Red DevilsBelgium-France, it’s a loaded poster. The French sports newspaper L’Équipe also does its part with a challenging front page. “Ready to fry.” There is no lack of self-confidence in the French.
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Tonight, the Red Devils look neighboring France in the eye in the Final Four of the Nations League. At stake: a place in the final and the associated big chance of a prize for the ‘golden generation’. But also a bit of revenge for that annoying defeat in the semi-finals at the World Cup in Russia three years ago. The Belgians lost 1-0 after an exciting game and saw the dream shatter.
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While Jan Vertonghen in HLN Sportcast already admitted that “something has stuck”, the French sports newspaper L’Équipe does not fail to hand out a jab at the Devils. “Ready to fry”, the newspaper headlines on the front page. To Hazard, De Bruyne and Lukaku to answer later on the field.
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It is not the first time that the French make fun of the Red Devils. After the first game at the last European Championship (3-0 win against Russia), analyst Gilles Favard – already in the L’Équipe studio at the time – stated that “the Belgians would soon be home to eat chips”. Those statements came back like a boomerang in the face of Favard and co, because ‘Les Bleus’ were already eliminated by Switzerland in the 1/8th finals at the European Championship itself.
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The Belgium-France match can be viewed LIVE tonight on VTM. The kick-off is at 8.45 pm, the preview in the studio starts twenty minutes earlier.
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The front page of L’Equipe:
THE TEAM
@lequipe
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