The coach of the France Espoirs team did not like what he saw during the match against South Korea.
Two down for the Bleuets. Three days after a first defeat in Austria in a qualifying match for Euro 2025, the France Espoirs team followed up with a new friendly setback against South Korea. A defeat that looked like a correction that Thierry Henry, the boss of the Espoirs, hardly enjoyed.
“ The result is horriblelaunched the Bleuets coach at the microphone of La Chaîne L’Equipe after the meeting. We learn. There is something in football called being realistic, when you create so many chances and you don’t put them away, you give the opposing team the opportunity to punish you. » The French have in fact dominated the debates for a long time, multiplying opportunities without success.
Conversely, the South Koreans only needed half-chances to score the net three times, helped by the passivity of the French rearguard. “ We can’t afford to concede goals like that. The second and third are quite comicallamented the former Monegasque. Once again we gave away goals, even if the free kick was still good, the other two goals were avoidable. Now we will have to recover, get through the year, and we will be able to start with the under-23 group », he said in reference to the preparation for the Paris Olympic Games, which will not only concern the Espoirs, but all players under the age of 23. In this sense, the Espoirs did not score many points with their two performances against Austria and South Korea.
