2am: Morocco d Portugal 1-0
6am: France d England 2-1
Harry Kane was left “gutted” on Saturday after lacking a vital penalty in England’s 2-1 World Cup quarter-final defeat to France.
England skipper Kane blazed an 84th minute spot-kick over the bar that may have levelled the rating at 2-2 on the Al Bayt Stadium.
It was one other merciless chapter in England’s decades-long psychodrama revolving round main tournaments and penalty heartaches.
Kane had earlier made no mistake with one other penalty on 54 minutes that noticed him equal Wayne Rooney’s England goalscoring tally of 53 targets.
“As the captain, I’ll take that on the chin and that responsibility, missing the penalty, so it’s hard,” Kane stated afterwards.
“Really tough night to take. I’m gutted, the team are gutted. We had the belief that we could achieve something special at this World Cup, but it came down to small details.
“On the night we had the better chances, the better spells in the game, but it comes down to the execution.” Kane, 29, is without doubt one of the most dependable penalty-takers in world soccer, changing 58 spotkicks all through his profession with solely 11 misses.
The England captain stated he had felt assured as he lined up his second penalty of the night time towards France goalkeeper and Tottenham team-mate Hugo Lloris.
“I’m someone who, whenever I prepare, prepare for one penalty in the game, two penalties, so I can’t fault my preparation or detail,” Kane stated.
“In the lead-up I felt as confident as I did on the first as I did on the second. It purely comes down to execution. I’ll take that on the chin.
“Of course it hurts now and it’ll hurt for probably a long time, but that’s part of being captain and a leader in the team, you have to take responsibility.” Kane had seemed inconsolable on the closing whistle, hunched on the turf as team-mates rallied to his help.
England supervisor Gareth Southgate sprang to Kane’s defence.
“There’s nobody I would have rather had in that situation and if we had one tomorrow I’d feel exactly the same way,” Southgate stated.
“For me he’s been a fantastic leader of this group.
“He’s the best but the best are still 85 percent (success rate) so even the best are going to miss at times so that’s football.
“It’s cruel for him because he will feel disappointed in himself but he shouldn’t because it’s 100 minutes of football and there’s a lot of things that can happen in terms of winning a game.”
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PEPE AND FERNANDES BLAST ARGENTINE REFEREE AFTER PORTUGAL EXIT
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Portugal gamers Pepe and Bruno Fernandes lashed out on the Argentine referee answerable for their 1-0 World Cup quarter-final defeat by Morocco on Saturday, claiming his nationality impacted the sport.
Argentina progressed to the final 4 on Friday by beating the Netherlands and may they attain the ultimate, may play towards Morocco in the event that they win their semi-final towards England or France.
The match referee Facundo Tello, his two assistants and the video assistant referee had been all from Argentina.
“It’s unacceptable for an Argentine referee to referee our game,” Pepe stated on Portuguese tv.
“After what happened yesterday, with (Lionel) Messi talking, all of Argentina talking, and the referee comes here.
“What did we play in the second half? The goalkeeper dropped to the ground. There were only eight minutes of stoppage time. We worked hard and the referee (only added on) eight minutes.” Messi had complained concerning the refereeing of Argentina’s conflict with the Dutch, saying an excessive amount of time had been added on.
Portugal’s principal grievance was that too little time had been added of their conflict with Morocco they usually had been vital of supposed time-wasting by the North African aspect within the second half.
Bruno Fernandes complained that much more harm time ought to have been added, and that referees from groups nonetheless concerned within the match shouldn’t be appointed to matches.
– ‘Knew what to expect’ –
“We already know how it works… before the game we already knew what we were in for, and what kind of referee we would find,” stated Fernandes.
“Unfortunately, in these competitions, where there are no Portuguese referees, there are referees from teams that are still in the competition.
“It seems strange to me, to say the least, but I don’t want to get into that, because that’s not the only reason we lost.
“The referee gave two minutes of injury time in the first half and eight in the second. In this second half, the game was stopped, at minimum, for between 15 and 20 minutes.” Fernandes added: “We knew that we would play against much more than just Morocco.” The midfielder was left livid within the first half after not being awarded a penalty when he tumbled underneath a Moroccan participant’s problem from behind.
“The (officials) are not used to this type of game and this tempo,” added Fernandes.
