on or offside. Didier Deschamps grip | :15:07. | :15:18. | |
side ahead. -- Didier Deschamps's side ahead. They had doubts about | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
him before the tournament started, he was on their favourite son, but | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
he is now. A really poor goal for Iceland to concede, but a great | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
finish. In amongst the feet of the goalkeeper, very hard to stop. Nine | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
goals in his last 11 internationals. We did the first game, and they | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
booed him onto the pitch. This is the 68th game for club and country | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
of a wearying campaign for him. France are ahead. But a Umtiti was | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
outjumped there. Koscielny tidies up. Iceland have been here before | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
though, haven't they? I don't think they will change at all the way they | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
play, even though they are a goal down. Here comes the throw. They | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
know what to expect. Will they defend the long throw better than | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
England did? Arnason tries to lose his marker. Sigurdsson, and that is | :16:22. | :16:32. | |
a French throne. Giroud was back in there helping out, say the French | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
have obviously practised against these throws. The two suspended | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
players there. This will be intriguing if France | :16:38. | :16:53. | |
have an impressive night to the way that the team built in 1998 from a | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
sluggish start. A slow burn in that competition and then they just | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
became a runaway juggernaut and no one could stop them. Mind you, they | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
had a fellow called Zinedine Zidane in the side. What a midfield that | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
was. Emmanuel Petit, Patrick Vieira. Griezmann. | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
Sissoko, to Griezmann. One back by Sigurdsson. | :17:19. | :17:31. | |
Free kick given for the foul on the Nantes -based player. It was Pogba, | :17:32. | :17:41. | |
and he originally lost the ball. Hasn't had a great time with Nantes, | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
Sigurdsson, he nearly left in the January transfer window and he had a | :17:48. | :17:50. | |
knee injury in the build-up to this competition. Scored against England, | :17:51. | :17:52. | |
of course. Arcing it in. Little bit of a waste, | :17:53. | :18:11. | |
isn't it? Especially after you've just conceded a goal. You want but | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
the French defence under more pressure. If they watched Lloris in | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
the warm up, you can understand why they are testing in. Yes, like the | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
other day, he looked very, very nervy. I wonder if the pressure of | :18:23. | :18:29. | |
captaincy in a major tournament on home soil is too much. Yes, apart | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
from that it's all fine. Has won a number of his caps as captain. The | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
only thing about him is that he has not really use the ball in | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
distribution very well in this competition. Listen to this. | :18:43. | :18:54. | |
Terrific atmosphere again. It's like being at a concert. Griezmann. What | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
a different player he looks when he plays through the middle, rather | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
than on the right where he started the competition. Back to Payet. | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
Pogba has left foot in there. He might get a booking for this. No. | :19:13. | :19:21. | |
He said it was his first one, but he just have the foul before by the | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
touchline. Maybe he's taking into consideration the wet turf. They | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
weren't allowed to train here last time. Didier Deschamps Lloris flew | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
in by helicopter for the press conferences and so on. | :19:40. | :19:47. | |
Gudmundsson. Saevarsson. Good play by Iceland. The writeback gets the | :19:48. | :20:06. | |
ball, has want a chat of his feet and whips it in. Everybody knows | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
what they are doing and attacks the second ball. No challenge on the | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
keeper. They've had more challenges in the air than any other side at | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
Euro 2016. England with the second highest number and Northern Ireland | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
the first, and France, the fourth. That is Giroud. | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
Sigthorsson comes to this. That way by Koscielny. Here is Pogba. Umtiti. | :20:41. | :20:58. | |
Matuidi, to Payet. Sissoko has opened up the gap for Sagna. | :20:59. | :21:12. | |
Really wretched night, weather-wise. I can't remember a summer tournament | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
where it's been played like this. It's been played in the winter. Up | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
to Griezmann, and that is a corner kick. | :21:27. | :21:38. | |
First corner kick of the game. Here he is. Just under six foot tall, the | :21:39. | :21:48. | |
