Virginie Phulpin 07:24, June 14, 2022
Every day, the morning of Europe 1 returns to one of the sporting events which makes the news.
This Tuesday, Virginie Phulpin looks back on the new setback for the French football team in the League of Nations against Croatia.
Only a few months before the World Cup, it becomes worrying.
The French football team lost 1-0 last night against Croatia. Two defeats and two draws in 11 days, the Blues have already lost their Nations League title. Not very reassuring five months before the World Cup. So, is it serious doctor?
It requires additional examinations, but the diagnosis of this month of June is not famous.
The first cause, we know it, we've been talking about it for 10 days: fatigue.
Yes, players need rest.
Last night it was screaming at Karim Benzema and Kylian Mbappé who were on their knees, unable to make a difference when their team was going badly, which has nevertheless been their specialty all season.
There, apart from one or two flashes which made pschitt, nothing.
So fatigue, okay.
But the players opposite are also rinsed.
Luka Modric is 37 years old, he went to the Champions League final which he won with Real Madrid, and yet he looked much less flat than the Blues.
So the overmatch argument is not really convincing.
It is also true that there were important absentees,
wounded in the blue ranks.
But from there to offering this interstellar void in the first half, these 45 minutes felt like 3:20, there are limits.
What does it mean ?
If we remove a few important elements, the whole game of the France team disappears?
It was the perfect time for the second knives, to show that they could be real alternatives.
Missed.
Apart from Aurélien Tchouaméni, there are too many who do not have the level.
A lack of commitment and ideas, it gives a feverish defense and a midfield where we have forgotten the word creation.
This France team has no plan B. And that is what is worrying.
We cannot rely only on Mbappé and Benzema.
It doesn't make a team.
there are limits.
What does it mean ?
If we remove a few important elements, the whole game of the France team disappears?
It was the perfect time for the second knives, to show that they could be real alternatives.
Missed.
Apart from Aurélien Tchouaméni, there are too many who do not have the level.
A lack of commitment and ideas, it gives a feverish defense and a midfield where we have forgotten the word creation.
This France team has no plan B. And that is what is worrying.
We cannot rely only on Mbappé and Benzema.
It doesn't make a team.
there are limits.
What does it mean ?
If we remove a few important elements, the whole game of the France team disappears?
It was the perfect time for the second knives, to show that they could be real alternatives.
Missed.
Apart from Aurélien Tchouaméni, there are too many who do not have the level.
A lack of commitment and ideas, it gives a feverish defense and a midfield where we have forgotten the word creation.
This France team has no plan B. And that is what is worrying.
We cannot rely only on Mbappé and Benzema.
It doesn't make a team.
Apart from Aurélien Tchouaméni, there are too many who do not have the level.
A lack of commitment and ideas, it gives a feverish defense and a midfield where we have forgotten the word creation.
This France team has no plan B. And that is what is worrying.
We cannot rely only on Mbappé and Benzema.
It doesn't make a team.
Apart from Aurélien Tchouaméni, there are too many who do not have the level.
A lack of commitment and ideas, it gives a feverish defense and a midfield where we have forgotten the word creation.
This France team has no plan B. And that is what is worrying.
We cannot rely only on Mbappé and Benzema.
It doesn't make a team.
The counter-performances accumulate before the World Cup.
Do you remember a year ago, when the France team started its Euro with a victory against Germany?
It all seems far away.
7 small matches won out of 16 since.
To arrive at these two defeats and two draws in this League of Nations.
Not really in the standards of world champions.
Especially with Didier Deschamps, the clincher is that you can play badly, the main thing is to win.
The problem is that today this team is still playing badly, but they are no longer winning.
The Blues have five months to regain momentum and play. Nothing is lost in advance.
In any case, one must always be wary of the truth of the moment.
Managers will return at the start of the school year, the players will be rested, the coach has gone through a difficult period personally,
he also needs to cut to come back stronger.
So there is nothing to be totally desperate about yet.
You just have to question yourself deeply.
Finally, this world cup in autumn winter.
Because if it was played now, it is not the Nations League title that the Blues would have lost.