The Blues impressed the football community during this break, but not Raymond Domenech. In the show Greg’s Teamthe former French coach refused to give in to the general indignation, recalling that Deschamps’ men had not faced big names with Brazil and Colombia.
“What did we impress the whole world with? In two friendly matches against Brazil, which is 5th (from the South American pool for the World Cup), who has a wooden team, which lost three days before against Croatia (four days later in reality, editor’s note). We have to put things into perspective, we are two months away from the competition, there are still a lot of things that can happenbelieves Domenech. We didn’t beat any strong teams. Colombia had nothing at all, they were swinging deep, I have rarely seen a Colombia team so poor. They were good in the last quarter of an hour, they were trying to build, otherwise they were catastrophic. There are around ten teams that can claim (to the World Cup coronation)… Well, not the English, we agree. But it is not these two matches which should place us in the position of future world champions.”
