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France vs. Brazil - Full Game Highlights
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00:00This is the Brazil team, a strong looking front line with Vinicius Junior, Cunha, Martinelli, Rafinha, but very inexperienced at
00:08the back.
00:09Wesley, Bremer, Pereira and Santos, Douglas Santos, between them have only 13 caps.
00:15In some ways, for Carlo Ancelotti, this is an experimental evening.
00:21Here's the fourth official, Tim Ford, in the VAR room.
00:27It may be an experimental-looking Brazilian team, but that is a very strong starting XI for France this evening.
00:35Who come into the game as favourites, higher in the FIFA rankings, currently third, Brazil fifth.
00:41But Carlo Ancelotti does have a very tough job on his hands.
00:45As if the last five games, they've only won two, they've lost two, they drew against Tunisia.
00:50And there we go, Steve.
00:52Kylian Mbappé leading the line tonight.
00:54Good to see him.
00:55On two feet and playing football.
00:57Yeah.
00:58Surprised to see him start the game, actually.
01:00I've only had small cameo appearances for Real Madrid.
01:06And there's Casemiro, ex-Real Madrid, now Manchester United as well.
01:09Well, this is the France team.
01:10Spot the weakness in this.
01:12They are missing a couple of key players.
01:14No Saliba, Jules Koundé, Bradley Bacola haven't made the squad.
01:18But this is a very well-balanced team.
01:20Canati alongside Rupert Meccano in midfield.
01:23Mane and the chosen goalkeeper tonight.
01:25And the big surprise, they left the naming of the team officially until the very last minute.
01:31In fact, beyond the last minute, they were keeping us guessing.
01:33But Kylian Mbappé does start.
01:35And as you were saying, Steve, in recent weeks, the last four games, only 21 minutes against Manchester City.
01:41Reminded the evolution of Brazilian football.
01:45This is an excellent start.
01:47Gusto down the right-hand side, flipping it right across.
01:50Looking for Ekitike, an important header from Wesley.
01:57He's one of the youngsters coming into the team, the 22-year-old.
02:00Plays his football at Roma.
02:05And that's this lovely play in it, Gusto, Dembele.
02:10Ederson behind.
02:12A real rookie back four for Brazil.
02:17Now without Alisson, the Liverpool goalkeeper, Gabriel of Arsenal.
02:23Aleksandro was a late withdrawal as well.
02:30Taken quickly on the blind side.
02:33Oh, that's a wishfish little shot there.
02:37Good run by Rafinha, nice pick-out.
02:39Just doesn't settle enough, just doesn't get down.
02:42But this is a nice ball by Casemiro.
02:45Just a simple ball.
02:50I mean, this last, what, 18 months, Rob?
02:52Last year and this year, he's been outstanding, hasn't he?
02:55Gone to another level that we've never seen from Rafinha.
03:02And the one thing that the two sets of players will be wanting to avoid tonight
03:05is any injury going to the final straight of their domestic seasons.
03:13Deschamps won't run any calls from the club managers tomorrow.
03:19No, it's Wesley on Teo Hernandez.
03:21Allowed to go wherever he wants to.
03:24That's what winning the Ballon d'Or is for, you can play wherever you want.
03:27Exactly.
03:30There you, TK.
03:32Draws the foul this time.
03:41Yeah.
03:42Just a simple in and out.
03:44And Wesley's done what Wesley does, he just fouls.
03:47He has to be careful.
03:49Thankfully, it is a friendly.
03:50He's made about three or four fouls already.
03:57That will be a test for Edison these days, playing his football in Turkey with Fenerbahce.
04:07And a slight spring-like breeze around this stadium.
04:15Edison organising his new-look defence.
04:19From Meccano is up from the back, it's aimed to the far post, but...
04:25Could have done better.
04:26It was Rabiot who got there in the end.
04:28It was a lovely in-swinger.
04:31And then just coiling out at the end, and Rabiot just takes his eye off it, really.
04:36Goes with his arm, almost.
04:39Starting with Haiti against Scotland.
04:41I hope the breweries are stacked that day.
04:44Oh, yes.
04:49And there'll be a quarter-final here on the 9th of July.
04:54And these are two teams who you'll be expecting to make it to at least the semi-finals.
05:03It's all beginning to settle into their surroundings.
05:06Wesley looking for Rafinha.
05:08Rafinha puts it back, but coming to greet him.
05:11Up to Meccano.
05:13And Canati.
05:18There was a nice run by Rafinha.
05:19Yep.
05:21Canati gets a cross.
05:28Hernandez, sleek football from France.
05:31Rabiot.
05:38Continues.
