"It's the right time" ... DD puts the Blues in difficulty, but it is assumed

Les Bleus Umpamecano and Nzonzi in the duel during France-Croatia, September 8, 2020. -

• The France team beat Croatia on Tuesday night in the League of Nations.

• Also in this new system in 3-5-2, the Blues suffered a lot early in the match, before waking up and overthrowing their opponents. 

• The difficulties encountered against Sweden last Saturday and on this meeting are a necessary step for the new breath that Didier Deschamps wants to give to his team. 

At the Stade de France,

Despite Solna's difficulties, Didier Deschamps therefore chose not to stop there.

Normal, it would not have advanced the schmilblick to give up the slightest annoyance.

Especially when the stake is all relative.

The Blues have therefore again evolved in 3-5-2, Tuesday night, against Croatia.

And if the first half hour made fear the worst, the France team then showed that there could also be some good in this system.

"It's far from perfect but we have to go through difficult times, it's the right time to do it, he insisted after the meeting.

This system has advantages and disadvantages, it requires repetition for the players to acquire automatisms.

We are not condemning him, nor are we saying that it will be that one [at the Euro].

"

Let's talk about what went wrong, first, so it will be done.

The animation of the corridors was still sufficient, even if the two miraculous goals of the Blues at the end of the first period came from Mendy then Sissoko.

This diagram also requires that one of the two circles dares to create and project itself, which Kanté and Nzonzi did not know how to do for a long time.

As for the three central, Upamecano, Lenglet and Hernandez, they had all the trouble in the world to come out on the opponents in the right tempo, and they sometimes looked at each other, each thinking that it was up to the other to intervene.

To you, to me, well I'm going, or not, ah bah Brekalo he marked ...

“It is not necessarily harder [to defend three than four], but it is a question of adaptation with its partners.

We are not used to playing together, and we don't play like that in a club, explains Clément Lenglet.

But these matches allow us to work.

We must cover more space for three, because the sides are quite high.

It can be a danger, but also an asset when you're going to press, because you can take the opponent to the touchline.

"

"It will serve us in the analysis with the staff"

We can recognize in Barcelona a very good sense of analysis.

And euphemism, when he says he was not used to playing with his two evening acolytes.

It had never happened.

DD did not give them a gift by lining them up in this configuration.

Upamecano has just arrived, Hernandez was until now a full-back for France, and he is coming out of a more than complicated season with Bayern Munich.

But the coach needed to see.

“It allows players to be in action, a lot more than I normally do,” he said.

It will help us in the analysis with the staff.

"

Deschamps has indeed tested things on all floors.

Moussa Sissoko, who has nevertheless been carried around everywhere during his 62 selections, has innovated again with a role of right piston.

"It was new for me, and it was difficult at the beginning, as for the whole team," he debriefed.

I don't know if I will continue in this position, but I can play it, and I can do better.

It was better then, anyway.

Together, we played more forward, we tried more things.

"

The basics are still there

This is where we come to the benefits of this match.

Jostled by these novelties as much as by solid Croats, the Blues have found a way to add some seeds to their culture of winning.

Like in Sweden, but with more panache, all the same.

"We are not doing everything well but the state of mind is there, the intentions", appreciates DD.

Not to spoil anything, Griezmann, supported by a coach who knows he needs to chain games, found his way to the goal, before offering a penalty to Giroud, more than ever following Platini with his 40 selection goals.

“In the game, we have to do better with the players we have.

But we have a great state of mind, we make efforts for each other, adds Sissoko.

We show that we are a group, it allows us to chain the victories.

"

Listen instead to what Clément Lenglet says, again, when he is asked why it has again shifted to the French side despite obvious shortcomings:

“Because we don't give up, because we have a lot of technical quality, with forwards capable of making the difference individually and collectively when they start combining.

We suffered a lot for 30-35 minutes, we were eaten in the duels and the aggressiveness, but we managed to hang on, defend together, limit the damage and wait for our moment.

When they slowed down, we managed to sting them.

It is also one of the qualities of this team, to be effective in the weak times of the opponent.

"

Exactly what allowed her to be crowned world champion in Russia.

It is perhaps (surely) one of the objectives of DD, moreover.

Redistribute some cards, open doors for a little draft, and see if the foundations remain, anyway.

“We need to be put in difficulty.

It is not in June 2021 that it will have to be ”, he warns.

At least we know what to expect for the October games.

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