We consider them aging and at the end of the cycle … The Croats gave a nice football lesson to the Blues this Thursday in Split. Pushed by its audience, the Croatian selection dominated the French team in the quarter-final first leg of the League of Nations on the score of 2-0. Taking a certain option on the final oven of the competition.
It was in the first period that Croatia was able to build its success, notably taking advantage of the generosity of a strangely released Konaté-Saliba hinge. Budimir (26e) and Perisic (45e+1) Thus were not asked to exploit these tricolor faults, ensuring a clear victory there and without burrs before the return to the Stade de France in three days.
To the good memory of France-Ukraine 2013
And yet Maignan with the goal did his best to delay the sinking, repelling from the first minutes (8e) A kramaric penalty awkwardly conceded by Konaté for one hand in the penalty area. Unasons a warning unfortunately to wake up the Blues ultimately appeared very harmless on the entire meeting.
The holder trio Mbappé-Dembélé-Kolo Muani has never really weighed on the game, and the entries at the forefront of the Barcola (64e) and olise (84e) did nothing. Of course, statistics with the final whistle are favorable to France (62% possession of the ball, 17 shots against 8, including 6 framed) but in terms of collective animation, the protégés of Didier Deschamps did not frankly convinced. They will have to release a historic match on Sunday evening in Saint-Denis to overthrow the steam. Like the famous dam back against Ukraine in 2013 and this 3-0 success which propelled the Benzema and others at the 2014 World Cup.
