Germany 0 vs 2 France - All Goals Highlights

Eighteen years after facing Brazil at the Stade de France they face another Ronaldo in a final there. Only this one will probably be a little more effective than the one who sleepwalked through that game. If France defend like they did against Germany tonight and Griezmann is as ruthless again, they have to be favourites against Portugal. But don’t write off Cristiano. He always turns up. He’ll do something even when he appears to be doing nothing. As for Germany. They need to get busy manufacturing strikers. Thanks for all your emails and tweets. Sorry I couldn’t publish them all.

The Stade Velodrome is awash with the Tricolour. It’s everywhere, floating on a sea of noise. The French players approach the fans and join in a communal Iceland viking chant. And, you know what, after that gutsy performance it doesn’t quite seem as cheesy as you might think.
“So far this season Leicester have shown us that possession counts for little, Portugal showed that a team with a superstar and 10 others can triumph over a well-drilled team familiar with each other over a long period, after Iceland had seemed to prove the opposite earlier on. And now France are disproving the line about the importance of game management having been virtually shut out of the game for the majority of this match. I’m so disillusioned, I don’t know what to think anymore. Is football the new Hollywood where nobody knows anything?” wonders David Wall, perhaps wandering around lost in a maze.

Nicola Rizzoli blows his whistle three times and France are heading to Paris. Joy spreads around the Stade Velodrome as German bodies sink to the turf and France players hug one another after a brave, battling and potent performance.

90+4 min: Loris makes a quite wonderful, acrobatic save from Müller and Kimmich, who jointly headed a Kroos cross towards the France keeper’s left-hand post. His rubber left arm comes from nowhere to claw it out. The jig is up for Germany. Only a matter of time.
90+2 min: Cabaye is on for Griezmann, who is given a rousing standing ovation as he jogs off. He’s never played professionally in France. How odd. He’s feeling the love now, mind.

Cristiano Ronaldo Made a Toucing Gesture to Ball Boy Before the Win Over Portugal 2 vs 0 Wales - Euro 2016 semi-final

The softer side of Cristiano Ronaldo was on display before he returned to his usual destructive self to knock Wales out of Euro 2016 after he was mobbed by an over-eager ball boy inside the Stade de Lumieres in Lyon.
With Ronaldo and his Portuguese teammates preparing for their semi-final encounter against Wales – which they went on to win 2-0 thanks to goals from Ronaldo and Nani – you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Real Madrid forward would be a little on edge in the seconds before kick-off.
So when a ball boy rushed towards the 31-year-old and tried to take a selfie with him, Ronaldo looked a little uneasy.
However, the £80m forward duly obliged once the camera phone was ready to take the snap, and he even hugged the young boy before he sprinted out of view.

With the team then required to come together for the official squad photo before the action got underway, Ronaldo waved in his teammates and can be seen to tell somebody not to come over.
Too late. The ball boy rushed back into view, and as the Portuguese captain stood alongside goalkeeper Rui Patricio, he suddenly had another person lurking over his shoulder, for the ball boy had stuck around and even managed to sneak his way into the squad photograph.