The 2018 World Cup has reached the closing stages.

It's been a fantastic celebration of football in Russia but now only four teams remain.

France face Belgium in St Petersburg on Tuesday night before England take on Croatia in Moscow on Wednesday.

The bookmakers have France as the competition favourites, while Croatia - who toiled to a penalty shoot-out victory over Russia on Saturday - are considered the underdogs.

“All I am going to say now is that we are in the semi-final and we have the chance to play in the final of the World Cup, so let’s try to do everything," said France boss Didier Deschamps at the pre-match press conference.

"Tomorrow we have to give everything to get there.”

Deschamps lifted the World Cup as captain in 1998 and is hoping to repeat the same feat as manager 20 years later.

Capello makes his prediction

Fabio Capello spent four years as England manager, leading them to the World Cup knockout stages in 2010.

The 72-year-old Italian coach has shared his opinion on Gareth Southgate - and has backed one nation ahead of the semi-finals.

“They have fast lads and a great manager [Gareth Southgate],” Capello said of the Three Lions, speaking to Gazzetta dello Sport, as per football-italia.

“Southgate understood that he’d go home with two central defenders, so he put three. He’s finally found a goalkeeper who saves: [Jordan] Pickford has reactions and positional sense.

“He [Southgate] is helped by a context like the Premier League in which clubs launch youngsters without being conditioned.

“The talent was there, but his intuition was [Harry] Maguire in a three-man defence, the choice of Pickford and managing tension.

“The final? France-England. And in that case I see England as favourites.”

Looks like it really might be coming home.

England eased to a 2-0 quarter-final win over Sweden after beating Colombia on penalties in the Round of 16.

Capello also reserved some praise for France, noting that Deschamps is fortunate to have N'Golo Kante in his team.

“[Kylian] Mbappé and Neymar are the successors of [Cristiano] Ronaldo and [Lionel] Messi. The Frenchman has power, speed, an eye for goal and can still improve. He’s ahead of where CR7 was at his age.

“Didier Deschamps? He was more of a defensive midfielder than an attacking one and he’s brought that humility to France.

“He’s lucky that he gets to play with 11-and-a-half because he has [N’Golo] Kante. He doesn’t just run, he’s intelligent and has positional sense."

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