Farewell to Cristiano: France reaches the semi-finals of Euro 2024 on penalties

Second consecutive penalty shootout It was not possible to get Portugal out. The hero of the previous match, Diogo Costa, was unable to repel anything this time – France scored without errors and reached the semi-finals without scoring anything from the game.

It was very careful football, especially in the first half. It’s not that the teams were terribly afraid of conceding, they just made it so that defense was the main thing. Positional football dominated, in which the Portuguese looked better, but not so much that we could talk about a serious advantage.

The second half turned out to be much livelier, and there were many more chances, and both teams had very good chances. The French were saved a couple of times by Mike Maignan; the Portuguese were saved in three cases by the meager inaccuracy of their opponents. One way or another, no one was able to score – and the game moved into extra time.

During this half hour, Portugal completely seized the initiative and created at least one deadly moment when Francisco Conceição, passing along the baseline, laid the ball out to Cristiano Ronaldo, as if on a silver platter. But the captain hit God knows where…

Well, in the penalty shootout, the fatal shot was Joao Felix, who hit the post. Everyone else scored – both France and Portugal. So Euro said goodbye to Cristiano Ronaldo – he will not play at this level again…

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