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France v Morocco gets the World Cup quarter-finals underway tonight.

Kick-off in Boston is at 21:00 BST.

TEAM NEWS

Didier Deschamps makes just one change to the France side that beat Paraguay.

It’s a much-anticipated alteration, too, as Desire Doue replaces Bradley Barcola on the wing.

As for Morocco, Ismail Saibari is only fit enough for a place on the bench. Redouane Halhal also makes way.

Anass Salah-Eddine and Chemsdine Talbi come in.

France have failed in their bid to overturn Michael Olise’s yellow card from their win against Paraguay, so the Bayern Munich man will miss his country’s semi-final if he receives another booking tonight, provided France beat Morocco, of course.

Barcola, Manu Kone, Issa Diop, Bilal El Khannouss, Achraf Hakimi, Halhal and Azzedine Ounahi are the other players on the suspension tightrope.

The good news: yellow cards are wiped after this round of matches.

Here are the players on show owned by more than 5% in the official FIFA game:

LINE-UPS

France XI: Maignan, Kounde, Upamecano, Saliba, Digne, Kone, Rabiot, Dembele, Olise, Doue, Mbappe

Subs: Samba, Risser, Gusto, Konate, T Hernandez, L Hernandez, Lacroix, Tchouameni, Kante, Zaire-Emery, Cherki, Akliouche, Thuram, Barcola, Mateta

Morocco XI: Bounou, Hakimi, Diop, Mazraoui, Salah-Eddine, Bouaddi, El Aynaoui, Talbi, Ounahi, El Khannouss, Diaz

Subs: Mohamedi, Tagnaouli, Saadane, El Ouahdi, Riad, Belammari, Halhal, Amrabat, El Mourabet, Yassine, Rahimi, Sbai, El Kaabi, Amaimouni


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  1. ChelseaGuy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    A) Yamal
    B) Kane

    1) Oyarzabal
    2) Bellingham

    1. Bobby Digital
      • 9 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      B2

  2. bso
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Kane, Oyarzabal or Haaland? Have Bellingham, Baena and two Spain defenders.
    Thanks!

    1. ChelseaGuy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Kane

    2. Bobby Digital
      • 9 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Haaland

    3. PartyTime
      • 5 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Oya

  3. Pep Roulette
    • 8 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Ryerson being so attacking, makes Gordon a very juicy option.

  4. FPL Emu
    • 15 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Who would you choose?

    A) Baena

    B) De Ketelaere (scouting bonus)

    C) Ounahi (scouting bonus)

    1. PartyTime
      • 5 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      A if he starts

      1. FPL Emu
        • 15 Years
        1 month, 15 days ago

        Yeah, that is of course the question 🙂

    2. Beto Hall Tzol
      • 9 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      B

      1. FPL Emu
        • 15 Years
        1 month, 15 days ago

        Just looked at De Ketelaere's minutes. Even hauling hard last match he only got 67 minutes. Then 45 minutes the game before that. Lukaku lurking in the shadows.

        1. Beto Hall Tzol
          • 9 Years
          1 month, 15 days ago

          Yeah - they were 3-1 up in last game when he hauled and subbed @ 67mins. Prev game Bel were crap and Lukaku came on HT. some risk, but he’s cheap, low owned OOP mid, and you likely have a bench to cover a flop.

  5. Travel Notes
    • 4 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    I've gone for maximum captain.

    1. ChelseaGuy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      ATB

    2. PartyTime
      • 5 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Tempting

  6. Bobbyg1
    • 14 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Clean sheet shield this gameweek or sf guys?

    1. Travel Notes
      • 4 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      What's your team?

      1. Bobbyg1
        • 14 Years
        1 month, 15 days ago

        Martinez
        Martinez, Kounde, Cucu, NOR, Cubarsi

        1. Haa-lala-land
          • 5 Years
          1 month, 15 days ago

          This round looks great to play the Shield

    2. jacob1989
      • 4 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      This gw

    3. Bobbyg1
      • 14 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Thanks guys

    4. patrickhatrick
      • 13 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      save for semis. expected lower scoring game

  7. Christina.
    • 16 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Barcola->Doue -3
    Done
    We Move

    1. FPL Emu
      • 15 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      I'm doing Dembele to Doue in practice, haha

  8. PartyTime
    • 5 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    France 3-0 Morocco
    España 2-1 Belgium
    Norway 2-2 England (12-13) after shoot-outs
    Argentina 4-1 Switzerland

    1. Haa-lala-land
      • 5 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      No chance Switzerland have four put past them

      1. PartyTime
        • 5 Years
        1 month, 15 days ago

        Jesus Christ can't score goals like Messi

        1. Haa-lala-land
          • 5 Years
          1 month, 15 days ago

          Hes a defender

          1. PartyTime
            • 5 Years
            1 month, 15 days ago

            Jesus wasn't thick enough to be a defender

  9. FPL Emu
    • 15 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Is Digne taking any set pieces?

    1. The Knights Template
      • 12 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      I haven’t seen this grav for a very long time!