22-year-old. Griezmann with the corner, and the long, long wait for | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
a French goal weights -- ends for Paul Pogba. It's his first since | :21:57. | :22:09. | |
October 2014 in French colours. And the underdogs have it all to do now | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
against the hosts. If you said before the game what sort of goal | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
Iceland would concede, you wouldn't pick the first or second. Very | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
simple, easy goals for France to score. No one in with him. Valiant | :22:25. | :22:40. | |
effort to keep it out on the line. Great leap from Pogba. | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
Way above us, the second French goal. | :22:48. | :22:58. | |
17 eye thought that was a corner kick given. Or was that a free kick | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
-- 17 9/11. -- Sigthorsson. Hand ball. Iceland need to go ten | :23:08. | :23:33. | |
minutes without conceding a third or else it will be game over. , shell | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
me on the right of the centre-back. -- Salvatore Sirigu. -- Mesut Ozil. | :23:42. | :24:06. | |
Fiery character. He will take the throw. The French are singing. | :24:07. | :24:29. | |
Sigthorsson, away by Patrice Evra. 78 macro for Patrice Evra, he is 35. | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
There was some doubt that he would play, he had a hand injury, he hurt | :24:37. | :24:49. | |
fingers in the game against Ireland. Site now. -- Bacary Sagna. France | :24:50. | :25:00. | |
had an early rhythm and are now well on top. There is an early release of | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
pressure. Samuel Umtiti. Great pressure on the | :25:04. | :25:26. | |
ball there, France playing in the comfort zone. They are dominating | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
the ball, it is difficult for Iceland at the moment. Blaise | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
Matuidi. Dimitri Payet. Blaise Matuidi a game. Arneson is with him. | :25:41. | :25:53. | |
I hope he was not diving. He was a little bit. Great attacking of the | :25:54. | :26:07. | |
ball. I think the guy on the line seemed to duck a little bit. The | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
President likes it. There has been extra security because he is here. | :26:15. | :26:25. | |
That would be an understatement. Samuel Umtiti has been so important | :26:26. | :26:27. | |
for Lyon. They will miss him. Here comes a long throw. Gunnarsson | :26:28. | :26:45. | |
with it. It has been a miserable 2016 for Cardiff, only four league | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
starts for him. Chance for the long throw. I'm not gone. He should have | :26:51. | :27:03. | |
scored. Brilliantly worked. Everyone knows what will happen, it is very | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
difficult to stop it sometimes. Should have done better. He thought | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
he was being impeded but he was not. Good pressure by Samuel Umtiti. | :27:16. | :27:29. | |
Might not get many opportunities. He was a good coach, took Sweden to | :27:30. | :27:37. | |
five finals in a row. Olivier Giroud taken quickly. Closed down by | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
Gunnarsson. Site that could not keep it in play | :27:45. | :28:26. | |
-- Bacary Sagna. Skulason. It is a way. Caught in | :28:27. | :28:55. | |
possession, France are much sharper. Dimitri Payet. Dispossessed. | :28:56. | :29:07. | |
Good chase out there. The French fans loved it. | :29:08. | :29:17. | |
Dimitri Payet to Samuel Umtiti. Good play. Paul Pogba. Lovely ball to | :29:18. | :29:29. | |
Olivier Giraud. Staying onside. Bacary Sagna coming up in support. | :29:30. | :29:38. | |
Did not continue the run. Here is Paul Pogba. Blaise Matuidi. Didier | :29:39. | :29:48. | |
Defago day shop played him to the right-hand side but it did not work | :29:49. | :29:52. | |
early in the campaign -- the French manager. | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
He has won that back again. Cissokho. Antoine Griezmann to the | :30:00. | :30:07. | |
right-hand side. Held onto it too long. -- Moussa Sissoko. He did not | :30:08. | :30:16. | |
want the ball. The Iceland supporters have been in | :30:17. | :30:40. | |
great voice and they are chanting again now. They have it all to do. | :30:41. | :30:48. | |
Giroud. Good challenge. A corner. They need to stick this one where | :30:49. | :31:03. | |
they stuck the last one, when Paul Pogba at scored, do not do anything | :31:04. | :31:04. | |
different. Who will attack Pol Pot but when he | :31:05. | :31:20. | |
comes in? Zonal marking by the Iceland defenders will allow, shell | :31:21. | :31:30. | |
me and Giroud to get end -- Laurent Koscielny. Dimitri Payet with the | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
delivery, decent clearance. Dimitri Payet again. Skulason, the left-back | :31:37. | :31:44. | |
is in front of him. Moussa Sissoko, Dimitri Payet. Has a look. | :31:45. | :31:57. | |
Sigthorsson got it away. He is playing on, Laurent Koscielny was | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
fouled. At that stage, he cannot bring back, the referee. The | :32:02. | :32:03. | |
Arneson. -- Bjarnason. French fans do not | :32:04. | :32:19. | |
like it, they think they should have had the free kick. | :32:20. | :32:31. | |
Arnason had spells at Plymouth and Aberdeen and Rotherham. | :32:32. | :32:39. | |
Bjarnason. Very good season with basil. -- Basle. | :32:40. | :33:06. | |
Samuel TT with the challenge. We have not really seen him at all, | :33:07. | :33:13. | |
Sigurdsson. -- Samuel Umtiti. Long throw by Aron Gunnarsson. Not | :33:14. | :33:41. | |
too long. Slipped out of his hands a little bit. On this day in 2000, | :33:42. | :33:51. | |
