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France beats Argentina to reach the 1/2 finals at the home Olympics
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The host nation won the ¼ final clash against Argentina.

France won against Argentina 1-0 at Matmut Atlantique in Bordeaux and the host nation advanced to the ½ finals of the football tournament at the Olympics where they will face Egypt who beat 2-1 Paraguay earlier today.

The other ½ final at the Olympic Games will be between Morocco who trashed USA 4-0 and Spain who defeated Japan 3-0.

The home team needed only 5 minutes to score the opening goal in the match. Jean-Philippe Mateta netted in the 5th minute after an assist from his former teammate at Crystal Palace and Bayern Munich player from the next season – Michael Olise.

The result remained unchanged until the 84th minute when Michael Olise himself doubled the French team lead, but after a long VAR review, the goal was disallowed because of a foul in the build-up play. Because of that, the referee gave 10 minutes of additional time that gave Javier Mascherano’s side hope. However, the host nation kept the result that was enough for a semifinal spot.