France v Uruguay, 06 July 2018

Kick-off: 5.00pm local France v Uruguay was Match 57 of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Refereeing team: Referee: Nestor Pitana (Argentina) Assistant Referee 1: Hernan Maidana (Argentina) Assistant Referee 2: Juan Belatti (Argentina) Fourth Official: Alireza Faghani (Iran) Reserved AR: Reza Sokhandan (Iran) VAR: Massimiliano Irrati (Italy) France had now reached the semi-finals of the World Cup for the sixth time. Only Germany, Brazil and Italy had now reached more. Raphaël Varane became the first player to score for France against Uruguay since José Touré in 1985. Four of the subsequent five meetings had been goalless draws. France become the second nation to beat three CONMEBOL nations at a World Cup finals; also Netherlands in 1974. Uruguay had now not won any of their last 17 games at the World Cup finals when they conceded the first goal (lost 14) since their first-ever meeting against France in 1966 at White City in London.