there were people in the centre of Paris celebrating the victorious | :33:52. | :33:55. | |
Euro 2000 winners, they were celebrating by now. However we are | :33:56. | :34:01. | |
not at the semifinal stage this time around. Your thoughts overall on the | :34:02. | :34:09. | |
extended European finals. They have played an awful lot of games to get | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
rid of eight teams, I think it is daft. Portugal could win this | :34:16. | :34:20. | |
competition and not win a game in 90 minutes! Iceland being here has | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
nothing to do with the extended competition, they are hereby rights, | :34:27. | :34:31. | |
they beat Holland home and away, they had at mentis in qualifying. | :34:32. | :34:41. | |
They invested money in pitches and indoor arenas, 639 coaches for 3000 | :34:42. | :34:44. | |
players. Moussa Sissoko did well. Dimitri | :34:45. | :34:58. | |
Payet. To the Newcastle player, Newcastle for how much longer, one | :34:59. | :35:04. | |
wonders. Dimitri Payet, Antoine Griezmann, a bit of space there. | :35:05. | :35:13. | |
Blaise Matuidi. Dimitri Payet. They want to use them, bring him in now. | :35:14. | :35:21. | |
Iceland holding their shape as they have done throughout the tournament. | :35:22. | :35:32. | |
76,830 people here at the start to France. It is a wet and miserable | :35:33. | :35:39. | |
July evening -- in the stadium. At least 10,000 from Iceland here, in | :35:40. | :35:46. | |
Paris this evening. Space for Patrice Evra. Moussa | :35:47. | :36:02. | |
Sissoko strayed offside. He disagrees. | :36:03. | :36:09. | |
Sigurdsson with the big heave Ho. Won it eventually. France unbeaten | :36:10. | :36:40. | |
in eight games. They look strong. Sigurdsson. To the fullback. | :36:41. | :36:50. | |
Arneson. That is offside, Giroud, came from | :36:51. | :37:01. | |
an offside position. It will take more than the chanting | :37:02. | :37:58. | |
of the Iceland fans to bring them back into this. Ten minutes to go in | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
the half. School arson. -- Skulason. Giroud to Moussa Sissoko. Paul pot | :38:03. | :38:26. | |
but to Blaise Matuidi. -- Paul Pogba. France are 2-0 up, playing | :38:27. | :38:35. | |
within themselves, Blaise Matuidi thought about the big one out to the | :38:36. | :38:41. | |
right, no need, it is late in the half, keep it simple. They are | :38:42. | :38:49. | |
working Iceland. Making it difficult for them to chase the game. Laurent | :38:50. | :39:00. | |
Koscielny. Blaise Matuidi in now. The Cameron defender. Cameron born | :39:01. | :39:12. | |
defender. Pol Pot but to Antoine Griezmann, could this be three? -- | :39:13. | :39:29. | |
Paul Pogba. Here is Sigurdsson. Brings in Bjarnason. Skulason, now | :39:30. | :39:32. | |
Bjarnason. Very Conservative that from Patrice | :39:33. | :40:01. | |
Evra. Giroud made a really good run. It has at the moment, the feeling of | :40:02. | :40:12. | |
a training game. The Iceland players have coursing through them the idea | :40:13. | :40:15. | |
they have done brilliantly well to get this far and maybe they will get | :40:16. | :40:18. | |
no further. Laurent Koscielny. There will be | :40:19. | :40:34. | |
many people back at home saying if France can beat Iceland this easily, | :40:35. | :40:39. | |
why could England not do it? They would be right. Antoine Griezmann. | :40:40. | :40:48. | |
Paul Pogba having a good night. Blaise Matuidi! That was swinging. | :40:49. | :40:55. | |
You could see that he realised it was going to be on his left, he | :40:56. | :41:01. | |
prefers his right foot, slightly panicked. Dimitri Payet, still | :41:02. | :41:03. | |
managed to pick someone out. This is his 69th game in a | :41:04. | :41:21. | |
meandering campaign for club and country, although they played | :41:22. | :41:28. | |
friendly matches, they have played all the teams from the groups to | :41:29. | :41:33. | |
make it more competitive. A throw to France. | :41:34. | :41:56. | |
Bacary Sagna. Laurent Koscielny. It has to be said, the French have had | :41:57. | :42:04. | |
a lot of things in their favour. We know they are the hosts, but the | :42:05. | :42:09. | |
amount of time they have had in between games, very fortunate. One | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
week since they played Ireland in their last game, it was a week | :42:15. | :42:18. | |
before that after their previous match. Bacary Sagna scoops it, | :42:19. | :42:25. | |
Giroud with the header, the keeper comes to claim it. Giroud was a | :42:26. | :42:32. | |
little bit unlucky, he was under pressure from the two centre-backs. | :42:33. | :42:40. | |
France unbeaten now in 16 games in major tournaments on home soil. | :42:41. | :42:52. | |
Czechoslovakia beat them in the play-off in 1960 in the Euros. Five | :42:53. | :43:00. | |
minutes to go. The French dominating the first half. They have had 62% of | :43:01. | :43:08. | |
the ball and they lead 2-0. Skulason. Moussa Sissoko fouled him. | :43:09. | :43:22. | |
He is a good piece of kit. Iceland need a hammer blow. | :43:23. | :43:48. | |
Sigurdsson. The free kick. Tempting, teasing, O! Jittery. Hugo Lloris. I | :43:49. | :43:52. | |
think he did that on purpose, he sees it late and it's gets up and he | :43:53. | :43:57. | |
flicks it up to go at it for the second attempt. | :43:58. | :44:10. | |
Sigurdsson, gave it away. Antoine Griezmann. Moussa Sissoko. Dimitri | :44:11. | :44:46. | |
Payet. At Bacary Sagna has four to hit in the middle, Giroud is the | :44:47. | :44:55. | |
target. 3-0. France as good as in the semi-finals. How simple was that | :44:56. | :45:02. | |
goal. This time it was a very well worked goal. Nice interchange of | :45:03. | :45:12. | |
passing. Really well worked goal by France. Two minutes before the | :45:13. | :45:13. | |
break. The French flags are flying now. | :45:14. | :45:32. | |
Dimitri Payet has surely close the door on Iceland. Early ball from | :45:33. | :45:42. | |
