Sports Mole brings you live text coverage of today’s Euro 2024 last-16 contest between France and Belgium in Dusseldorf.
Good afternoon! Thank you for tuning into Sports Mole‘s live text commentary of France versus Belgium in the last 16 of Euro 2024.
The neighbouring nations meet in Dusseldorf, having both underwhelmed en route to the knockout phase.
In the group stage, they only secured second-place finishes due to final-day draws: France captain Kylian Mbappe finally broke his Euros duck at the third time of trying, but Les Bleus were still held to 1-1 by Poland in Group D; meanwhile, Belgium played out a goalless draw with Ukraine in Group E, where all four sides finished on the same amount of points.
Nevertheless, today’s winners will go on to meet either Portugal or Slovenia in the quarter-finals.
As kickoff is now less than half an hour away, let’s take a look at the all-important team news…
France have yet to convince at these finals, but they’ve conceded just once in their last five matches ahead of today’s knockout contest.
Meanwhile, Belgium have recorded eight clean sheets in their last 12 European Championship matches; and the Red Devils have recently lost only one of their last 18 in all competitions – to Slovakia two weeks ago.
Does that mean a close-fought encounter is on the cards? We shall see!
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