ENGLAND 1 FRANCE 2
FULLTIME
90+10min - Rashford and Mount over the ball. It's Rashford who takes and it just goes over! It just had too much height on it, and bounces on top of the net on its way out! And that's fulltime!
90+8min - Mbappe looks to have been fouled by Sterling but the ref waves play on. Rice hurls a cross for Maguire to run onto and he earns a free-kick just outside the box! Is this the chance?
90+6min - Southgate is bringing on Grealish with less than two minutes to play, can he turn it around for England? We currently have a stoppage with Stones down injured.
90+4min - France look to counter through Mbappe but the speedster instead opts to give up the chase and preserve his legs. Shaw tries the cross but Lloris is there to claim it.
90+2min - Bellingam tries to find Maguire with a long-ranged cross into the box but Lloris does well to get up and claim it, before falling and smothering the ball. England wanted the foul.
90min - Rabiot goes down and wins the free-kick for France. We're going to have eight minutes of added time. Is that enough for England to force extra time?
88min - Maguire looking for a foul but won't get it. Bellingham finds Mount with a nice pass, but the latter's shot rockets over the goal posts. Had time for another touch.
86min - Bellingham is picked up for a foul and he can't believe it. Kounde went down in a heap, but did get to the ball first. Can England recover and score an equaliser?
84min - Kane will line up his second penalty. Can he deliver yet again? NO HE CAN'T! He's absolutely blasted it over the goal. Pressure clearly a factor. What a moment.
82min - Mount goes down in the box and the VAR will take a look for a possible penalty. Hernandez clattered into the replacement's back. And it's given!
78min - FRANCE GOAL GIROUD
Giroud makes good contact with his left to force a great save from Pickford for a corner. France go again, put up another cross for Giroud and he heads it home for the go-ahead goal!
76min - Giroud heads it down for Dembele to run on to, he delivers a cross but nobody there to meet it. France try another cross to their target man but he heads it high and wide of the goal.
74min - Henderson does well to guide the ball out for a throw-in, but Bellingam can't control the pass and goes down appealing for the foul - play on.
72min - Shaw dribbles down the left wing, deliveres a cross across goal and Saka almost gets ahead of his marker, gets a touch on it but can't get his shot on target.
70min - England take the free-kick, Maguire gets up, unmarked and makes good contact with his head and it just glances the outside of the post on its way out. Very close.
68min - Hernandez can't control a pass and Saka lets it roll out for a goalkick. French fans really starting to get into this now, urging their team on. Saka earns another free-kick.
66min - Pickford tries to find Kane with a long kick but it travels all the way to opposite keeper Lloris, as France look to quickly breakout through Griezmann.
64min - Griezmann tries to break but Rice gets a foot in to send the ball over the touchline for a throw-in. Dembele tries to float the ball over the top but it safely goes out for a goalkick.
62min - Bellingham finds Foden down the left, before Kane takes one touch, looks to shoot but much like Saka, can't conntect with any type of venom and Lloris takes it comfortably.
60min - Saka again troubling the French, dribbling his way past a few defenders, before firing a shot but can't make enough contact and Lloris smothers it.
58min - Mbappe skins Walker, before delivering a pass across the penalty box but can't find a support player. France have certainly stepped it up since England's equaliser.
56min - France almost score right from kick-off! Rabiot finds himself in acres of space, before unleashing a shot and forcing a good save from Pickford to his left.
54min - ENGLAND GOAL KANE
Saka finds a bit of space on the edge of the box, deliveres a low cross to try and link up with Kane but a French defender gets in front of it. Saka makes another menacing run, and Tchouameni takes him out! Penalty! Kane lines it up and hammers home the equaliser!
50min - Upamecano is lucky to not lose the ball, before Saka fouls him. France give it to Mbappe and Henderson takes him down for a French free-kick - looked like minimal contact.
48min - Foden's corner is cleared, before the ball falls to Bellingham, who hits it sweetly on the volley and Lloris does just enough to parry it over for another corner.
Maguire gets up to win the header but Lloris gets down to claim the ball. France breathe a sigh of relief - good start for England.
46min - We're back underway! Bellingham goes down hard and Dembele is shown a yellow card for the challenge. He won the ball, but not without cleaning the English midfielder up.
HALFTIME
45+4min - England win the corner, perhaps their last opportunity before halftime. Foden takes, but it goes over everyone's head before France win it back.
45+1min - There will be four minutes of added time. Kane goes down and the referee isn't having any of it. France look to counter through Mbappe.