Bacary Sagna, good leap by Giroud, nice touch by Antoine Griezmann, it | :45:43. | :45:45. | |
is across the goal, difficult for the goalkeeper. Greasy surface have | :45:46. | :46:02. | |
-- helps as well with the ball. He knows how important the third goal | :46:03. | :46:13. | |
would be. The old rivalry against Germany game in the semi-finals. One | :46:14. | :46:21. | |
game too many for Iceland. What a story it has been for them. The | :46:22. | :46:28. | |
thing was, that is the first really well worked goal they have scored, | :46:29. | :46:33. | |
the other two were very bog-standard in terms of how they scored them. It | :46:34. | :46:41. | |
is the fifth goal in his last six internationals for Dimitri Payet. He | :46:42. | :46:46. | |
was second in the Uefa form table behind Kevin De Bruyne. Lovely touch | :46:47. | :46:53. | |
by Giroud. Antoine Griezmann is end. It is four! -- but -- is in. France | :46:54. | :47:08. | |
find irrepressible form. They are 4-0 up against Iceland who have | :47:09. | :47:10. | |
simply been blown away! This is real quality, great ball, | :47:11. | :47:42. | |
Giroud does brilliantly for Antoine Griezmann and of all the people to | :47:43. | :47:47. | |
get the chance to come to, you knew he was not going to miss. Two goals | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
conceded, straight through the back of their defence. | :47:52. | :47:58. | |
His 38th goal for club and country this season. What's all that about? | :47:59. | :48:08. | |
Well, up until this moment they had only played 90 minutes once | :48:09. | :48:14. | |
together, Payet and Griezmann, and they have both scored a goal in this | :48:15. | :48:20. | |
45. Pogba and Giroud with the other two, and France are as good as in | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
the final four as they lead by four goals. | :48:25. | :48:39. | |
On comes Alfred Finnbogason, who's just completed a permanent move to | :48:40. | :48:55. | |
Augsburg. And Ingason has come on for Arnason, and he's played just | :48:56. | :49:01. | |
five bits of the competition so far. He has come on for a little spell | :49:02. | :49:07. | |
against Austria before -- five minutes. A lovely spin by Payet at | :49:08. | :49:11. | |
the start of the half for France. It stirs the ground. They can afford to | :49:12. | :49:21. | |
showboat at 4-0. Just give you some indication Iceland's task. In the | :49:22. | :49:28. | |
whole competition so far, France have only allowed four shots on | :49:29. | :49:35. | |
their target in all the games. I saw Finnbogason play for real Sociedad, | :49:36. | :49:38. | |
and to be honest with you, he couldn't hit a barn door when I saw | :49:39. | :49:45. | |
him. They sent him out on loan in Fairbridge Augsburg. Seven clubs in | :49:46. | :49:51. | |
seven different countries for him. Evra. Payet. Matuidi. | :49:52. | :49:58. | |
When it comes to pick the best 11 of the competition, surely Matuidi will | :49:59. | :50:06. | |
be in there. On to Griezmann. Matuidi. | :50:07. | :50:14. | |
Such a difficult game now. What has the manager said to them at | :50:15. | :50:21. | |
half-time? Come on, lads, keep going? The France, that they take | :50:22. | :50:28. | |
Koscielny and Giroud of? Yellow cards go after tonight, if they pick | :50:29. | :50:35. | |
one up here, they would be suspended until the final. The two of them, | :50:36. | :50:39. | |
with the way the scoreline is at the moment, just don't go near any | :50:40. | :50:48. | |
challenges, literally. Evra. Umtiti, settled in the game. Looked nervy | :50:49. | :50:56. | |
earlier on. Stade de France, European Championship posts, making | :50:57. | :51:03. | |
your baby. -- making your debut. Big games will come for him in Spain | :51:04. | :51:10. | |
this season. If and when France go through, Germany, that is a whopper, | :51:11. | :51:14. | |
isn't it? And they will be looking at the fact that Mario Gomez is out, | :51:15. | :51:26. | |
and Khedira and Schweinsteiger are major doubts. And they can't take | :51:27. | :51:33. | |
penalties any more. That was unbelievable. | :51:34. | :51:40. | |
They use to 20 players in qualifying and have used the same starting XI | :51:41. | :52:12. | |
every game here, and those players can be justifiably proud. They have | :52:13. | :52:17. | |
given Iceland its greatest ever footballing experience. Sigthorsson | :52:18. | :52:20. | |
with a little header on. Matuidi. France playing around | :52:21. | :52:24. | |
Iceland. Here is Griezmann. How many passes in this move? Evra. | :52:25. | :52:57. | |
Matuidi. Griezmann is around the corner. | :52:58. | :53:06. | |
Sissoko. Griezmann. Payet. Well, what a goal that would have | :53:07. | :53:20. | |
been, probably 20 touches against one from Iceland, which probably set | :53:21. | :53:29. | |
up Payet. A move that remind me in Argentina in 2006, can't remember | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
who they were playing, but it was wonderful. Was it Macho Rodriguez? I | :53:34. | :53:41. | |
should remember, I was there. Well really? Didn't he go on loan to | :53:42. | :53:47. | |
Liverpool at some stage? Yes, he's in Serbia now. Who said that? | :53:48. | :53:56. | |
Sigurdsson. Skulason. Gylfi Sigurdsson. He hasn't really been at | :53:57. | :54:14. | |
the races today. Can you imagine the possession stats for the second half | :54:15. | :54:21. | |
alone, forget about the first half? Damage limitation now for Iceland. | :54:22. | :54:30. | |
Before the game, the joint manager said that they wanted it to end as | :54:31. | :54:44. | |
it ended for Leicester City in the Premier League. Well, it won't end | :54:45. | :54:48. | |
that way, but they can go out holding their heads high. The scalp | :54:49. | :54:55. | |
of England under their belts. And what people will make of this at | :54:56. | :55:01. | |
home, you can understand, Mark, they will be thinking, how on earth did | :55:02. | :55:06. | |
it happen? How can France tear Iceland apart when England couldn't? | :55:07. | :55:10. | |
