France 1 Belgium 0: Are the French improving? Was De Bruyne wasted deep? What now for Belgium?
“France are into the quarter-finals of Euro 2024 — despite having mustered only a penalty and two own goals in four matches to reach the latter stages of the tournament. The substitute Randal Kolo Muani’s late shot took a wicked deflection off Jan Vertonghen to defeat Belgium in a dour contest in Dusseldorf as Didier Deschamps’ side forced passage rather unconvincingly into a last-eight tie against either Slovenia or Portugal. The centre-half’s own goal was the ninth of the finals to date. Daniel Taylor, Peter Rutzler and Mark Carey analyse the key talking points from Dusseldorf. …”
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