How France overcame Portugal on penalties to reach Euro 2024 semi-finals

Anybody tuning into the primary half after the pulsating Germany vs Spain quarter-final was quickly introduced all the way down to earth, as Portugal and France performed out a largely underwhelming opening 45 minutes.

The groups’ mixed anticipated objectives complete at half-time was 0.15, the bottom at any match at Euro 2024.

Fortunately, the second half opened up a little bit. However anybody who discovered all that a little bit bit thrilling would have been mollified by further time which — like the primary half — was an elapsed time period wherein not very a lot occurred.

A penalty shootout was the inevitable conclusion and France scored all 5 of theirs, whereas Joao Felix missed for Portugal.

Tim Spiers, Liam Tharme and Amy Lawrence break down the speaking factors from the sport in Hamburg.