Same story from two years ago, is it not? The French players today, | :55:11. | :55:19. | |
knowing the job they had to do. Griezmann, playing in a deeper role, | :55:20. | :55:24. | |
that he loves to play in. One back by Pogba and he lets fly. | :55:25. | :55:39. | |
They talked of stress before the opening game against Romania, but | :55:40. | :55:45. | |
they've have showed no such worries tonight. They got the early goal. | :55:46. | :55:51. | |
Until the finals they had actually forged a habit of scoring early, in | :55:52. | :55:54. | |
the opening ten minutes of matches, in the build-up games. Gunnarsson. | :55:55. | :56:04. | |
Towards Alfred Finnbogason. Lost is man. Brings in Gudmundsson. -- lost | :56:05. | :56:12. | |
his man. Needed to bang it in, but he tried to place it. | :56:13. | :56:18. | |
They will still be heroes when they get back to regulate. And they were. | :56:19. | :56:25. | |
Have a great night to night, the Icelandic supporters. We were with | :56:26. | :56:32. | |
them in a bar the other night, and one guy said he was one of the | :56:33. | :56:36. | |
eight. I think he was a bit eight over the eight, and still counting. | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
I think, as you alluded to before, the biggest decision for Didier | :56:41. | :56:56. | |
Deschamps is who and when to take the players off. Cygnus, and he | :56:57. | :57:07. | |
played every minute of qualifying and has had a good tournament. | :57:08. | :57:22. | |
Ingason. A man who had to double up as a part-time stadium odd job man, | :57:23. | :57:31. | |
Ingason. And the goalkeeper has only been a full-time professional | :57:32. | :57:36. | |
footballer for four years. He was the man that directed the Icelandic | :57:37. | :57:44. | |
Eurovision video in 2012. Never Forget, it was called. Interesting | :57:45. | :57:47. | |
to note that the French gave them zero points. | :57:48. | :58:00. | |
Saevarsson. It's the Icelandic fans you can hear singing. They have sung | :58:01. | :58:06. | |
this haunting melody before the game had started. No idea what the words | :58:07. | :58:15. | |
mean, but it is something special to them. The amp alone, that was | :58:16. | :58:26. | |
haunting. -- the anthem alone. It was terrific. | :58:27. | :58:36. | |
Matuidi Bijan by Gylfi Sigurdsson. -- beaten. He gets back at him. | :58:37. | :58:41. | |
Iceland throw. Gudmundsson will hurl it in towards | :58:42. | :59:06. | |
the near post. Sigthorsson is in there. Calm defending by Evra. | :59:07. | :59:16. | |
Aaron Gudmundsson. Gylfi Sigurdsson. Lovely ball in, and they have one | :59:17. | :59:26. | |
back. Sigthorsson at the near post. Actually, it's a really well worked | :59:27. | :59:27. | |
goal, this. Came from a throw in. Lovely ball | :59:28. | :59:44. | |
in, and a super finish. Across his marker, and a toe poke against Hugo | :59:45. | :59:54. | |
Lloris. The Germans will have noted that. He can applaud it. It might | :59:55. | :59:56. | |
just be a consolation. Sigthorsson's second of the | :59:57. | :00:01. | |
competition. A long-range effort stabbed in by | :00:02. | :00:17. | |
Paul Pogba. I think Griezmann was moaning at him | :00:18. | :00:31. | |
not to have a shot, telling him to pass the ball. It is interesting | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
that the first thing that has gone against them in the game has | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
produced a little bit of finger wagging between team-mates. Payet | :00:44. | :00:52. | |
with the touch. Matuidi. Griezmann. Giroud. Opening up on the right. | :00:53. | :00:58. | |
Well played. The pace on the ball will beat Sagna. | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
He will remember the day he scored against France in the mighty Stade | :01:05. | :01:16. | |
de France. That is a poor challenge. Has he really caught him, that's the | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
question I would like answered. He is saying not. This will tell us. | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
Well the food came over the top, and he let it go a bit higher up his | :01:29. | :01:35. | |
leg. Yes, he went to catch him but I'm not sure he actually did, but | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
the intention was very much there. And he will miss their next game. | :01:42. | :01:50. | |
Their next in European Championship football. When is that? Another 27 | :01:51. | :02:04. | |
years? Giroud is OK. We have no doubts. | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
Payet then is it in. Giroud is in there. France with a fierce. Brave | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
header, this. This is all about Giroud. Great Pavilion from Payet. | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
-- great ball in from Payet. Brilliant delivery. Purposeful | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
centre forward on the end of it. The biggest scoreline of the competition | :02:35. | :02:35. | |
so far. Well, this is tailor-made for him. | :02:36. | :02:55. | |
So good attacking the ball. Much maligned in some quarters, Giroud, | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
but look at that, no doubt whatsoever. He scrawled a similar | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
goal against Romania in the first game of the competition where the | :03:04. | :03:05. | |
goalkeeper for Romania was all over the place again, just like the | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Icelandic goalkeeper. He is much maligned but he has 34 goals for | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
club and country this season. He has ten in 11 games for France. That is | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
in recent months. He is becoming the prodigal son. They booed him on the | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
opening night. They are giving him a standing ovation now. Those are not | :03:29. | :03:41. | |
