Matchless night.
No coaches who have been fired and no new referee.
There were no headlines from the soccer World Cup last night.
The night between Wednesday and Thursday was the first match-free World Cup day since it started on June 11. 27 days of football in a row was interrupted by a night off. But fear not! On Thursday evening, the World Cup quarter-finals finally get under way.
Now, of course, only 8 matches of the World Cup remain, out of a total of 104.
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Then the quarter-finals begin
France face Morocco in the first quarter-final, kick-off at 10pm. Lead heavy for Morocco is that their top scorer Ismael Saibari is injured and misses the meeting.
Read more about Morocco’s injury concerns here.
Then Spain-Belgium awaits on Friday, Norway-England on Saturday and Argentina-Switzerland on the night of Sunday. The final will be played on Sunday 19 July.
Yes, otherwise there certainly wasn’t much more…
