Paris Olympics: Spain And France Compete For Gold In Men’s Football Spain and France are going to compete for men’s football gold in the Paris Olympics 2024. After winning the semi-final on Monday night, the two teams reached the final.
Spain won a 2-1 comeback over Morocco in the first semi-final.
In the 37th minute of the game, Soufien Rahimi scored a penalty and gave Morocco the lead. However, Spain scored two goals in the second half, and Permin Lopez performed well. Fermin scored the equalizer for Spain in the 66th minute. After that, Juanlu Sanchez, who entered the field as an alternate player after Permin’s pass, scored a goal in the 85th minute to give Spain the lead. That goal became decisive and Spain won 2-1.
In the other semi-final, host France overturned a one-goal deficit and defeated Egypt 3-1 in extra time. After the match ended in a 1-1 tie, the match was extended to extra time.
After the scheduled 90 minutes were tied, the game was added to extra time of 30 minutes.
In the second minute of extra time, Egypt’s Omar Fayed was sent off after receiving a red card, and Egypt was reduced to ten players. France took advantage of Tatyas. Mateta scored his second personal goal for France in the 99th minute to lead 2-1.