There was an accident in Group D of the European Championship, Austria won two wins and one loss to become the top of the group, France won one and drew two to finish second in the group, and the Netherlands was third in the group.
Such a result is the 1/8 finals, D2 France and Group E second Belgium met in advance, and staged the most interesting strong dialogue in the knockout stage.
France is ranked second in the world and Belgium is third, and although the performance in the group stage is not satisfactory, the traffic brought by Mbappe and De Bruyne still makes fans sit in front of the TV and stay up late to watch the game.
Historical record: France have faced Belgium in four major international tournaments (World Cup and European Championship) and have won all of them. The last time the two teams met in a major tournament was in the 2018 World Cup semi-finals, when France narrowly beat Belgium 1-0.
Kevin De Bruyne believes that "anything can happen in football and we will do everything we can to eliminate France." France are favourites, but we have a chance to beat them and we have to show great form or we should leave. ”
Mbappe was interested in his nose and said I don't care if someone hits me in the nose to get to the quarter-finals. My nose is broken.
France starters: 16-Maignan, 5-Kounde, 4-Upamecano, 17-Saliba, 22-Te'o, 13-Kante, 8-Tchouameni, 14-Rabiot, 7-Griezmann, 10-Mbappe, 15-Thuram
Belgium starters: 1-Castels, 3-Tate, 4-Feth, 5-Vertonghen, 21-Castagne, 7-De Bruyne, 24-Amadou Onana, 11-Carrasco, 20-Opponda, 22-Doku, 10-Lukaku
In the first half, France's Tchouameni, Antoine Griezmann and Rabiot each received a yellow card in 24 minutes. Both sides had opportunities but did not. At full-time, France 1-0 Belgium.
In this tournament, France scored three goals (one penalty, two own goals) and were the first team in the history of the tournament to reach the quarter-finals without scoring in sports. You have to say that France is the luckiest team so far, but no matter how good the luck is, there will be a day when it runs out, and what will happen to France in the quarter-finals against its old rival Portugal (3-0 on penalties to advance to the quarterfinals)?
France and Portugal have played each other a total of 28 times in history, with 19 wins, 3 draws and 6 losses, of which France scored 52 goals and conceded 31 goals. The last time the two teams met was in the group stage of Euro 2020, when the two sides drew 2-2.
Another own goal, Vertonghen scored his ninth own goal of the tournament.
Germany v Scotland: Rudiger
Austria vs France: Vaubel
Czech Republic vs Portugal: Hranak
Croatia vs Albania: Jasoula
Spain vs Italy: Calafiori
Turkey vs Portugal: Arcadine
Netherlands vs Austria: Mullen
Spain vs Georgia: Lenormand
After the game, the French team was very satisfied with the game, and on the issue of 1:0, they said that if they can win the championship, it doesn't matter if it is all 1:0. Midfielder Rabiot said, "Inefficiency? In fact, it only takes one goal to win. 1-0 is enough for us. If it's like this until the end, we're okay with that.
Belgian De Bruyne faced the provocation of reporters and was asked about the failure of Belgium's golden generation? De Bruyne ended the question with a "stupid question"!