A year after the defeat of the French team against the Albiceleste, a gray area still weighs on the state of form of certain players of the France team.
This December 18 marked a painful anniversary for the French team. A year ago, Didier Deschamps’ men saw their dream of a double collapse against Argentina at the end of a match with a scenario as magnificent as it was cruel. Overwhelmed for more than an hour of play, the Blues had in fact turned the situation around in just two minutes, making Messi doubt the band before losing during the penalty shootout.
One year later, The Team returned at length to the progress of the final, recalling the replacement of Adrien Rabiot “flushed, sick, injured” at the start of the extension then that of Raphaël Varane, also weakened and exhausted. “This virus, which was not Covid, will cast the shadow of paranoia over certain Blues, who will ask themselves, long after, this question that they did not dare to officially formalize: why at this moment of competition, why only them? “, writes the sports daily.
“The entire group has been subjected for a while to a situation that we have tried to manage as best we can. I do not have the answer. Compared to the players who started the match, I had no worries. These are elements (to be taken into account), but not excuses”will be content to blow Didier Deschamps at the end of the meeting.
The famous English journalist Piers Morgan, who returned to the forefront a few weeks earlier thanks to the interview with Cristiano Ronaldo, was not going to pull any punches when discussing the subject. “It was not a virus, the French team was deliberately poisoned”, he wrote during the meeting while the Blues, apathetic, were on the brink of collapse. An accusation which would provoke numerous reactions.
