England - France: World Cup in Qatar 2022, live | Mbappé and Kane lead their teams in the star confrontation of the quarterfinals

England and France meet tonight (20.00, by World Goal) in the quarterfinals of the World Cup in Qatar.

Two of the main contenders for the title meet for the last place in the semi-finals, where the winner will face Morocco, who defeated Portugal this afternoon.

The defending champions made it through the group stage with no trouble, even though they lost the last match against Tunisia, and they also had no trouble beating Poland in the round of 16.

His main argument is his star, Kylian Mbappé, the top scorer in the World Cup with five goals, who has declared that his obsession is to lift the World Cup again.

The striker is at the tip of the attack along with Giroud and Dembélé.

If France bases its game on its star,

England works like a gear in which all the pieces are equally important.

Bellingham, due to his youth (19 years old), is the player who is standing out the most in the Southgate team, who arrives unbeaten in the duel after finishing first in the group stage and defeating Senegal in the round of 16.

The Three Lions come out with the same eleven with which they defeated the Africans, with Kane in the lead along with Foden and Saka.

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The arbitration team

Main Referee:

 Wilton Sampaio (Brazil)

First Assistant:

 Bruno Boschilia (Brazil)

Second Assistant:

 Bruno Pires (Brazil)

Fourth official:

 Mohammed Abdulla Mohammed (United Arab Emirates)

VAR referee: 

Nicolás Gallo (Colombia)

VAR assistant:

 Juan Martínez (Spain)

Offside VAR:

 Neuza Back (Brazil)

Support VAR:

 Alejandro Hernández (Spain)

ACT.10 DEC 2022 - 18:53

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Mbappé wants to be more than Pelé

Diego Torres

"There are no reasons for stress, only for joy and pleasure," said Didier Deschamps.

The French coach showed his toothy smile when asked yesterday if he thought Kylian Mbappé would succumb to the trap that England would set for him in the World Cup quarterfinal duel, today in Jor (20:00, World Goal).

"Kylian will always be Kylian, capable of being decisive at any time," warned the coach, as sure as someone who keeps a winning card.

After winning the World Cup in Russia at the age of 19, Mbappé is preparing to retain the title in Qatar at the age of 23. "It's my obsession," says the PSG striker.

His goal is unprecedented.

He wants to surpass Pelé, the only player who has been able to be decisive in a World Cup with less than 20 years and to retain the title in its successive edition.

The Brazilian myth lifted the title in 1958 and repeated it in 1962. Mbappé wants to surpass him in the quantitative dimension: Pelé was not the leader of Brazil in either of the two tournaments.

He was only able to complete two matches in 1962, before injury shifted the brunt of the attack to teammate Garrincha.

ACT.10 DEC 2022 - 18:46

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A colossal Mbappé leads France to the World Cup quarterfinals

Jose Samano

For Qatar the stars are encouraged.

Those of PSG, at least.

The phenomenal Messi against Australia was answered by a colossal Mbappé, messenger, scorer and whatever you want against Poland.

First, an assist from Platini or Zidane for Giroud's 1-0.

Second, a thunderous hit that burst the ball and creaked the net of Szczesny, the Polish goalkeeper.

Third another barbarity, a huge blow that burned the rival goal.

Today is this footballer from the afterlife.

Yesterday is Lewandowski, who with the clock at zero missed his second penalty of the tournament.

Lloris, a French goalkeeper, moved and the Pole retired from the World Cups with a final shot.

Mbappé, for everything, the hanger of France, no matter how much he has some nonsense.

Soccer is plenty.

In the race and in neutral.

Poland, much improved, held the type until Mbappé played the violin in the first goal and took out the bazooka in the second and third.

He already has five goals - one more than in Russia 2018 - and two assists - one more than in his previous successful World Cup.

ACT.10 DEC 2022 - 18:38

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England, from choreography to talent

David Alvarez

The growth of this England that is excited in Qatar, and that today is on its way to the semifinals against France, the last world champion, can be traced in the stories that its coach, Gareth Southgate, has used along the way. .