05:39I was going to say he's charged down the left, but it's kind of a breeze down the left-hand
05:42side for the experienced French international.
05:47Long ball over the top.
05:49Looks like it's onside.
05:51Rafinha.
05:53Wrong pass from the Barcelona man.
05:56Yeah, disappointing, actually, wasn't it, Rob?
06:08Benin just come into the extreme of his area, breaking his boredom.
06:12He's largely been a spectator so far.
06:16Now Canati.
06:19Given away.
06:20Now can they come alive here?
06:23Brazil.
06:23The gap opens up.
06:25Oh, so very, very close.
06:30Yeah, but at least he took the shot on.
06:31Yeah, Martinelli.
06:33First time we've seen him tonight, really.
06:34But he was lurking with intensity.
06:37Yeah, poor ball by Dembele.
06:39Given to Vinny Jr.
06:41He makes a good run to clear out the area, Vinny Jr.
06:43And as he cuts inside up a Mekarno, he just can't bend it around Mignon into the goal.
06:54When it comes to the World Cup Finals, France will be facing Senegal in New Jersey.
07:01Norway in Boston and waiting for their opponents in Philadelphia from the playoffs.
07:07Great little step over.
07:09Poor ball in, easily defended by Pereira.
07:13Yeah, again, that's Mbappe, that side, down the right wing.
07:26Well, a buzzer around the stadium as the supporters are studious at the moment rather than excited.
07:31Referee bought a little bit of time there and then decided it had been a foul on Rabiot.
07:45Canate.
07:48He still looking to free Alise there.
07:56Ball is played into Mbappe territory.
07:58Goalkeeper comes and a fanciful little flick.
08:01It just comes so naturally.
08:05I think he's passing the fitness test.
08:10And he's just one off the France goal-scoring record now.
08:19Magnificent Mbappe.
08:22Yeah, that's where he should be playing, shouldn't he?
08:24He should be playing as a number nine, just using his sheer pace.
08:30Because once he gets to the other side of the defenders, nobody in world football is stopping.
08:36And look how quick he is.
08:38He's just away and then it's just whether he can finish it.
08:41And of course he can finish it because all he does is score goals.
08:44Wins by Chouameni, then Dembele into his path.
08:47Just sprints away from Bremer, who's got no chance of catching him.
08:52Just a stink little scooper early over Ederson, who's got absolutely no chance.
08:58Lovely, lovely, a cute finish.
09:12Vinicius Junior, we haven't seen a great deal of him yet.
09:15He will want to take centre stage against Mbappe.
09:18Shoot at the demand and, well, it's always going well wide from Cunha.
09:23Yeah, you're more than happy for Cunha, aren't you, to take a shot from 30 yards.
09:29Hasn't much options for Vinicius Junior.
09:32Martinelli made a run, Rafinha leaves the space for Cunha, but it's way, way, way wide.
09:38Never even threatening.
09:40Puts pressure on everybody in that front line because they're not the exciting, free-flowing Brazil of old, are they?
09:47They're a very pragmatic, get-behind-the-ball counter-attack in Brazil.
09:50And it's whether the fans can appreciate that or not.
09:58This is a great move and a term again by Mbappe.
10:01They need to really get a grip of it because at the moment he has the freedom of the Brazil
10:06penalty area.
10:08Yeah, it was a nice quick play by France.
10:12Dembele into Choumeni yet again.
10:14Choumeni into Mbappe.
10:16He just pulls his shot.
10:18Eketike wants it actually to be pulled back to him.
10:20We talk about free-flowing Brazil.
10:22It's not.
10:22Now it's free-flowing France.
10:28Here is Wesley.
10:31Cuts inside.
10:33Vinicius Junior gives him an angle.
10:34Vinicius Junior and the rest of the Brazil team felt there'd been a foul on the full-back there.
10:39The referee doing his best to keep things flowing.
10:41And a little test from distance from Casemiro.
10:46Yeah, firstly it wasn't a foul on Wesley.
10:48He went flying in.
10:49Secondly, it was a corner.
10:51Casemiro takes the shot and the goalkeeper saves it.
10:54So it is a corner.
10:55But you can't, even in a friendly, you can't react like that to the referee and remonstrate in front of
11:01him.
11:02But this shot, the goalkeeper gets a hand to it.
11:10And Fina looking to launch it into a sea of stars.
11:16Hand it to the far post.
11:17A chance.
11:18A free header.
11:19That was a chance from Casemiro.
11:21A good chance he was unmarked.
11:27He's playing really well, actually.
11:29He's playing really well for Madrid as well.
11:31True or many.
