intensity, and also to have fresh legs i think does a lot. legs i think does a lot. spain, portugal. legs i think does a lot. spain, portugal, belgium, legs i think does a lot. spain, portugal, belgium, the - legs i think does a lot. spain, | portugal, belgium, the french legs i think does a lot. spain, - portugal, belgium, the french may be one step too far for them? we portugal, belgium, the french may be one step too far for them? one step too far for them? we will find out tonight. one step too far for them? we will find out tonight. the one step too far for them? we will find out tonight. the french - one step too far for them? we will find out tonight. the french team | one step too far for them? we will| find out tonight. the french team - find out tonight. the french team let s see if we can keep it for a few more days, but it ll be a big, big game, very difficult for the french team. i want to see if they ll be able to manage the intensity that they ve put into eve
camp. konate in for upamecano, youssouf fofana in for rabiot lloris kounde. that fearsome front for floating around, marauding behind olivier giroud. a couple of changes for morocco. nayef aguerd returns from a hamstring strain. he missed the portugal win. we think they will play with a back three and some flying wing backs, coming up against mbappe in that right hand side. the french head coach said that they weren t just preparing for the game, but the atmosphere.
and the cinderella fairy tale is just the top of the world for us, it means absolutely everything. if you weren t waving means absolutely everything. if you weren t waving the means absolutely everything. if you weren t waving the tricolor, - means absolutely everything. if you weren t waving the tricolor, you - weren t waving the tricolor, you would be a moroccan fan as well? there s narratives everywhere, like with the there s narratives everywhere, like with the head coach being born in paris. with the head coach being born in paris, you ve got the player whose father paris, you ve got the player whose father is paris, you ve got the player whose father is moroccan, and for him to play on father is moroccan, and for him to play on the father is moroccan, and for him to play on the french bench and face the country play on the french bench and face the country of his dad would be speciat the country of his dad would be special. you ve got players who are best friends
ground as they have been for the last few weeks, leaving behind them some broken reputations, that s for sure belgium, spain, and portugal will testify for that. those are the moroccans arriving for the match of their lives, and they ve had already if few here in qatar. and what about the french? a relatively trouble free path to the semi finals, beating australia and denmark. they made a raft of changes and were beaten by tunisia, but it didn t stop them topping their group, and then beating the poles in the last 16 before knocking out england, we ve talked about that quite enough. we ll be talking about kylian mbappe in just a we ll be talking about kylian mbappe injust a moment, he s leading the race along with lionel messi for the golden boot as they look to make it back to back world cup finals. france have had to make a couple of changes due to sicknesses and the