The expression of the French star Kylian Mbappé does not express satisfaction.
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The sports daily L’Équipe was published on Tuesday with the large inscription “Crushed” on the front page. “It was also unbelievable, majestic, extraordinary, desperate, and in the end Les Bleus and their fans were left with only eyes to cry,” sums up L’Équipe, in whose key passages, according to the paper, coach Didier Deschamps’ team was unable to take a single proper action. he was lost in his own rehearsed situations. It was so only logical that the Swiss punished them and in the last ten minutes of the basic playing time, they eliminated the two-goal deficit.
The Paris Match daily states that the French national team did not lose the championship even once in the regular season, but also won the entire tournament only once. From the whole match, despite some successful moments, everyone will remember only the unchanged penalty of Kylian Mbappé at a key moment, writes Paris Match.
The favored French lost the EURO in the round of 16
According to Le Monde, Les Bleus crashed into a Swiss wall. The paper writes that it does not understand what happened during the match, and according to the author of the article, the national team probably does not yet. “How could the favorite team of the tournament, praised for their solid performances, be allowed to roll over like this?” asks Le Monde.
Gunner Karim Benzema once again proved his shooting qualities.
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Le Figaro based his analysis of the match on the marking of individual players in the team. Benzema deserved seven points out of ten possible as the best among the rated footballers, who turned the score with two goals. “What to read to him? Nothing at all. The author of two goals in important moments of the match, with brilliant inspiration in the 57th minute and an experienced and clever goal in the 59th minute. He fulfilled his task and thought that he showed the others how to do it,” he writes about Benzemovi Le Figaro. According to the paper, Benzema is the only one who escapes the “sinking ship”.
According to Frédéric Hermel, a commentator for the RMC sport station in Madrid, coach Deschamps lost control of the team and lost authority. The commentator points out that Kingsley Coman refused to be replaced at the end of regular time. According to Hermel Zidane, the new coach of Les Bleus will be 100% ready. “I remind you that he left Real Madrid. He is not waiting for anything else,” Hermel pointed out.
The crushed Mbappé apologizes to all of France. The fenced penalty sealed the fiasco of the favorite
People are also researching what Paul Pogba told the coach 15 minutes before the end of the match. According to some, he assured him too confidently that France would win.
The uniqueness of the match was underlined by the audience statistics published today, 16.3 million spectators watched the TF1 station on the French-Switzerland round of 16. The penalty shootout was watched by 80 percent of all viewers who had their television on at the time, BFM TV said.
EURO 2021
The European Football Championship, which was originally scheduled to be played a year ago, it starts on June 11 and ends on July 11. EURO is hosted by eleven countries, the Czech national football team is in group D together with England, Croatia and Scotland. The championship finale is played at the legendary Wembley.
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