Three victories and a draw: the results of this first gathering of the Zidane version of the French team are positive to say the least. And despite the draw conceded at the Stade de France against Italy (1-1), Friday, the Blues occupy first place in their Nations League group and will have the opportunity to validate their qualification during their next match against the Nazionale, on November 12.
On Monday, Zinedine Zidane’s troops nevertheless came close to corrections. Because if the French team finally won 4-1, it was still trailing 1-0 at the start of the last quarter. Consequence of Dodi Lukebakio’s opening score shortly after half an hour of play. The French, however, dominated the debates but were too imprecise in the zone of truth like Ousmane Dembélé who increased the number of ball losses.
And for Zinedine Zidane, the problem is obvious. “We have to occupy the penalty area. We missed that in almost all four games, except maybe at the end today. We missed that when there are overflows, crosses, small deep passes. But it will come little by little, he pointed out at the microphone of TF1 at the end of the meeting.
“It’s clearly an area of progress”
“We need to improve on the verticality, on the speed to be put in the last 20, 30 meters, it is clearly an area of progress over all of these four matches”,
he also underlined, adding: “There were difficulties in the first half, but that’s part of the game, of the matches that you can have from time to time. It’s good to rectify the situation, that’s what we did. »
“We managed to have an extraordinary second period but I include everyone,-he continued. We didn’t have a very bad first half, that’s not it. We missed a lot of things, we started well, then we always missed those last few meters where if we don’t get into rhythm it’s complicated, but then we managed to turn the match around and that was good. »
