A purge. This is how to define the meeting of the 5th day of the group stage of the League of Nations between the French team and Israel (0-0). Under pressure before challenging Italy at San Siro next Sunday, the Blues finally delivered a more than disappointing performance against the selection of Ran Ben Shimon. Unable to find the fault on the edge of the opposing surface, Bradley Barcola’s teammates have, despite everything, ensured their qualification for the quarter-finals but will have to achieve a feat against the Nazionale to finish at the top of their group. Enough to nourish many regrets on the French side…
Questioned at the microphone of TF1 after the meeting, Jules Koundé thus displayed his great frustration after the indigestible copy returned by France. “There is frustration, anger, a bit of everything, we did not have a good match, we did not put in what we needed to. I don’t know if we can be happy with the qualification after the match we just had, it’s the only positive point of the evening. We have to do better and whatever happens in Italy we will have to if we want to win, it’s an opponent who has more quality than the one we faced this evening, we will have to use more intensity, more aggressiveness and realism towards the goal”cursed the Barcelona side.
Blues frustrated, Deschamps annoyed!
A speech similar to that given by Ibrahima Konaté, a few moments later. “There is enormous disappointment and frustration. We dominated the match, we had a lot of chances to win it. Even though we are qualified, we should not be proud of that. On the pitch, we were extremely lucky to win, we lacked efficiency. We should not be proud of this match. We have to be happy to be qualified, it’s a good thing, but we have to learn from our mistakes”outbid the Liverpool defender.
Relaunched on the performance of his players – who tried their luck 22 times without ever finding the fault – Didier Deschamps also expressed his annoyance despite the qualification of his men. “In actual time over 90 minutes, I don’t even know if we played an hour. Realism? This is the time that could have been lost… From the moment there is 0-0, it reinforces them in this defensive work. If we had opened the score, it would not have been the same for them.noted the French coach, inevitably frustrated by such an outcome. Second in their group with three points behind Italy, the reigning world vice-champions will now have to show a completely different side to the San Siro…
