With
Michael OliseMike Maignan is the other great craftsman of the qualification of the French team for the semi-finals of the League of Nations. During the penalty shootout won against Croatia,
The porter of AC Milan was decisive twice.
A performance that the player trained in Paris Saint-Germain had already achieved on July 5, against Portugal, in the quarterfinals of Euro 2024. In the history of the Blues, no one had yet managed to win two penalty shootouts.
Maignan and Tabs, everything except a lottery
Mike Maignan proves that this exercise is not a banal lottery. “It is a psychological duel. We arrive at the end of a match where the players ran a lot, the lucidity is not too there. It is important to take up a lot of space in order and to try to dominate, says the Milanese. The shooters have a big goal. We have to take all the tools we have. It is in the head, in the eyes, a duel un-confer. It is an exercise where I have a lot of success. I hope it will last “he reacted to the microphone of TF1 after the qualification for the last square of the League of Nations.
For his part, Didier Deschamps is proud to be able to count on such an effective goalkeeper in this exercise. “The players of the French team know very well that Mike is very efficient. He has a power relationship with the opposing shooters. He has this quality, so much the better. It is a technical gesture. It is a goalkeeper who is performing on this session. Through this session, we owe him qualification. It would have been annoying to miss it on this session because we had the opportunities to have a greater gap before ”explained the national coach, to whom he has often been criticized for not working on fire sessions.
