Europe 1 with AFP 6:20 a.m., September 26, 2022

The Blues failed to win last night against Denmark (2-0) in Copenhagen.

Two months before the World Cup in Qatar, this defeat does not help the French troops to motivate themselves, while part of Didier Deschamps' team is affected by a wave of injuries. 

France were crushed 2-0 by Denmark on Sunday in Copenhagen, and only owe their stay in the top flight of the League of Nations to the defeat of Austria, a meager consolation for world champions not very dashing two months from Qatar.

The Blues were certainly weakened by a cohort of injured before the shock against the "Danish Dynamite", attractive semi-finalist of the last Euro, but they had enough reserve to hope to silence the noisy Parken and his some 36,000 red supporters and White.

Alas, Didier Deschamps' men suffered in the face of opposing battering, even sinking before half-time in front of Kasper Dolberg (34th) and Andreas Skov Olsen (39th).

It was a very sad last outing for the Blues before the big departure for Doha, where they will cross paths with the Danes on November 26 for their second World Cup match.

Fortunately for them, Luka Modric's Croatia went to win in Vienna at the same time, which sends Austria into League B of the League of Nations, the equivalent of the second division, rather than France which counts one more point.

"A Shipwreck? I Don't Think"

The campaign of the Blues had gone wrong in June, after four games without a win, and the victory Thursday against Austria (2-0) will have been only a sham, a rare thinning in the grayness.

The black series is rare for the Deschamps band, as dark as the cascade of injuries that accompanied this return to school, from Paul Pogba to N'Golo Kanté, via Hugo Lloris, Presnel Kimpembe, the brothers Theo and Lucas Hernandez , Kingsley Coman and Karim Benzema.

"A shipwreck? I don't think so. It's simply because we had a lot of chances. When there are no ingredients, it doesn't matter what the system is. In terms of duels, we were weak. We made technical errors on the raises too. Obviously, it is a French team which is young, which does not yet have, for the most part, the experience of the high level. Tonight, it is to be in contact with reality and what will be waiting for us in two months”, said the microphone of the TF1 channel, the coach of the Blues Didier Deschamps.