Euro: the bankruptcy of the Blues is collective!

The France team stops in the round of 16 of the Euro, eliminated by Switzerland on penalties, after a failure by Kylian Mbappé.

But for Virginie Phulpin, it is important not to blame this terrible disillusion on the sole striker of the Blues, it is a collective bankruptcy. 

We came out completely washed out of this round of 16, eyes as haggard as that of the world champions brutally descended from their pedestal.

And pointing the finger at Kylian Mbappé for his missed shot on goal would be just one more mistake to conclude an evening where the shortcomings were legion.

Let's not look for a scapegoat, bankruptcy is on every level in this unrecognizable French team.

She spent a half time backwards and one wonders again this morning what fly stung Didier Deschamps so that he lines up a defense with three players. A tinkered system, wobbly, unknown to the Blues, which made them foil and left avenues for their opponents. This first half is first of all the defeat of the coach. But again, not only. With a little freshness, with a little envy, the players could have, should have, sank less.

And then in the second period, when Lloris, Benzema and Pogba put everyone in the right direction, when this France team regained its colors of world champion and led 3-1 with 10 minutes from the end, this are the players all alone, all of them, who have pierced the boulevard of shattered dreams.

The pragmatism and the solidity which had crowned them three years ago have given way to the approximation and the fragility which precipitated their downfall.

The Swiss knew how to take advantage of it, we will not forget them, but it is first of all the Blues, all the Blues, who lost their Latin and their football on Monday evening. 

Kylian Mbappé is not the only responsible, for sure, but he is still the symbol of this failure of the Blues 

A symbol yes, but just a symbol. Kylian Mbappé missed his shot on goal, but the France team should never have found themselves in this position. So he's part of the failure, but he's not the failure on its own. In fact, what we expect from Kylian Mbappé is that he is the hero of this France team, every time. And there, he got his feet caught in the carpet, like the others.

It is true that he has not scored a single goal in this Euro, and that necessarily leaves a taste of unfinished business for this potential Golden Ball.

He had the opportunity to send the Blues to the quarter-finals last night, and he did not transform this opportunity.

We saw Kylian Mbappé fail in this competition, and we're not used to it, that's what can disturb us again this morning.

But above all, let's not accuse him of all the evils when it is the whole of the France team which suffered this Euro more than it played it.

Kylian Mbappé was not the hero we expected, nor should he be the scapegoat for our disappointments.

The future will be played out with him, around him.

When we have digested this collective bankruptcy.