  10. grooveymatt65
    • 12 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Oyzabal or Haaland for 12th man?

    1. Bobbyg1
      • 14 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Haaland

    2. patrickhatrick
      • 13 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Oyazarbal. Belgium look weak at the back

  11. PartyTime
    • 5 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    French overload here
    Mbappe, Olise, Doue, Dembele, Upa

    1. jacob1989
      • 4 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Got the big 3 plus kounde

      1. patrickhatrick
        • 13 Years
        1 month, 15 days ago

        big 3 and Kounde too… and max cap to finish them all!

  12. jacob1989
    • 4 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    If i c hakimi is cs doubled if conceding 1 goal? Qb was not doubled

    1. Haa-lala-land
      • 5 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      it is not doubled in that case

  13. Haa-lala-land
    • 5 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Umming and ahhing for ages about captaining Olise or Dembele. Went Olise in the end. GL all!

    1. Bobbyg1
      • 14 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      No Mbappe?

      1. Haa-lala-land
        • 5 Years
        1 month, 15 days ago

        Couldnt fit him in

      2. Mozumbus
        • 5 Years
        1 month, 15 days ago

        He does such stuff consistently lol

  14. gooberman
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Awful low camera angle for god sake!!

    1. Haa-lala-land
      • 5 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Yeah its bad
      I think they are doing it because they have to show the sponsors names on the hoarding clearly for an agreed time at that angle.
      Just my conspiracy

      1. gooberman
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        1 month, 15 days ago

        Not sure about that. It will be the same for the whole game.

  15. jacob1989
    • 4 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Dumb dumb foul. So mbappe 7 pt goal looks like

  16. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Beautiful day for Bono owners

  17. JBG
    • 8 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Next time the ref should wait until HT to let the player take the pen. What the actual fck was that???

    1. jacob1989
      • 4 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Or could have had the hydration break till var checks it!

      1. JBG
        • 8 Years
        1 month, 15 days ago

        Exactly... weird situation imo.

  18. jacob1989
    • 4 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Oh.. wow! Nobody can score penalty.. kane and Haaland to miss too now

    1. Haa-lala-land
      • 5 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Kane missed already v Croatia. Sort of.

  19. SM001
    • 10 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    There have been some God awful pens this WC.

    1. Bobby Digital
      • 9 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Goalkeepers have figured out not to move early when the shooter uses that studdering style

      1. EmreCan Hustle
        • 14 Years
        1 month, 15 days ago

        Wish Raya learns that someday

    2. Feanor
      • 17 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Didn't even make proper contact. Shocking stuff

    3. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      There all try that stutter stuff and it ain’t working any more…

  20. Absolutely Muñozed
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Bono what a gk he is!!

    1. JBG
      • 8 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Was a shocking pen tbf

      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        1 month, 15 days ago

        Agreed

      2. Absolutely Muñozed
        1 month, 15 days ago

        it could be because of his shimmy

  21. EmreCan Hustle
    • 14 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    What was the delay for? The penalty looked obvious.

  22. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Opened apt to see how much penalty save was and saw had Bounou and was like ‘I didn’t do that’ - then realised max cappo was on - didn’t realise it would move it around real time, nice

  23. JBG
    • 8 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    I swear the U2 lead leadsinger plays better for Morocco than his clubs.

  24. SM001
    • 10 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Jeremy Beadle could have saved that pen.

  25. DeSelby
    • 4 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    How can there be 5 minutes of added time when the break for the penalty took over 3 minutes and the hydration break was 3 minutes?

    1. DeSelby
      • 4 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Haha. Jon Champion just said the exact same thing.

  26. bso
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    I hope this game stays fair. Too many suspect calls.

    1. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      It won't, Refs are all Argentinian
      ]
      FIFA = Fixed It For Argentina

    2. Absolutely Muñozed
      1 month, 15 days ago

      like?

  27. Charlie Price
    • 5 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Just checked my team on the app at HT and it’s showing Mbappe has already played 50 mins?

  28. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Morocco making France wait by hiding in the dressing room

  29. jacob1989
    • 4 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Just like messi missed penalties, mbappe redeems himself too

  30. jacob1989
    • 4 Years
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Well morocco are ultra defensive. Deserve to be eliminated

    1. x.jim.x
      • 11 Years
      1 month, 15 days ago

      You expect them to try and go toe-to-toe with the best team in the world?

      1. jacob1989
        • 4 Years
        1 month, 15 days ago

        Will they be able to defend for 120 mins? And hope to win on penalties? Its not like they are terrible in attack. Very poor game by morocco

        1. x.jim.x
          • 11 Years
          1 month, 15 days ago

          It’s a tried and tested method we’ve seen a billion times in football

          1. Haa-lala-land
            • 5 Years
            1 month, 15 days ago

            Its generally the counter attack that diffrentiates one defensive team from another, and separates a dull or predicate game from an exciting one

            1. jacob1989
              • 4 Years
              1 month, 15 days ago

              Morocco didnt counter attack. They did nothing.