Kylian Mbappé missed his international window. Although present with the French team to face Italy and Belgium in the group stage of the Nations League, the Real Madrid striker seemed elsewhere and largely missed his subject. Transparent during the defeat against the National (1-3), he started on the bench against the Red Devils and his entry into play in the sixty-seventh minute did not bring much more to the success already built before that by his teammates (2-0). Didier Deschamps’ management of the player also got people talking. For some, the fact that he was on the bench against Belgium was not a coincidence or a consequence.
Some might have thought that the coach had somehow decided to punish his captain after his disastrous match on Friday night. But for Bertrand Latour, things would be much simpler than that. Didier Deschamps had a roadmap for managing his squad and he would have simply stuck to it. This is what the journalist explained on Monday night on the channel The Team. ” About Mbappé, he knew before the gathering. (…) And the same thing for Griezmann. “For the observer, the opposite would be a decision that is simply unprecedented under the Deschamps era.
It was planned
” If Deschamps punished Mbappé from his match against Italy, then we are in a situation that I have never experienced since I have been following Les Bleus. I am not saying that it is not good, I am just saying that it is new. » Also following the French team for the same media, and present Monday evening at the Groupama Stadium in Lyon, Giovanni Castaldi echoed his colleague’s sentiments, recalling the words of Didier Deschamps at the start of this last gathering.
” It was expected that Kylian Mbappé would not start the second match. It was not something that was decided in relation to the defeat against Italy, it was planned in advance. He spoke at length with the Real Madrid medical staff that he knows well, he told us this officially in a press conference on Monday and it was confirmed before the match against Italy. » End of debate.
