The World Cup knockout phase heads towards quarter-finals kicking off on Friday in Qatar. Below are the teams who have so far advanced into the last eight.
The quarter-final matches will be played between December 9 and 11 with matches - 8:30 PM IST and 12:30 AM IST. | Football News.
The quarter-final matches will be played between December 9 and 11 with matches - 8:30 PM IST and 12:30 AM IST. December 10: Morocco vs - Portugal - Al Thumama Stadium (8:30 PM IST) The tournament still has defending champions France well and alive along with three other former title winners and two first-time quarterfinalists in Japan and Morocco.
England are through to the final eight, where they will meet reigning world champions France, but not before we see how pre-tournament favourites Brazil fare.
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Here are the eight remaining teams in the competition: Brazil; Croatia; Argentina; Netherlands; Morocco; Portugal; England; France.
France are currently the bookmakers favourites and odds of 7/5 to come out on top, meanwhile England are slight underdogs at 2/1. Les Bleus then followed that up with an excellent 3-1 victory over Poland in the round of 16. Morocco topped a strong group featuring Croatia, Belgium and Canada - impressively they have kept three clean sheets in their opening four games and only conceded one goal. Argentina are the bookmakers favourites to win the tie with odds of 6/5. Croatia have odds of 15/2 to win the game in 90 minutes. [Croatia qualified for the knockout stage ](/sport/football/world-cup/croatia-brazil-world-cup-quarter-final-tv-channel-date-time-team-news-3944724)as runners-up after one victory and two draws in their opening three games.
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“I think we still have not seen the best of Kylian,” France forward Olivier Giroud said of his teammate. Harry Kane, the leading scorer at the last World Cup, finally got off the mark in England’s 3-0 win over Senegal. Everyone’s playing with bandages, everyone is trying to raise their level of play and mentality,” Regragui said. Brazil, which had Neymar back in the lineup after an ankle injury, is there as well. The Moroccans, who also became only the fourth African team to reach this stage, beat the 2010 champions in a penalty shootout. “They make you want to go out and celebrate.”