FRANCE 1-3 BRAZIL

Full time Good win for Brazil. Another step on the path towards rebuilding their public's faith in them and their credibility.

90+3 min Start the car. Get you coats. Call the cops. It's time to call it a day now. All the air has been let out of the balloon by these substitutions. Though it was entertaining while it lasted (for about 75 minutes).
90+2 min There'll be four minutes to fill up with spurious substitutions - and here comes Marcelo for Elias.
90 min Fernandinho replaces Luiz Gustavo. Lucky lad.
89 min Dunga takes off Roberto Fermino and gives Luiz Adriano a gallop.
88 min Now Fekir works himself an opening after Benzema clips a pass to the right edge of the box. Fekir takes a touch with his left foot, then another and screws a shot from 18-yards past Jefferson's right post.
86 min Oscar gets a rest. Souza replaces him after Fekir was brought down by Filipe Luis though the ref told the Lyon prodigy that he believed it a dive. That was poor judgment. How will he sleep?
85 min It's all gone a bit stale. France are trying but are being stymied by Brazil's disciplined tracking and firm tackling.
83 min Giroud comes on for Matuidi and for Brazil Douglas Costa for Willian.
82 min Enter Payet. Exit Valbuena.
80 min Benzema is determined to score to mark his captaincy and has two bites at a shot when the original is blocked. To no avail.
77 min Neymar cruises in from the left towards the D on a diagonal run after Schneiderlin gives up the ghost. His last touch of the dribble takes the ball over a divot that makes it sit up so when he shoots it lifts far higher than he expected and goes in a tame arc high over the crossbar. He curses the pitch and the man who mowed it.
75 min Fekir's contribution is to win a foul, wide on the left, that will give Valbuena a chance to spin in a cross. He takes it and plonks it over everyone's head and out for a goalkick.
73 min France's first subs - Kondogbia for Sissoko and Fekir for Griezmann.
72 min Well, well. Time for some changes, surely Didier?