Q: After the defeat against Denmark (2-1), do you retain the consistency in the game or the regrets of the equalizer?
"The result brings regrets, even if our end of the match was much less coherent than what we had done for 80 minutes. There were good things and control, especially considering the changes. We have the regrets that we didn't realize our second goal chances, but we could have lost it also in the end because we conceded too many chances to this Croatian team I can't be completely satisfied but overall there is much more positive."
Q: How to explain this lack of concentration at the end of the match?
A: "There is also the merit of the opponent. We give them an opportunity with this penalty, and behind the euphoria is on their side, with the public, and there is immediately less balance. There there is also the experience, the experience... The starting lineup has less than 200 selections in total, whereas if I put Antoine Griezmann and Hugo Lloris, they alone have 200 selections. sorry, but there are bound to be fewer automatisms."
Q: Why did you decide to go back to a four-defender system?
A: "There were a lot of forced and forced changes. Compared to the eleven that started, my objective is always to put each player in the best position, and that was the case. The attacking animation, we can always l "improve. And defensively, we can have problems with three, four or five. It's not just the system. I'm not fixed, I don't want to give up on what we did before either. taking one point out of six, it's true that we are not placed in the best position. But these are also preparation matches, in anticipation of what awaits us at the end of the year. Hence the interest in having different things, different players, different systems, which must lead to more answers."
Comments collected at a press conference.
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