France manager Didier Deschamps keeps an eye on his players ahead of their Fifa World Cup semi-final against Morocco on Thursday night.
France take on Morocco on Thursday in a blockbuster FIFA World Cup quarter-final showdown as the largest and most logistically complex edition of the global showpiece enters the home straight.
After a month of spellbinding action that has yielded 280 goals across 96 matches, the expanded field of 48 has been whittled down to just eight teams dreaming of lifting the trophy at the final in East Rutherford on July 19.
France, arguably the outstanding side of the tournament to date, kick off the quarter-finals against African champions Morocco at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, in a highly anticipated rematch of the two teams' 2022 semi-final meeting in Qatar.
A defeat for Les Bleus would mark the end of the road for head coach Didier Deschamps, who is stepping down after a highly successful 14-year reign at the conclusion of the tournament. Deschamps, one of only three men to win the World Cup as both a player and manager, insisted on Wednesday that he is paying scant attention to his personal legacy.