booze you are hearing, they are Girouds. He is on a tournament | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
yellow, so a sensible move by the manager. I'm comes gig knack. -- on | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
the comes Gignac. Gudmundsson tried a shot. | :03:52. | :04:05. | |
Sigthorsson. Saevarsson. It comes Aron Gunnarsson. The man from | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
Cardiff City. Also, Matuidi got caught and he's just gone down now. | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
He didn't get up straightaway. I think he got a bit of a knock. 5-1. | :04:21. | :04:28. | |
They won't want to take any risks with Matuidi, that's for sure. He's | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
not moving too well. Gunnarsson with the throw. Oh, that | :04:32. | :04:42. | |
is hooked over the bar. The substitute was there, Finnbogason. | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
There really is an end product from these throw ins. There seriously is. | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
Oh, yeah. He got a kick. Accidental, it must be said. And he didn't make | :04:53. | :05:07. | |
a massive deal of it as well. Evra with the header. Gunnarsson. Blocked | :05:08. | :05:16. | |
by Matuidi. Gunnarsson. Gudmundsson. Saevarsson. Finnbogason. Who is in | :05:17. | :05:28. | |
there? Matuidi. He gets through so much work for | :05:29. | :05:40. | |
club and country. PSG they talk about Zlatan but Matuidi is the man | :05:41. | :05:50. | |
who glues it altogether. Payet. Gunnarsson. Gudmundsson. Back to the | :05:51. | :06:05. | |
captain. Saevarsson. Cauna ball. -- A Cauna ball. Threatening a bit, | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
wasn't it? He has not tweaked something, has | :06:10. | :06:25. | |
he? Diving forward. Maybe just wanted some sympathy for a rank, bad | :06:26. | :06:33. | |
header. Their first corner of the game. Gudmundsson will take it. | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
Brilliant save, Lloris. Astounding goalkeeping. And an astounding save. | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
Well, the Germans will be watching this with interest. Free header yet | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
again. It is an outstanding save by Lloris, but the number of times the | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
ball has come in the box and caused all sorts of problems. They look for | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
Ingason. Lloris got there again, but only just. Finnbogason. It is a | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
throw, but it was a terrific effort on goal by the substitute | :07:07. | :07:07. | |
centre-half, initially. Oh, that hit a hand. It came off his | :07:08. | :07:38. | |
foot though, didn't it? They are breaking away and with pace. Gignac. | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
Sissoko calling for it on the far side. He was never ever going to | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
pass, Gignac. He had just got his head down. He was always going to | :07:51. | :07:51. | |
shoot. Rules spirited, Iceland. 5-1 down | :07:52. | :08:03. | |
and still going for it. Here is Payet. Poor ball. I was watching | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
France, defensively, and when the ball came out from the throwing | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
before they did not push up, they all sat in there and they invite all | :08:17. | :08:17. | |
sorts of trouble. Finnbogason, little touch on for | :08:18. | :08:35. | |
Gudmundsson. Here is Griezmann. He's had a terrific night. Sissoko with | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
power. Opening the gates. You have to admire their work ethic, | :08:43. | :09:25. | |
Iceland, it's fabulous. The rhythmic chances now from the French | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
supporters behind the Icelandic goal. -- the rhythmic chanting. | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
Skulason. That's a good break. And a foul by Gudmundsson. He is not | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
happy. Handball or not handball? No. It | :09:39. | :10:00. | |
might as well bin basketball, he's saying, but I think is exaggerated. | :10:01. | :10:08. | |
-- as well have been basketball. Decent playing career in Iceland. He | :10:09. | :10:19. | |
played for 20 odd years. Bjarnason. Gylfi Sigurdsson. Finnbogason. | :10:20. | :10:31. | |
Koscielny was back there. Griezmann was foul. -- fouled. Well, the | :10:32. | :10:40. | |
French might be winning 5-1, but there are some whispers about them | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
defensively. They are finding it a little bit harder. | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
All the flair in the world will not beat Germany if you can't defend. | :10:50. | :11:04. | |
Gudmundsson. Finnbogason, but it didn't come to him. Payet. Sissoko. | :11:05. | :11:16. | |
Matuidi will attack that in the air. Gignac. | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
For a striker, it's as though he wasn't expecting the ball to come to | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
him in the box. You're going to tell me now he plays in Mexico and he | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
scored 83 goals in 17 games. He plays in Mexico and has scored 32 in | :11:34. | :11:38. | |
49 games. Now at the midway mark in the second | :11:39. | :11:58. | |
half. Gunnarsson. Saevarsson. Arnason. Ever industrious. | :11:59. | :12:07. | |
Think it should have been a Cauna. -- a corner. | :12:08. | :12:35. | |
The other thing about Iceland, rightly or wrongly, they still keep | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
two players up. They have a foul here. I think the French are about | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
