• The Bayern Munich winger was preferred to Benjamin Pavard in a right piston position which is overdue in the France team

  • Deschamps continues to doubt the relevance of the Bavarian in this position against more huffy teams despite his excellent match against Kazakhstan.

At the Parc des Princes,

Kidneys, liver, lungs, pancreas, there is nothing left for Maksat Taykenov.

The poor man had to bequeath all his organs after a game of Doctor Crazy went wrong with Kingsley Coman.

As expected, the Bayern winger, available once every 36th of the month for the France team, brought Dante's hell to the Kazakhstan defense, and worse.

Positioned as an overflow winger more than a defensive piston, the King plowed the right lane until there was no soul left in front.

An essential dribbler ... when he's not injured

We counted ten overflows in the first half hour, half of which after hooks to make you dizzy, with delicious center included.

Two assists for Mbappé, it's almost badly paid when you think about it.

Let us add to the case the primordial role of Jules Koundé, Sherlock Coman's dear Watson.

In this role of right axial of a three-way defense, the former Bordeaux player offered an unprecedented complementarity with the Bayern winger, not hesitating to launch it several times in depth on laser passes that do not attempt not since a long time Raphaël Varane, well wedged as at the barber with his slippers and his pipe when he puts on the tricolor tunic.

Kingsley Coman tonight:


- 9 dribbles attempted / 6 successful


- 85 balls touched / 73 in the opposing camp


- 9


crosses

/ 4 successful

- 2 assists



Yes it is Kazakhstan, but it feels good.

- Thomas Bonnavent (@TBonnavent) November 13, 2021

The duo had the merit of taking advantage of the risky choice of Taygat Basufino, the coach of Kazakhstan, who had asked his men to tighten the lines in the axis to "prevent passes inside the game in the central part" , offering boulevards to the Blues on the sides, Théo Hernandez also offering two assists on the left.

The $ 100,000 question, now: this Coman straight piston option is far more exciting than Pavard's ice skate and crosses controls at the third post, but can it be held up when adversity escalates, in big terms? competition?

"It is an option which depends on the balance of power"

DD didn't really pretend to believe it at a press conference: “It's an option that depends on the balance of power. Today it was not a risky option at all, I imagined that we would have a lot of the ball and that Kingsley would spend a lot of time in the opposing half of the field, even if he had to defend once or twice, this that he did well elsewhere ”. What else. "Today, he had very good feelings, we know his qualities of center, percussion and all that he can bring us in the offensive field".

Should we see in this "Today" a form of lasting mistrust of the staff vis-à-vis a player who goes back and forth between the field and the infirmary since he arrived in selection, in 2016? Or a lasting incompatibility with the chosen gaming system, as Deschamps implied in his confession interview after the Euro? A bit of both, no doubt, without ever being called into question the intrinsic qualities of the Bavarian dragster. The last time we looked into his case, during the September truce, we interviewed Patrick Guillou, an attentive commentator on the exploits of the French in Germany;

“In the France team, we always have what we deserve.

Compared to his intrinsic qualities and what he shows at Bayern, there is a taste for unfinished business about what we see him doing with the Blues.

We would like to see him perform over time, but there is always an injury, a blow that can reduce it, and that leads to a kind of fatalism.

The next day, the FFF announced in a medical statement that Coman was leaving the group because of calf discomfort.

Fingers crossed not to receive an email like this before Finland.

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