and let s kick off in qatar, where france has shattered morocco s hopes of becoming the first african and arab nation to reach the world cup finals. they put up quite a fight, dominated possession, but a clinical france won 2 0. the defending champions will now meet argentina in the final this sunday. it s quite simply a salivating prospect for fans of football. both teams are hoping for their third world cup trophy. let s start our coverage with olly foster in doha. what a final it should be on sunday between the reigning champions france, and lionel messi s argentina. the french winning 2 0 here in the second of semi finals at the al bayt stadium against morocco. the moroccans have been the story of the world cup but it s the end of the road for them. the french took the lead very early on. theo hernandez with a scissor kick from a very tight angle
reputations of european grades from belgian to spain to portugal. but this was just one european great too many for them. france took a very early lead through fernandez s scrappy goal. killian mbappe had a shot deflected to him. they saw anton griezmann, and then this scissor kick for pharaoh fernandez, the fullback putting it away. it was 1-0 the fullback putting it away. it was 1 0 for a long time. it was only towards the last ten minutes of the game that the substitute randall milani, who ijust come out the bench, more brilliant work from mbappe. he beat two or three defenders. he weaved his way into the box, and that was a shot, but it deflected into the path of the whining, and it was 2 02 the
with a scissor kick from a very tight angle after a killing mbappe shot a deflected and fell to him kindly. but morocco were never really out of this match. jawad el yarmouk had an overhead kick that hit the base of a post. france were always in a game here. they knew they couldn t be complacent. they d seen morocco s progress throughout this tournament, finishing top of their group ahead of croatia and belgium, beating spain, beating the portuguese, leaving cristiano ronaldo in tears. so france were on their guard against morocco and it wasn t until late on that they scored their second goal inside the last ten minutes. the substitute with a pretty much his first touch of the game, he benefited from another mazy bit of work from kylian mbappe and it was his deflected shot that fell to him at the far post. randal kolo mounie with his first
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