Portugal fans are celebrating now sensing victory.
Patrocio is brilliant today showing his goalkeeping skills.
Eder scores a brilliant goal at the 109th minute. France fans are stunned. Excellent from Eder. Portugal 1, France 0. Will it be celebration time for Portugal?
A good free kick and the ball hits the goal post and a close shave for France at the 108th minute
Koscielny gets a yellow card. Dangerous for France now as Portugal takes a free kick just outside the box
We have so far witnessed some excellent football from both the sides. Both the teams will now apply the attacking football in the final 15 minutes.
First 15 minutes is over and another 15 minutes to go. Will it be France or Portugal in the next 15 minutes or will it go to shoot-out.
Portugal's corner now at 103rd minute. Double save from Lloris. WOOOOOOOOh a close shave for France
Another close shave for Portugal, France's Pogba and Griezmann combined together but wasted the opportunity at the 100th minute
Carvalho gets yellow card. three Yellow cards in just two or three minues
Matuidi gets yellow card at the 97th minute
Raphael gets yellow card.
95th minute: Pepe's header went wide even though it is off-side
First half of the extra-time is about to begin. France fans are backing their side.
It is extra time. A goalless full time for France and Portugal
Another excellent chance and miss, the ball hit the goal post and wow what a close shave. Gignac is the man.
Injury time 3 minutes
89th minute: France's Gignac and Griezmann try to break but the ball went straight to Patrocio
84th minute: Another excellent save from Patrocio. He is proving to be a hurdle for France.
81st minute: Nani had a strong kick towards the goal, but just wide
80th minute: Excellent save from Lloris, no no no it is two time save from the France goalkeeper, kept his cool.
Excellent pass from Mario but went in vain for Portugal, Portugal had a better ball possession in the second half.
At the 75th minute : Excellent save from Patrocio.
It is all happening at the Portugal goal side. Three or four misses continuously from France.
72nd minute: France misses another opportunity
In the second half, Portugal plays some attacking football than France.
At the 70th minute, a free kick for France.
66th minute: Griezmann misses a golden opportunity, the header went just wide and wow!! what a miss from France.
France tries to break the shackles, but excellent defending from the Portugal team.
At the 62nd minute, Portugal's Mario gets the yellow card
At 59th minute: Griezmann tries to shoot the ball but safely taken by Patrocio
At the 56th minute: Excellent save from France defender
Pogba hits a wide shot at the 54th minute
At 52nd minute: Another miss by France. Excellent save from Patrocio
Portuguese on the attack but in vain at the 49th minute
It will certainly be an interesting second half of the Euro 2016 finals.
Host nation France and Portugal were goalless at half-time of the Euro 2016 final.
The Real Madrid forward had attempted to play on with a heavily bandaged knee after hurting his left knee in a heavy challenge from France's Dimitri Payet.
But after one acceleration midway through the first half Ronaldo signalled to the bench that he could not carry on and could not hide his despair as he was replaced by Ricardo Quaresma.
Even before Ronaldo departed, France had the majority of possession and almost took the lead with a header from Antoine Griezmann that Rui Patricio brilliantly pushed away.
Moussa Sissoko blasted over the crossbar in France's other main chance of the half.
Good try from Portugal at the end of the first half but the ball went wide.
Nearing the end of first half, still goalless. Portugal despite the absence of Ronaldo are showing their skills with Nani leading from the front. France had a better ball possession in the first half but all went in vain due to the excellent goalkeeping from Rui Patrocio.
Possession in the first half: France 55 per cent and Portugal 45 per cent.
Portugal is attacking now and tries to put behind the Ronaldo's absence in the Euro 2016 finals.
Patricio is showing his goalkeeping skills for Portugal, saving everything that comes his way
38th minute: Excellent display of football from Nani and an opportunity missed by Portugal
At the 34th minute, another excellent save from the Portugal goalkeeper Rui Patrocio
Portugal is playing positive football despite the absence of Cristiano Ronaldo.
At the 30th minute, France on the attack but once again missed.
Again Ronaldo is down, they are calling for stretcher. He is in pain and agony. Ronaldo ties the captain band to Nani. There will be no participation of Ronaldo further in the finals. Great loss for Portugal at the crucial juncture.
Good shot from Payet and excellent take from Portugal goalkeeper.
Another golden opportunity missed by France at the 22nd minute.
Ronaldo is back in the centre.
At the 18th minute, Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo is injured and being guided away by his medical team. is it advantage France?
France players are not letting Portugal forwards Ronaldo and Nani to play aggressively.
Dominating football from France while Portugal plays it defensively.
Another opportunity for France, excellent save from the Portugal goalkeeper at the 10th minute.
Griezmann misses a golden opportunity at the 7th minute.
In the fifth minute, Portugal's Nani misses an opportunity.
Centre-back Pepe returned from injury and William Carvalho from suspension as Portugal made two changes to their starting XI for Sunday's Euro 2016 final against France, who were unchanged.
Real Madrid defender Pepe missed Portugal's 2-0 semifinal win over Wales with a thigh injury, but declared himself fit on the eve of the final and returned to the team in place of Bruno Alves.
Holding midfielder Carvalho took over from Danilo for the final at Stade de France after missing the Wales game due to suspension.
France coach Didier Deschamps kept faith with the team that beat Germany 2-0 in the last four, with six-goal tournament top scorer Antoine Griezmann lining up in support of striker Olivier Giroud.
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