44min - Dembele does well to go low and win the ball back off Rice and kickstart a French counter. Griezmann can't keep the ball in the field of play and England win the throw-in.
42min - Mbappe looks to be fouled, but officials wave it off. England look to counter and Griezmann is shown yellow for a hard tackle on Walker.
40min - Griezmann takes the free-kick, it's short and Hernandez pulls it back to Mbappe, who strikes it hard but gets too under it and it flys over goal posts.
38min - England look to attack down the right wing, but the switch pass to Henderson just has too much on it and it goes out for a French throw-in. Henderson fouls Mbappe.
36min - France switch direction nicely, with Saka forced to clear the ball off of Herndandez as he chested it down. Griezmann fouls Foden just inside the English half.
34min - Saka goes down in a heap but the officials wave it off as France break. It was Hernandez's challenge. Bellingham wins the ball back off Griezmann.
32min - Rabiot fouls Kane to relieve some pressure for England. They've responded well since France's goal, but just haven't been able to find the back of the net.
30min - Foden delivers the corner, it falls to seemingly nobody with every player at a standstill before France scramble to clear it away. Heart in the mouth kinda stuff there for the French.
28min - England taking their time to play it out from the back, before Saka and Henderson combine well. Kane strikes and makes good contact, but Lloris leaps to his right to save.
26min - Kane goes down, but the officials say play on. VAR is taking a look, but rule Upamecano's tackle was fine. Looks like contact was JUST outside the penalty box.
24min - Walker makes a incredibly important interception to deny a French break with Mbappe in acres of space. Griezmann is causing a lot of problems in the midfield.
22min - France's press troubling England in the midfield, but they do well to get it wide to Kane, who just manages to get a shot off but Lloris does enough to parry it away.
20min - Saka cuts back inside and gets the better of Rabiot, before winning the free-kick just outside the box, to the right. Shaw takes it but it's straight to Lloris.
18min - FRANCE GOAL TCHOUAMENI
Upamecano does well to dispossess Saka and now France can counter. Tchouameni takes one touch outside the box, before unleashing a shot to find the bottom corner for the game's opener!
16min - Shaw goes shoulder-to-shoulder with Dembele to ensure the ball goes over the Frenchman's head for a goalkick. Both teams looking threating on the break.
14min - Rice applies pressure and wins the ball back against the run of play for Kane to capitalise on, but he doesn't have the pace to get away from the defenders.
12min - Griezmann's corner is comfortably headed away for an English throw-in. Dembele delivers a cross to Giroud who somehow makes contact, but it's straight to the keeper.
10min - Giroud does well to poke the ball towards a teammate, before Stones does just enough to clear a promising Dembele cross, with France then winning a corner.
8min - England scramble well to deny a French flurry, with Mbappe's ball causing a bit of concern for the defence, before they clear it away.
6min - England win a free-kick, Shaw delivers from the left but France head it away, before England are blown for being offside.
4min - Saka does well to rob the ball off Tchouameni, finds Kane with the pass on the right wing, but his attempted cross is blocked.
2min - Maguire looks for a long pass from the back and it bundles into touch for an England throw-in. We've already had a change of ball.
7:58am - Anthems done and dusted, we're just moments away from kick-off. We're in for a thrilling encounter between two historic rivals.
7:55am - Teams about to make their way onto the pitch. This game certainly does feel like a final. Winner will play Morocco for a spot in the final.
7:50am - Thank you for joining us this morning! After three thrilling quarter-finals, we head into what perhaps could be the game of the entire tournament.
Ki ora, good morning and welcome to Newshub's live coverage of the Football World Cup quarter-final between England and France at Qatar's Al Bayt Stadium.
Gareth Southgate's England cruised past Senegal in the round of 16, after finishing unbeaten and top of Group B.
Meanwhile, for France, the current World Cup holders were far too good for Poland in their knockout game but did suffer one loss in the group stages - albeit after resting their stars.
The winner of this morning's clash will play Morocco in the second semi-final, after they stunned Portugal to become the first-ever African nation to qualify for the final four.
In what could be the game of the tournament, whichever team comes out on top should become favourites to lift the World Cup trophy.
Lineups
England XI: Pickford; Walker, Stones, Maguire, Shaw; Henderson, Rice, Bellingham; Foden, Kane, Saka.
France XI: Lloris; Kounde, Varane, Upamecano, T Hernandez; Tchouameni, Rabiot, Griezmann; Dembele, Giroud, Mbappe.
TAB odds: England $1.92 France $1.77
