AL KHOR, Qatar : Coach Didier Deschamps said France beat a good England side with their "heart and guts" on Saturday to move into the World Cup semi-finals and keep alive their hopes of back-to-back titles.
An Olivier Giroud header 12 minutes from time kept alive French hopes of becoming the first team in 60 years to retain the World Cup with a 2-1 win over England."It's fabulous, it was a big game," said Deschamps. "We played a superb England team who are strong technically and physically."It's brilliant for the players to be in the last four again.
In these moments you kind of wish time could stop for a while."But tonight we're going to enjoy it. We got a bit lucky although we gave away two penalties.
We kept our lead with our hearts and our guts."England captain Harry Kane equalised with a penalty in the 54th minute but sent a second penalty half an hour later over the bar.