On “Stade de France” closer to midnight will determine the last semifinalist of the European championship.
The team from the tiny island nation against the giants of world football, teams, from which the whole of France are waiting only victory at home to continental forum. David vs Goliath – perhaps today such a comparison is appropriate.
Iceland have nothing to lose – the boys of Lars Lagerbäck already heroes, no one will reproach them in the case of poor result in today’s match. Such looseness, the French can only dream about – the ultimate goal is still far away, the defeat in the quarterfinals will be considered a failure and nothing else.
Alongside fearless Vikings Didier Deschamps will have to solve personnel problems in the team because of yellow cards, the French in the match against Ireland lost Rami, and Kant. It is expected that the two players to replace, and Umtiti by a Manchester city defender Iceland has everything in order.
For the first time, France and Iceland was found in 1957. Since then, eight times the Gauls beat the islanders and only three times finished the match in a draw. The last official matches took place in qualification for Euro-2000 – 3:2 and 1:1.
Preliminary formulations:
France: Lloris – Sagna, Umtiti, Casalini, Evra – Pogba, Matuidi, Cabaye – Griezmann, Giroud, Payet.
Iceland: Halldorsson — Severson, Arnason, R. Sigurdsson, Skulason — Gudmundsson, Sigurdsson, Bjarnason B. Bjarnason — Bodvarsson, Sigthórsson
Stream: TRK “Ukraine”, 22:00
Prediction: 2:1