11:35There they go again, France.
11:38Haven't seen the best of Dembele yet.
11:40Cuts it in towards Elize.
11:43And Bappi takes his time in his mind's eye.
11:45That was going in the cock corner.
11:48Yeah, he doesn't move Wesley really, does he, Kylian?
11:51And normally, he moves the defender a bit.
11:54They work it well into Dembele.
11:59Then into Elize and onto Mbappe.
12:02But it was difficult.
12:04Mass alterations as the game goes on from Carlo Ancelotti.
12:17Well, France started the game as clear favourites.
12:19Will be one of the favourites for the World Cup Finals as well.
12:23Finalists in 22.
12:24Winners in 2018.
12:27No signs that Brazil have the players to end a 24-year run without success at the World Cup Finals.
12:35Oh, no.
12:36No, no, no.
12:39We want to see something else, don't we, from Brazil that makes us excited.
12:43And at this moment, in the qualification games, it hasn't happened.
12:50A chance for Luis Embry to come on and to earn his spurs as well.
12:56That was Wesley down the side, the right-back got forward.
12:59I don't know what he's doing.
13:00Was that a cross?
13:02Was that a shot?
13:03Because he doesn't wrap his foot around it at all.
13:08I mean, he knows.
13:11Yeah, Harland has scored more this season in the English elite.
13:25Better from Brazil.
13:28At least there being a little bit more forthright in the second half.
13:30Six to the feet of Martinelli and then a missed control at the final moment from Casemiro.
13:35Yeah, I think Martinelli was trying to find Vinny Jr.
13:38And Casemiro comes bursting through.
13:41It nearly falls into his path.
13:48There is Vinicius Jr.
13:51And again, when you see him play for Real Madrid,
13:53you'd maybe expect him to take the defender on that.
13:57Trying to be a little unselfish.
13:59Puts it back to Casemiro.
14:01Across the face of goal.
14:03Oh, the goalkeeper giving up the chase on that one.
14:05And it was a fine block of necessity from Canate.
14:09Yeah, but it's better from Brazil.
14:12Again, get the ball forward.
14:13Let the main men, with all respect, play.
14:17Vinny Jr. into Casemiro.
14:19Into Cunha.
14:20Into Martinelli.
14:21And then a block by Canate.
14:22But it's better.
14:26This team don't play flamboyant football.
14:29But they have been measured and organised.
14:31And now it's a test of the defence.
14:32In the first save of the game from Manion.
14:36Forced to Vinicius Jr.
14:38Draws the defenders.
14:39Leads it back to Casemiro.
14:40Tries to pass it in.
14:42Well, a marked improvement from Brazil.
14:44Yeah.
14:44And that was a meeting.
14:45Again, I think it was, Rob.
14:47Cutting in.
14:49Again, attacking Teo Hernandez.
14:50Great run by Wesley around the outside.
14:53Nice shot.
14:53Simple enough for the goalkeeper.
14:55But they've started really well, Brazil.
15:05Lewis Henrique had a couple of good seasons at Real Betis in La Liga.
15:09After they invested a lot of money to sign in from Fluminense.
15:14And it back to Brazil.
15:15It's a bit of a globetrotter.
15:16Playing for Zenit in St. Petersburg.
15:19And an opportunity tonight for him to impress Carlo Ancelotti.
15:27That looked suspiciously offside.
15:29That looked like a foul.
15:31That looked like a good tackle.
15:33The referee has a couple of decisions to make here.
15:36Vinny Jr. swears, almost literally,
15:40but the challenge was inside the penalty.
15:42We'll go to the VAR.
15:52Cunyron to the loose ball.
15:54Maybe they just had it come off a defender.
15:56It's over to Mekano.
15:57It was outside the penalty area anyway.
16:00Scruffy.
16:02It is a goal.
16:03It is denial of a goal scored and opportunity.
16:05Of course it is.
16:09So if you're VAR, are you going to request that he is dismissed?
16:11Yeah, you'll probably send him off, aren't you?
16:12Yeah, it was a really awful challenge from up on Karno.
16:17It's not a yellow.
16:19It's a red.
16:23And France will play a player light for the remainder of the game.
16:33Most expensive doorstop in the world.
16:35Just a bit.
16:38Pereira and Martinelli, the players, over it.
16:42Culled in by the Brazilian.
16:43Cooly taken by Manion.
16:49They should be able to score goals at least.
16:53That was a deep pool of promising talent.
16:58Yeah, promising.
16:58Yeah, that's the opposite of words, isn't it?
17:00And Jao Pedro making his seventh appearance tonight.
17:02He's yet to score a goal for Brasili.
