SAINT ETIENNE: Defending champions France booked their place in the Confederations Cup semi-finals with a 2-1 win over a Japan side that will consider itself unlucky not to have come away with at least a share of the spoils here on Friday.
The hosts went ahead with a Robert Pires penalty awarded after Fulham's Junichi Inamoto pulled down Jean-Alain Boumsong in the box two minutes from the interval.
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