“In the first half there is a clear penalty on me, without any doubt, because I’m by myself and never in my life let myself fall, when I was alone with the goalkeeper and could shoot on goal. It’s as simple as that.” However, his coach Fernando Santos didn’t suppose the officers made a giant distinction in his crew’s elimination.
“I don’t think so, I think he could have called for a foul on one or two (more) occasions but generally speaking I don’t think so,” stated Santos.
“I think we could have done more and we didn’t do so. I don’t think we should blame the referee, it doesn’t make sense.” The coach, who has a contract till after Euro 2024, stated he would talk about his future within the days to come back with the Portuguese soccer federation.
Manchester City’s Ruben Dias believes the crew nonetheless has loads of potential as they ponder the long run with gamers comparable to Goncalo Ramos and Rafael Leao.
“Above all, it is important at this moment, despite the difficult of digesting (the defeat) to accumulate more experience,” stated Dias.
“We have a very young generation with a lot of quality and we have to have faith that nothing is lost.”
KANE WILL BOUNCE BACK ‘STRONGER’ FROM PENALTY MISS – HENDERSON
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Jordan Henderson stated England captain Harry Kane will bounce again from the heartbreak of lacking a late penalty as Gareth Southgate’s aspect exited the World Cup with a 2-1 defeat to France.
Kane had equalled Wayne Rooney’s all-time report of 53 targets for England by levelling the quarter-final in Qatar at 1-1 together with his first penalty of the night time.
But after Olivier Giroud put France again in entrance, the Tottenham striker blazed over when handed a second likelihood up towards his membership teammate Hugo Lloris.
“We know how many penalties Harry has scored for us, he scored the first one, how many goals he’s contributed to even get us here,” Henderson advised ITV.
“He’ll be stronger for it in the long run I’m sure.
“He’s a world class striker, our captain and we wouldn’t be here without him.” The defeat extends England’s drought with out a main match victory which stretches again to 1966.
France will face Morocco within the semi-finals and with Brazil, Germany, Spain and Portugal already eradicated, Henderson conceded an enormous alternative at glory had slipped by way of England’s grasp.
“We felt really good, performances were really good. The focus and hunger was there,” added the Liverpool midfielder.
“Unfortunately it wasn’t our night. Give credit to France, who are a good team. I still felt it was there for us to win tonight.”
GIROUD TAKES FRANCE INTO WORLD CUP SEMIS AS KANE PENALTY MISS COSTS ENGLAND
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Olivier Giroud scored the winner and Harry Kane missed a late penalty as holders France beat England 2-1 in a tense World Cup quarter-final on Saturday.
Aurelien Tchouameni had swept France right into a first-half lead just for Kane to equalise from the spot 9 minutes into the second half.
England had been the higher aspect for lengthy stretches of the sport at Al Bayt Stadium however, nearly from nowhere, France went again in entrance when Giroud headed house with 11 minutes left.
Kane than blazed his second penalty of the sport over the bar as England’s wait to win a primary main worldwide trophy for the reason that 1966 World Cup goes on.
France although stay on target to turn into the primary aspect since Brazil 60 years in the past to efficiently defend the World Cup.
With Brazil having been eradicated on Friday and England handled right here within the desert north of Doha, France at the moment are certainly the favourites to retain their crown as they put together to face Morocco within the semi-finals.
This, remarkably, was the primary assembly of those two nice rivals in a serious match knockout sport, with Croatia’s victory in additional time stopping England from becoming a member of France within the closing 4 years in the past.
England had discovered their stride after a sluggish begin within the last-16 win over Senegal and it was no shock to see Southgate title an unchanged aspect, with Bukayo Saka and Phil Foden both aspect of Kane in assault.
That meant he resisted any temptation to revert to a again 5 in an try to counter the risk posed by Kylian Mbappe, the match’s high scorer with 5 targets.
There isn’t any scarcity of aim threats within the French aspect however few might have predicted that the opener would come from Tchouameni, the midfielder who’s simply 22 and had scored solely as soon as for his nation earlier than this sport.
There was a contact of controversy to the aim, because it got here from a France break which began with what seemed like a foul by Dayot Upamecano on Saka.
