These are strong words that Didier Deschamps and Kylian Mbappé held in the locker room of the Blues after the defeat against Spain (4-5), Thursday evening in Stuttgart. Despite a catastrophic scenario, La Roja having led 4-0 then 5-1, the coach and the captain of the French team insisted on the positive sides of this frustrating semi-final of the League of Nations.
“You have what to be disappointed, the GarS, first reacted “DD”, faced with logically slaughtered players. Obviously we did things well, very well, that we could have done even better. And we did things worse, for having taken all these goals. Opposite there is quality but you have proven that you too had it. We could have done them even worse. »»
“But it is also important to have pushed to the end and not to have given up. It must serve usadded the tricolor coach, who wanted to be reassuring. There, there is less experience and we met what is one of the best teams, so I take this into account. I do not take away this desire that you had, but we could have made them tremble a little more. »»
“We were picked up”, Mbappé empties his bag
Same bell at Kylian Mbappé, who then spoke against the group. “We had ten minutes at each half-time and we were picked up by two goals with each half. But I tell you that we have not done shit todaydropped the Real Madrid striker. There, we have the balls, we see all black, but we have created a lot of situations. »»
“Most of the time, we were in the opposing camp, we played well, we played clean. Technically, it was squarehe chained. Afterwards, when you have holes in matches like that, you get caught. Having the balls, yes it's normal, because we wanted to go to the final and we are competitors. But everything is not to be discarded, I tell you. »» Place Germany now on Sunday.