to make a change shortly. I don't know who. Gunnarsson was foul there. | :12:49. | :12:56. | |
-- Bjarnason. France making a breakaway. Here's an side. Still | :12:57. | :13:33. | |
going, Kelly put it back? -- can heave. He did think about shooting | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
and Dimitri Payet had a look and tried to go past the defender to | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
make the chance for someone else. The rain is lashing down again. It | :13:47. | :13:54. | |
is slippy and a bit stumble E. Off the goalkeeper's leg. Third French | :13:55. | :14:07. | |
corner of the night. Samuel Umtiti at the back. Dimitri Payet. Ingason. | :14:08. | :14:15. | |
Finnbogason completes the clearance. The question for France, Kante will | :14:16. | :14:48. | |
be back for the Germany game, where will they want to play Paul Pogba | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
and Blaise Matuidi. They might play them in a tight three but then what | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
do you do with Griezmann. You want him in a central area. He says he | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
wants to play in the number then roll and I think he has earned the | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
right to do so. Laurent Koscielny being protected. He is on a yellow | :15:14. | :15:26. | |
card, just like Giroud. He will be replaced by Eliaquim Mangala. | :15:27. | :15:57. | |
It will be interesting now, to see how the centre-backs cope. | :15:58. | :16:10. | |
The other thing as well, I think they should take Griezmann off. 5-1 | :16:11. | :16:23. | |
up, they can afford to make the change, Finnbogason. He is the top | :16:24. | :16:32. | |
goal-scorer. Andre-Pierre Gignac. Plenty of white shirts back now. A | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
bit sluggish getting forward in support, Blaise Matuidi. Paul Pogba | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
is there. First touch of the tournament for | :16:43. | :17:03. | |
Eliaquim Mangala. Fouled by good person. He is laughing -- 39-macro. | :17:04. | :17:23. | |
It is funny. --, sand. -- Aron Gunnarsson. Blaise Matuidi. Bacary | :17:24. | :17:37. | |
Sagna. Three outfield players have not made an appearance in the | :17:38. | :17:46. | |
competition for France, including Digne and Morgan Schneiderlin. It | :17:47. | :17:57. | |
will be interesting to see if Morgan Schneiderlin will be used at | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
Manchester United this year. Blaise Matuidi, that is a tired ball. | :18:01. | :18:11. | |
Samuel Umtiti. He hit him with his right hand! | :18:12. | :18:32. | |
A good night for David Dein and his coaching team. -- 29-macro. -- | :18:33. | :18:49. | |
Didier Deschamps. Aron Gunnarsson. Another throw in | :18:50. | :19:23. | |
torpedo. Sigurdsson in there as well. He comes close for the ball. | :19:24. | :19:40. | |
Saevarsson. Paul Pogba shields it out. | :19:41. | :19:50. | |
Paul Pogba has some potential. He is a long way from being the finished | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
article but he has masses of potential. The French public have | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
their reservations about the team, they think they are immature. They | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
want to idolise them, but they are reserved at the moment. Skulason. | :20:10. | :20:21. | |
Caught by Antoine Griezmann. He got away with that. I thought he nicked | :20:22. | :20:29. | |
it from Antoine Griezmann. Blaise Matuidi with the header. Here is | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
Paul Pogba. Handball. A little warning for Finnbogason. | :20:33. | :20:52. | |
That was unnecessary, Paul Pogba was coming out with the ball. | :20:53. | :21:08. | |
Moussa Sissoko. Antoine Griezmann. Has the freedom of Paris. Opening up | :21:09. | :21:30. | |
the gap to Dimitri Payet. Bjarnason clears. Finnbogason. Has possession. | :21:31. | :21:39. | |
No communication there, lacked a bit of awareness, I think. Was not | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
expecting to get challenged on a football pitch! | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
Patrice Evra, caught in possession. 79-macro. Bjarnason. Decent ball in | :21:51. | :22:24. | |
the middle. -- Sigthorsson. Good play by Bacary Sagna. Sigurdsson | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
looking for the return. A stretch. Moussa Sissoko. Gave it away. | :22:30. | :22:38. | |
Skulason. Sigurdsson. Great challenge. Mangala. Really quickly. | :22:39. | :22:55. | |
Kingsley Coman is going to come on for France any moment. | :22:56. | :23:08. | |
Andre-Pierre Gignac, bundled over. What do you reckon? Antoine | :23:09. | :23:20. | |
Griezmann? Dimitri Payet is going to come off. | :23:21. | :23:42. | |
One of the French players of the tournament, one of the players of | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
the tournament, replaced by Kingsley Coman who picked up a bit of a knock | :23:50. | :23:57. | |
against the Republic of Ireland. He has got bags of pace. Patrice Evra. | :23:58. | :24:15. | |
Kingsley Coman came on against Ireland as a substitute and was | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
substituted with an ankle injury. Blaise Matuidi. | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
Paul Pogba. I think there is no doubt that the semifinal for France | :24:29. | :24:49. | |
against Germany will ask the biggest questions of this team. They set | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
themselves a target of a last four place. And that target will be | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
achieved and then the pressure will ease away from them. | :25:02. | :25:12. | |
Here is Patrice Evra. Gudjohnsen is coming on for Iceland. I would | :25:13. | :25:25. | |
imagine this is a farewell at the age of 37, their record goal-scorer. | :25:26. | :25:34. | |