Kalvin Phillips recounted on Thursday what they did in the first training camp after losing the Eurocup final against Italy at Wembley: "We didn't review that game," he said.

"We talked about all the teams that had won a big tournament in the last 10 years, how good their defense was and how clinical they had been in the other area."

In Qatar, England is the team that has scored the most: 12 goals in four games, as many as in the seven they played four years ago in the World Cup in Russia.

And he has received two.

Of the teams that reached the quarterfinals, only Brazil and Morocco received less (one).

Phillips is convinced of the effect of that talk: "It seems that we have assimilated that and that we are learning to be a better team, that attacks more and is very solid defensively."

ACT.10 DEC 2022 - 18:31

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Bellingham, the footballer who invented playing at 22

David Alvarez

The back of Jude Bellingham's shirt deciphers part of the enigma of one of the world's brightest young footballers, a sweeping appearance in England, on the radar of greats like Real Madrid and Liverpool for next summer.

Number 22 sums up his complex and versatile role on the pitch.

As a child, in the Birmingham youth academy, he thought he could be a good 10, but one of his coaches, Mike Dodds, already sensed that there was much more to that boy.

He explained that he could be a 22: "You can be a 4, an 8 and a 10. Someone who can do it all."

4+8+10=22.

Bellingham has been displaying that rare multi-functionality of a Swiss army knife for two years now in Europe with Borussia Dortmund, but with England in Qatar he has taken an extraordinary leap, and tomorrow France awaits him in the quarterfinals (22.00, World Goal).

ACT.10 DEC 2022 - 18:25

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England has music and is already in the quarterfinals of Qatar

David Alvarez

England is taking shape as the World Cup progresses.

They got through the mirage of 6-2 against Iran, the 0-0 jam against the USA and escaped after a small transient mess against Wales with a 0-3 draw, to reunite against Senegal everything they have picked up along the way.

She found herself stuck, she saw herself threatened, but she always knew which way to go, until she solved the tie with authority and went to the quarterfinals against the France of the supersonic Mbappé with a confident lead in which Harry Kane finally scored.

ACT.10 DEC 2022 - 18:20

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Henderson and Foden, from the game

Southgate has been more interventionist during the tournament, circling a type lineup.

Against France he puts out of the game two players who did not start the tournament as starters.

One is Foden, who is the spark, the player who moves between the lines and gives passes that others dream of.

And behind him will be Henderson, who already scored in the last duel and who is one of the few veterans of the team, a footballer who pauses the game like Rice.

Dynamite is kept on the bench like Rashford, Sterling and Grealish.

England

• goalie

• 1Jordan Pickford

• defenses

• 6Harry Maguire

• 5John Stones

• 3Shaw

• 2Walker

• midfielders

• 4Declan Rice

• 22 Jude Bellingham

• 8Henderson

• forwards

• 20foden

• 9Kane

• 17Bukayo Saka

• dock

• IntGareth Southgates

• 15Eric Dier

• 19Mason Mount

• 14Kalvin Phillips

• 24Callum Wilson

• 7Grealish

• 18Trent Alexander-Arnold

• 26 Conor Gallagher

• 23Aaron Ramsdale

• 13Nick Pope

• 25James Maddison

• 16Coady

• 12Trippier

• 11Rashford

• 10Sterling

ACT.10 DEC 2022 - 18:11

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Deschamps takes out his favorite eleven

Since the tournament began, Deschamps has polished his eleven and, after finding Koundé as a right-back and putting Theo on the left after Lucas's injury, he no longer has any doubts.

Thus, the French coach puts his favorite eleven to face England.

