Didier Deschamps lros from France-Ukraine, March 24, 2021. -

Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP

This is not a novelty, it is even one of its main characteristics: when it meets a team that parks the bus hoping for a miracle, the French team has all the trouble in the world to get out of the mess.

School case again Wednesday evening, in a meeting where the Blues gave the impression of being able to make the Ukrainians dance for half an hour before falling into mediocrity, without idea or dynamism.

After the opposing equalizer, they could have played another two hours without being able to score.

Wrong operation

“Obviously the result does not satisfy me, there is even disappointment.

This is the type of match where we had the opportunities to take cover in the first period, and after half an opportunity they found the equalizer, regrets Didier Deschamps.

Ukraine came to defend well, it defended a lot.

I had never seen them in that organization.

I'm not criticizing Shevchenko's choice, that proves him right because he takes a point here.

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The Blues lost two, them, from the start of these qualifications at the 2022 World Cup and it is not a good operation.

There is still a long way to go, but solutions will have to be found to pack this kind of match because with Bosnia, Finland and Kazakhstan, this is likely to happen often.

"The intentions, we had them"

“It would have needed a better game, more offensive players who could go one-on-one on the sides.

We have to watch, try to improve, warns Antoine Griezmann.

We will learn to play against a system like this.

The next meeting, Sunday in Astana, will be a first response.

And the opportunity to repair this accident.

“Accident is a big word,” DD retorts.

Creativity is more complicated with an opponent who has these predispositions.

That we are not at the top of the freshness, I did not have to wait today to find out.

The intentions, we had them, in terms of freshness and dynamism, we were not at the top.

The coach has already warned.

He will largely reshuffle his starting lineup for the second game.

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