Champions League winner with Barcelona and won a couple of titles | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
with Chelsea, has had a great career. Paul Pogba. Blaise Matuidi, | :25:41. | :25:52. | |
just over eight minutes to go. Kingsley Coman, goes to return. The | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
touch was heavy. Needs support. Still got the cross in. Aron | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
Gunnarsson crosses it out. He is looking for at Sigthorsson who | :26:05. | :26:24. | |
is fouled by Mangala. On for his ADA cap for Iceland and very probably | :26:25. | :26:33. | |
his last, Gudjohnsen. He replaces Sigthorsson who has done well in the | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
last two games and has always been a willing battler. Look at the | :26:40. | :26:49. | |
reaction. He gets the armband. And he gets on the ball. He brings in | :26:50. | :27:02. | |
Sigurdsson. Then comes the cross and they have got another one. Spirited | :27:03. | :27:21. | |
to be a hand. Bjarnason. -- spirited to the end. Very simple as well. | :27:22. | :27:30. | |
Kept his eye on the ball, it looked like it would not reach, really good | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
finish, yet again for the French, and another question mark about | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
their defensive qualities or lack of. Germany are watching. They will | :27:39. | :27:46. | |
need better defending than that to say in the competition. France look | :27:47. | :27:49. | |
for Kingsley Coman from the restart. It is funny, if you have said before | :27:50. | :28:05. | |
the start of this game that Iceland would score twice tonight, they | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
would have carried you away in a white van! Patrice Evra with the | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
throw. Blaise Matuidi. Good touch from Andre-Pierre Gignac, | :28:14. | :28:35. | |
Antoine Griezmann, Moussa Sissoko is on the edge of the box, Kingsley | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
Coman, head down, wasted opportunity. It was. | :28:41. | :29:01. | |
Five minutes to go. Iceland have scored four goals against England | :29:02. | :29:14. | |
and France in their last two games. What an adventure it has been for | :29:15. | :29:16. | |
them. Here is Antoine Griezmann. Moussa | :29:17. | :29:50. | |
Sissoko. Dear oh dear. He scalped it, completely. Aron Gunnarsson. | :29:51. | :30:09. | |
He still lost his footing, it was cleared away, just by Mangala. Good | :30:10. | :30:21. | |
play in the end, but the decision-making of Hugo Lloris is in | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
question. Should he have come, should he have stayed? He should | :30:28. | :30:36. | |
have stayed! The Iceland corner, can they get a third? Because every time | :30:37. | :30:41. | |
it goes into that box, the French defence is unconvincing and they | :30:42. | :30:43. | |
have another corner. Iceland now have more corners in the | :30:44. | :31:01. | |
game and France! He takes it, just did enough there, did Mangala to | :31:02. | :31:11. | |
stop Ingason. I am sure there was a hint of a foul. | :31:12. | :31:20. | |
They would have taken their foot off the pedal in the second half at 5-1 | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
up. I think they know there are doubts | :31:26. | :31:44. | |
about them defensively. Smiling there, but they know there is harder | :31:45. | :31:50. | |
work to be done to beat Germany. You can see him thinking, flipping heck! | :31:51. | :31:57. | |
Coverage more ground, had more of the ball, more attempts on goal and | :31:58. | :32:11. | |
more goals, but not utterly convincing. | :32:12. | :32:21. | |
Paul Pogba. Patrice Evra. Sloppy. Paul Pogba was fouled. | :32:22. | :32:43. | |
He did not make a great deal of it, in fairness to him. | :32:44. | :33:01. | |
Into the last minute. Sigurdsson. Bjarnason. | :33:02. | :33:13. | |
Bjarnason, there is a suspicion there that he was pushed. Blaise | :33:14. | :33:35. | |
Matuidi. Patrice Evra forward to Kingsley Coman. Antoine Griezmann. | :33:36. | :33:42. | |
He thinks about bringing in Moussa Sissoko and does not and the chances | :33:43. | :33:48. | |
gone. I think he was waiting for Moussa Sissoko to make some kind of | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
threatening runs, he looked at him as if to say, what are you going to | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
do with it? Two minutes of stoppage time at Stade de France. Great | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
performance by Antoine Griezmann. Gudjohnsen. Finnbogason. Sandro. -- | :34:02. | :34:11. | |
Skulason. Given away. Antoine Griezmann, | :34:12. | :34:36. | |
Andre-Pierre Gignac. Ingason. Did not have the greatest of touches | :34:37. | :34:38. | |
there, Andre-Pierre Gignac. And still they work. And still they | :34:39. | :34:54. | |
forage. Wonderful advert for what hard work, dedication, team spirit, | :34:55. | :35:08. | |
shape can achieve. And belief. Sigurdsson. Bjarnason. Loses out. | :35:09. | :35:16. | |
They are weary. Here is Blaise Matuidi. | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
Half a minute left of stoppage time, brilliant switch, Andre-Pierre | :35:23. | :35:29. | |
Gignac. One of the best passers of the night. That the -- Kingsley | :35:30. | :35:36. | |
Coman, Antoine Griezmann, blocked. A ball only. This will be the end of | :35:37. | :35:38. | |
it. For Iceland, the bold, enticing | :35:39. | :36:07. | |
adventure is over. France go on to meet Germany in the semi-finals of | :36:08. | :36:17. | |
Euro 16. Antoine Griezmann among the scorers, two for Olivier Giroud, but | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
Sigurdsson and Bjarnason scored for Iceland, spirited as ever, but for | :36:23. | :36:27. | |
them, the adventure comes to an end and France, the hosts, in the last | :36:28. | :36:29. | |
four. France five, Iceland two. | :36:30. | :36:36. |