17:04He's had an impressive first season with Chelsea.
17:09Eighteen goals for Chelsea.
17:11Right, France break from the back.
17:13Alise draws defenders.
17:15But it bought Akatike.
17:16It walks it in and France come alive.
17:24They breeze into a two-goal lead.
17:28Yeah, ten men, no problem.
17:30This all stems right from the very back.
17:33From the goalkeeper playing out to the left-back.
17:36And they make it.
17:39And pass the ball through the pitch.
17:41This is a lovely goal.
17:43Unfortunately, we're only seeing the very latter end of it.
17:46When the four forwards break.
17:48But actually, it stems right back.
17:50Alise to Akatike.
17:52Just dinks it.
17:53Chips it over Edison again.
17:54He could have went to Mbappe.
17:55Goals to Akatike.
17:57Beautiful finish.
17:58Something out of this assortment of Brazilian players.
18:02Make a team out of them.
18:09Mauricio's junior.
18:11To Douglas Santos.
18:13So a little bit one-dimensional from Brazil.
18:16Give it to Vinny and hope for the best.
18:18Yeah, it's hard for Vinny because, as I said,
18:21Uncle Alise is putting in a shift and a half.
18:23He does try and help Mal-Augusto out as much as he can.
18:30Offering some protection to Vinny and a free kick.
18:34And another test of the French defence.
18:37Too acute an angle to go direct for goal.
18:39Especially at this level of football.
18:42Yeah, he just attacks Augusto this time.
18:44Gets his pass away.
18:45I mean, it wasn't really a foul, was it?
18:56I mean, it's desperate to keep a clean sheet.
18:58He has these defenders almost stepping on his toes.
19:01They're defending so deeply.
19:02The goalkeeper surprisingly let it go.
19:06And he needs a touch and he gets a touch.
19:08And Brazil are back in it.
19:12Bremer.
19:14Yeah, it was a scuffy goal.
19:15But actually it was a really nice cross in for the...
19:17From the free kick.
19:19Give the Brazilian fans something to cheer about.
19:23Well, his first goal for his country for Bremer.
19:27He'll take them from anywhere.
19:30They're faying for scoring imaginative goals.
19:32But that was a bread and butter goal.
19:34From the Juventus man.
19:37And a tense 12 minutes now.
19:39Yeah, more importantly, they're back in the game.
19:40Nice cross in.
19:42To the far post.
19:44Gets recycled back by Casemiro.
19:47He's well on side for him to mark Vinny Jr.
19:52Couldn't they maybe be concerned for his position at right back?
19:55Because Augusto's had a great game.
20:00Yeah, he did well actually.
20:01Vinny Jr. did really well.
20:04Corner, last minute of the game.
20:06Build pressure.
20:07See if he can get the equaliser.
20:08Of course, there's going to be plenty of minutes.
20:11Injury time.
20:12The amount of substitutions we've had.
20:14Gabriel Sara hangs it in the air.
20:17Another test.
20:19Of the France defence.
20:20They fell the last one.
20:22When Bremer scored.
20:27Do they sell it short?
20:29They've still got plenty of players forward here as well.
20:33Too much put on that.
20:34Or was it a flamboyant attempt to the finish?
20:38Should have done better actually, Bremer.
20:40He's the centre-half.
20:42Got the one goal.
20:43It's one of those you keep having to check.
20:44What's he doing up there?
20:45By Enrique.
20:46Again, the left peg.
20:48That left foot of his.
20:49Nice outswinger.
20:50This will be a better angle actually to see Bremer's volley.
20:54Ooh, yeah, he has a good sighted off it.
20:56It just comes off it at the end.
20:58Slices it slightly.
21:00But he should have done better.
21:01Experience French players have it under control.
21:08Douglas Santos.
21:12And there needs no introduction.
21:13Vinny Junior.
21:15Puts it inside.
21:17Shoot is the demand.
21:18They play it through.
21:19Oh, and Vinny Junior had a glorious opportunity to equalise in a minute 97.
21:25What a ball by Bremer.
21:26I don't know whether it comes off the post this.
21:28It was that quick.
21:29But it was a fantastic ball off Bremer.
21:33Oh, no, he just completely mishits it.
21:36Goes with his wrong foot.
21:37Goes with his right foot instead of sticking it with his left.
21:40Vinny Junior.
21:41It's a great opportunity.
21:42Last kick of the game virtually.
21:44Why doesn't he go with his left foot, Rob?
21:48Carlo Ancelotti does not have a lot of time on his hands.
21:52Croatia and Panama coming up.
21:53But they have been outclashed tonight.
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