You almost have to pinch yourself to believe it.

Even though the Poles will do everything to push us to an uncertain penalty shootout where Czeslaw Michniewicz's men will count on the inimitable talent of Szczesny in this area (already 2/2 in this World Cup, 26/87 in career), the Blues did not particularly work on this eventuality this week in training.

If the order of the shooters is already secretly established, revealed Griezmann without saying more, the Blues did not do a special session on this subject, if only in the form of a last training challenge, confirms

the team

of the day.

The "fault", so to speak, of Didier Deschamps, who is one of those who consider the exercise to be a lottery: "Taking penalties in training without pressure, while having fun, and drawing match, with the pressure of the result and the public, it has nothing to do, ”he said already at Euro 2016. However, some French players who we are almost sure will stick to it if we have to get there, Griezmann style, or Mbappé, are going through some difficulties in the exercise of recent times (6 failures out of the last 8 for the Atletico player).



Against Switzerland, the first five French shooters had not trembled before Mbappé's failure.

It was rather Lloris who drew criticism, caught on the wrong foot on each Swiss attempt.

The tricolor goalkeeper then explained that he had each time dived on the supposedly favorite side of the shooter without ever aiming straight.

An experience that makes him put the work to be done upstream into perspective: “With analysts, we all have the same elements.

We realize that there is a part of randomness: the shooters are able to hit anywhere.

We can have certain indications, but it can happen quite the opposite”.

Let's just hope that this willful forgetfulness isn't a subject at the end of the afternoon.

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