The Uruguay of the moving Tabarez can't make it: the heart is not enough for the charrua national team, orphan of Matador Cavani, and the match against France in this sense holds no surprises. He won the best team, with the best players. Two to zero the score, with goals from Varane and Griezmann on a clamorous duck by the former Lazio goalkeeper Muslera. But the feeling is that there would have been nothing to do anyway: Uruguay practically never shoots on goal in 90 minutes. The absence of the PSG striker is too heavy, Suarez alone cannot guarantee goals or pressing, and so the defense, so far almost perfect in this World Cup, also gives way. In fact, Celeste had so far conceded only one goal in 4 games, like Brazil. And he had won them all, like Belgium (which tonight challenges Brazil to reach the French in the semifinals). However, nothing to do in this first quarter-final: two goals conceded and a just defeat.
So the very solid France of Deschamps goes to the semifinals: today Mbappé was left dry, but the whole team convinced first by grinding the game and then by authoritatively controlling the advantage acquired. The last two times France have reached the semi-finals of a World Cup, they have always reached the final: in 2006 they lost to Italy, in 1998 they won the title by beating Ronaldo's Brazil 3-0.