Brazilian referee Wilton Sampaio waved play on, and Mbappe reduce inside from the left earlier than Ousmane Dembele and Griezmann mixed to arrange Tchouameni to hit an excellent shot from 25 metres that curled away from Jordan Pickford and into the nook.
France had seemed the extra harmful crew earlier than that, however England grew into the competition after falling behind.
– Pressure tells –
Kane spun away from Upamecano within the field however was denied as his Tottenham teammate Hugo Lloris got here out to dive at his ft.
Another second of controversy adopted as England thought they need to have had a penalty when Kane was clearly fouled in a tangle of legs with Upamecano.
However, a VAR test dominated out a spot-kick with the officers judging that any infringement occurred outdoors the field.
Not to be discouraged, Kane pressured Lloris to tip a shot behind simply earlier than the half-hour mark and the France goalkeeper — profitable a nationwide report 143rd cap — was referred to as into motion once more simply after the restart to tip over a Jude Bellingham volley.
The strain ultimately advised when Saka was introduced down by Tchouameni within the space seven minutes into the second half and this time a spot-kick was given.
Kane stepped as much as beat Lloris and rating his 53rd aim to equal Wayne Rooney’s report England tally.
The holders might not have been rattled, however England had the higher hand, and Harry Maguire headed agonisingly broad from a free-kick.
France had created nothing within the second half, however then Giroud pressured a superb save from Pickford following a Dembele knockdown, and moments later they struck.
Griezmann whipped in an incredible cross from the left for Giroud to go in with the help of a spark off Maguire.
That was not sport over, as Theo Hernandez was penalised for a shove on substitute Mason Mount when the referee gave a spot-kick following a VAR assessment.
But this time Kane — together with his nation’s outright aim report in sight — blazed over, and England’s World Cup dream was over
8:00AM LAST GASP FOR THE THREE LIONS
We are into stoppage time and it’s actually determined occasions for the English. Can they repeat what the Dutch did yesterday and snatch additional time from nothing? They have a free kick on the sting of the world, principally precisely the identical spot because the Dutch did. Can they produce the identical end result? It’s Marcus Rashford for England… who fires it simply excessive of the netting. AND ITS ALL OVER. The champions are nonetheless alive.
7:45 PENALTY TO ENGLAND AGAIN – KANE MISSES
The referee has been summoned to the display to test for a doable penalty for England after Mason Mount was bundled over within the field by Hernandez. And the referee says sure it’s. Remarkable. The English are asking for Hernandez to be despatched off however its a yellow card. It’s Kane towards Lloris as soon as once more, as Kane seems to turn into England’s all time main goalscorer. BLASTED OVER. Incredible. He sends it flying into the stands and the French are given a lifeline. How enormous is that?
7:40AM THE WORLD CHAMPIONS HIT BACK (Giroud 77’) 2-1
The French, after being completely outplayed on this second half have taken again the lead with Olivier Giroud heading house a cross to present the world champions a 2-1 lead. The 36-year-old, who performed for each Arsenal and Chelsea comes up massive for his nation once more. England have despatched on Raheem Sterling in response as we now have a blockbuster closing 10 minutes inbound.
7:30AM KANE EQUALS ROONEY’S ALL-TIME ENGLAND GOALSCORING RECORD
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Harry Kane grew to become England’s joint all-time main goalscorer on Saturday, placing for the 53rd time towards France within the World Cup quarter-finals to affix Wayne Rooney on the high of the charts.
The captain, enjoying his eightieth worldwide, scored England’s equaliser early within the second half on the Al Bayt Stadium in Qatar to drag stage with former Manchester United ahead Rooney.
The Tottenham ahead scored his first senior worldwide aim simply seconds into his debut as a Wembley substitute towards Lithuania in March 2015.
The 29-year-old was named as Gareth Southgate’s skipper forward of the 2018 World Cup and led the crew to the semi-finals, bagging the Golden Boot with six targets in Russia.
He scored 4 targets eventually 12 months’s European Championship to assist England attain a primary main closing since 1966.
Kane, who’s closing in on Jimmy Greaves’s report as Tottenham’s report goalscorer, is medical with both foot and his head.
But lately he has additionally turn into a supplier, dropping again commonly to carry up play and switch supplier for each Spurs and England.
