Euro 2016 France: Hosts Proceed To Final

Of course, in a game with so much space to defend, the Germans still had a couple of good chances to score.

Already a fans’ favourites and now the tournament’s top scorer with six goals, the goal machine with the boyish looks will again be France’s most risky weapon when they face Portugal in Sunday’s final. We didn’t make it to the final, so Rio will not be followed by another magical night.

“How I cope with that is hard to answer, we haven’t discussed beforehand what we would do after a loss, we will talk about that in a few days”.

France saw a return to the feverish days of 1998 when Zinedine Zidane guided the country to a World Cup triumph.

Griezmann plays his club football for Atletico Madrid, so he’s well aware of the threat posed by Cristiano Ronaldo, the Real Madrid goal machine who carries the hope of Portugal.

Griezmann missed a penalty for Atletico in the Champions League final.

The France global notched twice in Thursday night’s 2-0 semi-final win over Germany in Marseille, taking his total for the tournament up to six.

Deschamps hailed Germany as “a great team”.

“In this Euro, he’s been decisive for us”. “But I was able to score today and I’ve helped the team get to the final”.

French hero Antoine Griezmann finally revealed the reason behind his weird little dance celebration and it’s not what you’d expect. The World Cup holders easily dominated possession in the match.

While Les Blues had a relatively kind run in the early stages of the tournament, their last two performances have demonstrated why the odds compilers were unwilling to lay bigger than 10/3 (4.33) pre-tournament.

Teams are often teams until defeat sets in.

His two goals in the 2-0 win made him by far the tournament’s top scorer with six goals, three behind Platini’s record of nine in one Euro tournament.

Like Griezmann, Ronaldo made a slow start to the tournament.

Germany utterly bossed the first-half, but despite the scheming of Mesut Ozil and Toni Kroos, the lack of an in-form striker proved crucial. Joshua Kimmich hit the crossbar with one shot and other efforts went narrowly wide.

There was another moment in the match that showed what kind of player he is, when he took off to win an aerial duel with towering German centre back Benedikt Hoewedes.