french pride and confidence have grown with every win in this tournament, the chant ringing across paris after their semifinal win, we are in the final! one game now stands between france and glory. 11 men who carried the hopes of this nation to qatar are within sight of carrying the trophy back home. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. here are the all important details. kick off is at 1500 gmt. and if you want the full story of all of the qatar world cup ups and downs just go to our website bbc.com/news or check out the bbc app. also watching us. it is only weeks to christmas, around the world billions of people will
french pride and confidence have grown with every win in this tournament. the chant ringing across paris after their semifinal win, we re in the final . one game now stands between france and glory. 11 men who carried the hopes of this nation to qatar are within sight of carrying the trophy back home. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. that is the view from france. earlier i had a chat with argentine monica barragan, who lives in the usa. i wanted to know how it feels to count down the hours to the game when she is thousands of miles from home. i m feeling very happy, very excited. i don t know how am i going to do to be able to sleep tonight. most likely, i m going to be up all night. well, yeah, because of course this is an early kick off for you, albeit 7:00am in the morning los angeles time. how confident are you feeling about the game? i am feeling very confident,
messi as argentina s. in the bar next to the paris ground, there is anxiety ahead of today s game. the french know how messi plays football too. i am super tense because we saw what argentina did and they have a mission, it is to win. but france has a mission, too win twice. so, does france have what it takes? translation: of course. kylian mbappe, for sure. l he s younger, he s faster, everything is possible. translation: it is going to be a battle because it is the only title messi doesn t have. we can tell they are nervous. they want to win the world cup, we want to win the world cup, too. the baguette is winning! they chant. french pride and confidence have grown with every win in this tournament, the chant ringing across paris after their
we want to win the world cup too. oh, the baguette is winning, the baguette is winning! - all sing. french pride and confidence have grown with every win in this tournament, the chant ringing across paris after their semifinal win, we re in the final . one game now stands between france and glory. 11 men who carried the hopes of this nation to qatar are within sight of carrying the trophy back home. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. and argentinians are getting ready for the final and pinning their hopes on the success of captain lionel messi. our south america correspondent katy watson has more there is a lot of emotion in buenos aires ahead of the big game. there is also a lot riding on the final. the happiness of our nation. i have spoken to people on time and time again they say this is an
we want to win the world cup too. oh, the baguette is winning, the baguette is winning! - all sing. french pride and confidence have grown with every win in this tournament, the chant ringing across paris after their semifinal win, we re in the final . one game now stands between france and glory. 11 men who carried the hopes of this nation to qatar are within sight of carrying the trophy back home. lucy williamson, bbc news, paris. in saturday s third place playoff match, croatia beat morocco by two goals to one. croatia opened the scoring after seven minutes with this header from josko g vardiol