• The France team has successfully entered the competition in this Euro 2021, with a great victory (1-0) against Germany, at the Allianz Arena in Munich.

  • Logically elected man of the match, Paul Pogba delivered an XXL performance in the middle of the field.

  • If it remains on such standards for the rest of the competition, the Blues have enough to lick their chops.

From our special correspondent in Munich,

At least you can't say you weren't warned. Even if we did not take too many risks either by choosing to put Paul Pogba in the spotlight before this France-Germany shock, which kept all its promises and a little more on Tuesday night, the Blues midfielder has when even managed to exceed our most extravagant expectations. In an Allianz Arena very happy to find the public and the fervor, the future ex-Mancunien came to remind the whole world what a great football player he was.

Three years ago, in Russia, he had missed his subject in opening before gradually increasing in power and ending in apotheosis under the Moscow flood. But hey, you know, it was Australia. "There it is direct Germany!" “, He had proclaimed last Thursday at Clairefontaine, with the malicious smile of one who knows he has planned to break everything. And that's what he did on Tuesday night. The figures speak for themselves, as much as this title of “man of the match” announced by the speaker of the Allianz Arena and greeted by the cheers of the 2,000 French supporters present in Munich. 78 balls touched, the best total on the French side, 20 duels won, that is to say eleven more than the second best French Benjamin Pavard, twelve balls recovered, three times more than Rabiot, on the second step of the podium,and three interceptions. Do you want a treatment?

Hummels felt compelled to wrap up the masterpiece

But if the figures have their relentless precision for them, they do not say much about the impression of ease given off from the stands by Pogbadaboum throughout the meeting, of this technical ease on the threshold of insolence, nor of that touch of the ball which makes happy the balloons (and the teammates). As on this cake of the flat of the right foot distilled from the outset to Karim Benzema, whose chest control a tad too long will not have made it possible to transform into a goal. But the best was yet to come, with this diagonal opening caressed from the outside of the left foot and the origin of Mats Hummels' csc. It would have been criminal on the part of the German central defender not to end this action out of time with a goal. Have we ever seen Leonardo da Vinci render a painting half finished?

Paul Pogba's exterior is due to be displayed at the Louvre as of tomorrow morning.

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We could just as easily have talked to you about his leadership on the field throughout the game, to replace, encourage, harangue his teammates until the last minute, but let's stay on the game if you want to because it is finally there that he was the most impressive against the Germans. When he is in this physical and mental form, one wonders what can stop him. Not Antonio Rüdiger anyway. Tired of trying with his head and feet, the one who had promised to dirty this France team at a pre-match press conference ended up going with the canines. Can we just blame him? That the one who never wanted to bite his pal of five too strong for him, throw the first stone at him. We would have liked very much to have felt Pogba after this gesture, hideous, of spite,but in Covid football, mixed areas are in the process of extinction.

In Blue, the collective above all

We then fall back on the declass of Mancunien at the microphone of M6 after the meeting, without mentioning the episode of the bite.

Asked about his masterclass, the former Turinese kicked in touch preferring to focus above all on "team performance, that's the most important.

"" Without them, really, I might not have been so efficient because they helped me, they all pushed, we all made efforts and this victory is really for everyone, a- he modestly declared.

Not just those who are on the pitch, those who are on the bench and those who were in the stands supporting us ”.

This is perhaps also what makes the Pioche such a special person in the France team.

When, in Manchester, the media and the supporters accuse him of playing the superstar and often wanting to do too much, in Blue the midfielder never puts himself forward and works above all for the collective.

What is certain is that after such an introduction, his future Portuguese and Hungarian opponents must gently start to make their hair gray.

One would have to be heartless not to understand them.

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