Kane was born in east London and joined the Spurs academy in 2009. He had a variety of mortgage spells as a younger participant as he tried to established himself earlier than his breakthrough season at Tottenham in 2014/15.
He has gained the Premier League Golden Boot thrice since then however has to this point didn’t win silverware for membership or nation, regardless of coming agonisingly shut.
As effectively because the near-misses for England, Kane was on the dropping aspect when Tottenham reached the Champions League closing for the primary time of their historical past in 2019, taking place 2-0 to Liverpool in Madrid.
7:25AM 30 MINUTES TO GO (AT LEAST)
England definitely have the ascendancy as the sport opens up a bit extra with France needing to reply. Both sides look very harmful on the counter nevertheless, with this titanic battle poised on a knifes edge. Will we see a repeat of Saturdays encounters with 120 minutes not being sufficient to separate them?
7:15AM PENALTY ENGLAND – KANE SCORES 1-1 54’
Bukayo Saka is purchased down within the field by the French goalscorer Tchouameni and the referee indicators penalty. Harry Kane, the England skipper faces off towards Tottenham teammate Hugo Lloris from the spot. He sends the French captain the fallacious manner and we’re stage. Kane now equals Wayne Rooney as the very best goalscorer for England. Just reward for an attacking mindset popping out of the half.
6:50AM FRANCE HEAD INTO THE HALF WITH SLIM LEAD
England definitely took management of the play after falling behind, nevertheless head into the sheds dealing with a 1-0 deficit and on the point of elimination. France gave the impression to be blissful to let England possess the ball and permit Mbappe and Dembele to work their magic on the counter. Let’s see if that tactic holds in a vital second half.
6:40AM BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE FOR PASSED AMERICAN JOURNALIST
Flowers have been left in tribute for American journalist Grant Wahl who handed away Saturday after immediately collapsing in the course of the Quarter Final between Argentina and the Netherlands.
6:25AM ENGLISH UP THE ANTE
The English have responded effectively since going behind with captain Harry Kane denied by Hugo Lloris. Kane has been purchased down within the space by a French defender as VAR seems over the incident. The referee waves it off after deliberation and we play on.
6:20AM CHAMPIONS TAKE THE LEAD (Tchouameni 17’) 1-0 FRANCE
The reigning champions lead on this heavyweight quarterfinal after a thunderous strike from Tchouameni for France. Pickford was no likelihood because the French midfielder from Real Madrid tucked it into the nook from distance, as France draw first blood.
6AM: ENGLAND AND FRANCE KICKOFF
Quite probably the most important sport of the match to this point is ready to go as reigning champions France battle England. The winner will face Morocco, the primary African crew to succeed in the World Cup closing 4.
TEAMS: ENGLAND: (4-3-3) Pickford, Walker, Stones, Maguire, Shaw, Henderson, Rice, Bellingham, Saka, Kane, Foden.
FRANCE: (4-2-3-1) Lloris, Kounde, Varane, Upamecano, Theo Hernandez, Tchouameni, Rabiot, Dembele, Griezmann, Mbappe, Giroud.
MOROCCO DOWN PORTUGAL TO BECOME FIRST EVER AFRICAN WORLD CUP SEMI-FINALISTS
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Morocco grew to become the primary African nation to succeed in the World Cup semi-finals as Youssef En-Nesyri’s first-half aim sealed a tense 1-0 victory over Portugal on Saturday at Al Thumama Stadium.
The Atlas Lions, additionally the primary Arab crew to make the final 4, added Portugal to their listing of European scalps with a resolute second-half efficiency.
Cristiano Ronaldo has possible performed his final World Cup match after making an ineffectual look as a second-half substitute, failing to attain his first knockout-phase aim on the match earlier than departing down the tunnel in tears.
Morocco took a Forty second-minute lead by way of En-Nesyri’s header as they got here on strongly late within the first interval.
Portugal piled on the strain after the break however an injury-hit Morocco, with out three of their 4 first-choice defenders as soon as skipper Romain Saiss was pressured off, held on regardless of being decreased to 10 males in added time.
“We came up against a really great Portugal team. We’re drawing on all we have, we still have guys injured. I told the guys before the match we had to write history for Africa. I’m very, very happy,” Regragui stated.
