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The Guardian - UK
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Martin Belam (now) and Tom Davies (earlier, for a bit)

World Cup 2022: European pair face South American giants in quarter-finals – as it happened

Gibbon Kent and his pack choose food from one of the boxes depicting flags of Croatia and Brazil at Zagreb Zoo.
Gibbon Kent and his pack choose food from one of the boxes depicting flags of Croatia and Brazil at Zagreb Zoo. Photograph: Denis Lovrović/AFP/Getty Images

OK, we are fifteen minutes away from kick-off, so I am going to wrap things up here, and you should get yourself over to Scott Murray’s MBM which is warming up nicely …

There are some more quotes from Morocco coach Walid Regragui via AP. First off he said he hoped that Portugal don’t start with Cristiano Ronaldo tomorrow: “As a coach I know he’s one of the best players in history and so I’d be delighted if he didn’t play.”

He also said “We haven’t got carried away by the euphoria. We’ve just surprised a few people and surprised a few algorithms who expected Belgium to get through … and expected Spain to get through. We are not satisfied with where we have come so far.”

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