It is a completely crazy but terribly frustrating match that the French team lived against Spain, Thursday evening in Stuttgart, in the semi-finals of the League of Nations. If the Blues won the Battle of Possession and obtained more opportunities than La Roja, they finally bowed a small goal (4-5) after being led 4-0 then 5-1.
Kylian Mbappé, who remained on seven consecutive games without scoring with the selection, for his part consoled himself by putting an end to this scarcity, on penalty (59e), and by making a rather convincing copy. Not enough to fully satisfy Jérôme Rothen who, on RMC waves, once again reminded the order of the Real Madrid attacker.
“I think he has to do more in the collective, in team balanceloose the consultant. He has often been criticized for not defending. I will not ask him to run towards our goal, to recover balloons and after making differences 80 meters higher. I just say that he must turn more to the collective than just about his person. »»
Deschamps error with Mbappé
And the ex-player of PSG to add: “It's the same with Real Madrid. When you see his stats, he puts more than 40 goals in the season, so we can't say he has a bad season. On the other hand, when you look at collectively, what is expected of a player like him is that he makes players stronger by his side, that he is a benchmark at times. »»
For Jérôme Rothen, Didier Deschamps should never have appointed him captain of the Blues after the 2022 World Cup. “I think giving him the armband was a mistakehe says. With the faults he committed in September, October and November, there was the opportunity to withdraw him (the Capitanat) and to let him focus only on his game. ”
