{"id":78656,"date":"2018-07-11T04:30:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T04:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/les-bleus-through-to-the-fifa-world-cup-final\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:51:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:51:17","slug":"les-bleus-through-to-the-fifa-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/les-bleus-through-to-the-fifa-world-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Bleus through to the FIFA World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/July\/11\/Germany (1).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL&nbsp;(SW) &#8211; After a gap of 12 years, France reached their third final in six World Cups and is dubbed as favourites whether they play England or Croatia.<\/p>\n<p>France&#39;s Les Bleus beat the Belgium&#39;s Red Devils 1-0 in the World Cup semi-final in St Petersburg on Tuesday night to book a place in the World Cup final against either Croatia or England.<\/p>\n<p>According to France 24, the Les Bleus started off the tournament unconvincingly, slogging their way through group stage games that should have been easy. The 4-3 thriller over Argentina was Mbapp&eacute;&#39;s moment, and the entire French team basked in the glow of his talismanic performance. Their 2-0 victory over Uruguay was a quieter affair. They played coolly, clinically, competently, but without a gritty, passionate drive.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Umtiti headed France into the World Cup final in Saint Petersburg on Tuesday with a 1-0 win, consigning Belgium&rsquo;s &#39;golden generation&#39; to another bitter disappointment, the AFP reported. France&#39;s own supremely talented young squad will aim to make amends for defeat on home soil in the final of Euro 2016 in Sunday&#39;s showpiece against England or Croatia, it added.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; After a gap of 12 years, France reached their third final in six World Cups and is dubbed as favorites whether they play England or Croatia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-78656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}