France

• goalie

• 1Lloris

• defenses

• 5Koundé

• 4Varane

• 22Theo Hernandez

• 18 Dayotchanculle Upamecano

• midfielders

• 7Griezmann

• 10Kylian Mbappe

• 8Aurelien Tchouameni

• 11Ousmane Dembele

• 14Rabiot

• forwards

• 9Giroud

• dock

• IntDidier Deschampss

• 6Matteo Guendouzi

• 2Benjamin Pavard

• 25Camavinga

• 24Ibrahima Konate

• 20Kingsley Eat

• 17William Saliba

• 26Marcus Thuram

• 12Randal Kolo Muani

• 15Veretout

• 13Youssouf Fofana

• 3Axel Disasi

• 16Mandanda

• 23Areola

ACT.10 DEC 2022 - 18:02

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Rashford wants to go back to penalties

David Alvarez

The World Cup has entered extra-time territory, and in England's camp at Al Wakrah, south of Doha, there is a footballer who awaits them expectantly, and with the rare hope that one will end up leading to penalties.

Marcus Rashford (Manchester, 25 years old) does not see the tiebreakers as torture, or as a lottery, but as an opportunity for redemption: "They are great moments with which I have always been comfortable," he has said these days.

"Hopefully we have another penalty in the tournament.

I'm waiting for it".

Rashford, England's top scorer in Qatar with three goals, has a score to settle with the tiebreakers.

In the final of the last European Championship he was one of the three Englishmen who missed his shot in the Wembley final.

All three suffered waves of racist attacks on social media.

For the Manchester United striker, that storm piled on top of two others in which he was already immersed.

ACT.10 DEC 2022 - 17:52

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A rivalry with history

There are 31 occasions on which both teams have seen each other's faces.

The English won 17 times, while the

won nine.

The remaining 5 matches ended in a draw.

Despite the numerous meetings between the two, they have only met twice in the World Cups and on both occasions within the group stages (in 1966 and 1982).

The two games were resolved with the victory of the English.

ACT.10 DEC 2022 - 17:43

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A world Mbappé

Nine goals in two World Cups, five in this edition, which marks him as Qatar's top scorer, pursued by Messi (4).

With an average of 0.82 goals per duel (nine in 11 games), he accumulates the same nets as Leo in his World Cup appearances and one more than Cristiano Ronaldo.

In addition, he was already the youngest player to score in a final (2018), also the youngest Frenchman to play and score.

ACT.10 DEC 2022 - 17:34

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Football to the approach of England

England is the highest scoring team in the tournament.

Although Pickford doesn't offer many guarantees under the sticks, center backs Maguire and Stones are performing much better than expected.

Walker and Trippier occupy the wings, wingers with an offensive vocation.

In the middle, Rice dominates all registers, perhaps the only one capable of putting a pause in a football attack because England has plenty of bite with a scary list of attackers: Saka, Rashford, Grealish, Sterling, Foden and Kane.

Almost nothing...

ACT.10 DEC 2022 - 17:22

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Mbappe and 10 others

France tries to repeat the success after winning the previous tournament, in Russia 2018. With Lloris under the sticks and with Upamecano and Varane at the back, they find the most reliable wingers in Theo and Koundé.

In the middle, Tchoumanéni occupies all the spaces and from there the game catapults and accelerates dizzyingly, because the Gauls have plenty of quality.

Especially the one that Griezmann exudes with his game at the first touch, croupier of the offensives, a footballer who with the bleu jacket always shows the best version of him.

Later, Dembélé runs and dribbles to the right while Mbappé in a state of grace dismounts all his rivals to the left, confirming that he sits at the table of the best ballplayers.

And above is Giroud, the one who hunts the centers, the point and end of the team.

Many carats of difficult arrest.

ACT.10 DEC 2022 - 17:12

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Welcome!

Hello everyone!

A pleasure to be with you to tell you about the match between France and England in the quarterfinals of the World Cup in Qatar.

A great match between two teams that have proven to aspire to the scepter, teams with a lot of punch and physique, capable of mixing touch with transitions, also solid in defense.

The winner of this match will face Morocco -which has just eliminated Portugal- in the semifinals.

Let's go there!

ACT.10 DEC 2022 - 17:03

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