Olympic men’s football: Mateta and Olise send France to final

France will play for a golden badge against Spain successful nan men’s shot successful beforehand of a location crowd aft beating Egypt successful nan semi-finals aft extra-time.

Les Bleus scored doubly successful extra-time done Jean Philippe-Mateta and Michael Olise to spot disconnected a valiant show from nan Egyptians.

Mahmoud Saber opened nan scoring successful nan 62nd infinitesimal for nan Pharoahs and were heading for a daze triumph until Mateta scored his first of nan crippled pinch 7 minutes of normal clip remaining.

The existent and erstwhile Crystal Palace stars past made nan decisive quality aft Egypt defender Omar Fayed was sent disconnected 2 minutes into extra-time.

Stay for Thierry Henry’s ceremony 🤩🤩

Jean-Philippe Mateta puts France up precocious connected successful nan semi-final!#BBCOlympics #Olympics #Paris2024 pic.twitter.com/qDr6GpJk5K

— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) August 5, 2024

Spain scope final

Spain person nan chance to adhd an Olympic golden to their Euro 2024 triumph aft coming from down to hit Morocco 2-1 successful nan semi-finals.

The 2020 metallic medallists went down aft apical scorer Soufiane Rahimi converted for his sixth extremity of nan Games.

Barcelona’s Fermin Lopez cancelled that retired successful nan 2nd half erstwhile he pounded connected a loose shot to settee nan tie.

Juanlu Sanchez past scored nan victor 5 minutes from time, drilling location to nonstop La Roja into Friday’s final.

🏁 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘!!

Santi Denia’s squad ne'er mislaid religion and it paid off!! ✨

💪🏻 What a team, what a family! Now let’s spell for GOLD astatine #Paris2024!!

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— Spanish Football (@SpainIsFootball) August 5, 2024

The bronze badge lucifer betwixt Egypt and Morocco takes spot connected Thursday.