• The France team beat Finland (0-2) on Tuesday night for their last qualifying match for the 2022 World Cup.

  • In this long-closed meeting, the entry of Karim Benzema, author of the opening scoring, changed everything.

  • His agreement with Kylian Mbappé, author of the second goal, is more and more attractive over the matches.

We were all starting to fall asleep peacefully on our sofa, between boredom and the Helsinki cold that made us shiver even through the screen.

And then the boss came in.

Karim Benzema, launched by Didier Deschamps in the 55th minute of Finland-France on Tuesday night - at the same time of Kingsley Coman - changed the face of this padlocked match.

The infernal duo

Jostled since the end of the first period by the locals, the Blues have magically returned to play in stride.

First possession, Griezmann finds Digne, who leaves the ball to Karim.

Nearby, but the tide has turned.

Nine minutes later, bingo.

The Madrilenian relies on Mbappé, who gives him a heel in the middle of the race.

His shot, deflected by a defender, hits the mark.

Released by the entry by his elder, the Parisian then took charge alone of folding the match a quarter from the end thanks to a dragster acceleration concluded by a candy in the small opposite net.

The Benzema-Mbappé pair struck again. Authors of six of the eight goals at the Park on Saturday, they illuminated a game that did not ask for so much. The Blues were already qualified, DD had logically chosen to run and all that could very well have ended with a 0-0 fallen into oblivion in two days. But no. These two don't want to miss the slightest opportunity to have fun and make up for lost time. Not to displease the coach, obviously.

“It's a formula that works, relishes Deschamps. They should not be separated from the others, but they have this technical relationship. It seems easy, because they have this technical capacity, the complementarity too. Karim has a formidable efficiency and Kylian confirms the talent he has. The combination of qualities and talent allows the French team to be even more efficient. For the opponent, it's complicated. "

And not just when it's called Kazakhstan or Finland.

Belgium and Spain also tasted love at the Nations League Final 4 last month.

One goal each in the semifinals, the same in the final, pack it is weighed.

Benzema scored nine goals for the France team in 2021 when he only returned in June, Mbappé seven, in addition to six assists.

Hellish statistics, to which we must associate Griezmann, also scorer nine times over the calendar year.

"We have proven that we can be both collective and decisive"

Before turning to the next World Cup, we can not help but think when we see the strike force of the Blues in recent weeks in the wake of this duo that the Euro might have gone differently if the Real Madrid striker had returned a bit earlier. The person concerned has also provided an element of response after Kazakhstan. “I said in previous games that it took a little time, that there would be a time when it would come in. We have proven that we can play two [with Mbappé], be both collective and decisive. "

But what's done is done, and now it's

all-in

on Qatar.

“Considering the team we have, it must be in our head, did not hide Benzema just after the meeting.

We will prepare well and always try to have goals and so it goes through the World Cup, of course.

Mbappé does not say anything else.

“A World Cup is a dream, a goal, a unique chance to be able to play in a team that can win it.

We're going to go there to win it, ”said Kyky after his quadruple on Saturday.

Real's WhatsApp overheating?

From the bench, Deschamps surely thinks no less.

But he knows there is still a long way to go.

"I'm going to put them in ice cubes so that they are cool," DD laughed at a press conference on Tuesday.

Until then, the two will also surely play at the same club.

We are ready to bet that Florentino had to flood the WhatsApp of Madrid leaders again in recent days.

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