The partisan crowd undoubtedly helped the North Africans over the road, though Portugal struggled to create many clear-cut probabilities as they misplaced a World Cup quarter-final for the primary time.
“I think it wasn’t fair for us to lose, but that’s football,” stated Portugal coach Fernando Santos.
“We’re upset because we thought we could reach the final and win the final as well.” Five-time Ballon d’Or winner Ronaldo was despatched on early within the second half by Santos however couldn’t rescue the Euro 2016 winners.
Instead it was one other well-known day for Morocco, after earlier upset wins over Belgium and Spain, on penalties, in Qatar.
Walid Regragui’s males will face England or holders France within the semi-finals at Al Bayt Stadium on Wednesday.
Morocco will imagine they will topple both of these sides, having nonetheless solely conceded as soon as at this World Cup.
Portugal loved nearly all of possession within the opening half-hour, however Joao Felix’s fifth-minute diving header, saved by goalkeeper Yassine Bounou, was the closest both aspect got here to an early aim.
Morocco at all times seemed harmful, although, and Selim Amallah ballooned a shot over and Sofiane Boufal curled straight at Diogo Costa for the Africans.
– EN-NESYRI STRIKES –
It was no shock when Morocco did forge forward shortly earlier than the interval. Portuguese goalkeeper Costa got here for a cross from left-back Yahya Attiat-Allah he was by no means going to get to and Sevilla striker En-Nesyri did the remainder with a towering header.
Portugal nearly equalised seconds later in spectacular style when Bruno Fernandes crashed a bouncing ball from the right-hand aspect of the field towards the crossbar.
A loopy jiffy earlier than half-time additionally noticed Attiat-Allah, solely enjoying rather than the injured Noussair Mazraoui, blaze broad after one other fast counter.
Morocco nearly doubled their benefit 4 minutes after the restart as Costa nearly managed to forestall Hakim Ziyech’s free-kick from the correct from flying all the best way in.
Santos wasted little time in summoning for his captain, sending on Ronaldo and Joao Cancelo within the 51st minute.
Morocco, already with out injured defenders Mazraoui and Nayef Aguerd, had been dealt one other blow when Saiss was stretchered off.
Portugal began to put siege to the opposition aim and Fernandes got here near levelling once more when he fired narrowly over from the sting of the field.
Morocco had been largely maintaining Portugal at bay, however Bounou needed to be at his finest to tip over Felix’s drive with eight minutes remaining.
Eight minutes of harm time had been largely spent with Portugal camped within the Morocco half and Ronaldo nearly had his second when his low strike was stored out by Bounou.
Morocco substitute Walid Cheddira was harshly despatched off for a second yellow card within the area of two minutes.
Zakaria Aboukhlal ought to have put the sport to mattress solely to dink straight at Costa when clear by way of.
But his crew someway held onto their result in write their names within the historical past books as Pepe headed broad from shut vary proper on the loss of life
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‘WE’RE NOT HERE FOR THE QUARTERS’: ENGLAND’S FROGSTOMP WAR CRY
Harry Kane says England are brimming with perception — because the nation hopes they will beat France of their crunch quarter-final.
Skipper Harry advised followers confidence is surging that the Three Lions can go all the best way to glory.
An enormous international viewers will watch the showdown with the reigning champions — with England aiming to erase 56 years of harm, together with semi- closing disappointment in 2018 and penalty agony at Euro 2020.
Spurs ace Harry used the phrase “believe” repeatedly in his rallying cry, saying: “We’re not here just to reach a quarter-final.
“Looking back in 2018 we didn’t really know what to expect — whether we had the full belief to win the tournament I’m not quite sure.
“We backed that up in the Euros getting to another final and lost by a couple of kicks of the ball and I believe the belief has been building over the past four or five years.
“We entered this tournament hoping and believing we can win it and we have got to the stage now where we expected to be — but now it’s time to push on.
“We face a very tough game and I know everyone is ready. We are prepared and we go into that game with more belief than we had in 2018.”
Harry gained the Golden Boot as high scorer in Russia 2018 and obtained off the mark in Qatar with a thunderbolt within the 3-0 final 16 thrashing of Senegal.
And he confused that beating France on the Al Bayt stadium won’t be sufficient.
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Originally revealed as World Cup 2022 quarter-finals: Latest news, outcomes, schedule
