The Blues delivered a very good match for their entry into contention against Germany on Tuesday night in Munich. – FRANCK FIFE / AFP
From our special correspondent in Munich,
The France team has successfully entered this Euro 2021 by typing, Tuesday evening, a Mannschaft which has not been successful against the Blues since the 2014 World Cup. Ironically, it is our executioner at the time, the ghost Mats Hummels, who scored the
sole purpose of meeting a beautiful csc under the bar.
If the evening ends at best for the Blues, we still came close to the drama before kick-off when a microlight that was flying over the stadium crashed just above the bench of the France team, still causing two minor injuries. More fear than harm however, and we can therefore return to football to greet the French collective, which clearly confirmed its status as the big favorite of the competition on Tuesday evening.
Pogba, the real ones know
You know us, we’re not the type to throw flowers at each other (FALSE), but admit that we had a hollow nose when putting Paul Pogba, the ultimate safe guy during major international competitions, in the spotlight before the entry into contention of the Blues against Germany on Tuesday. As expected, the Pickaxe triggered warrior mode at the Allianz Arena, establishing itself directly as the boss and number one organizer of the game for the France team. His exterior of the left chocolate, at the origin of the center-shot of Lucas Hernandez and the goal against his camp of Hummels, our torturer of 2014, will remain as a model of the genre in a first period generally controlled by the Blues.
Rabiot reveals the Mannschaft
If the Germans were obviously not as picky as their supporters had sold us the days before the match, we almost believed they were right. Until Rabiot comes face to face with Neuer and finds the post (Grizou was the only full axis, Adrien …) with a strike from the left, which could have almost folded the match but which, instead, had the gift of shaking the gang to Joachim Löw. The approximately 2,000 French people present in the stands thus wet their Bermuda shorts on this cover of Gnabry, who came to flirt with the helm of a Lloris caught in the grip of the German public, we do not really know why.
Good, good and happiness
We told them enough about this first match, victorious but of a nameless uglyness against Australia in 2018, to salute the performance of the Blues Tuesday night against a much hairier opposition. The rare questions that we had after the two weeks of preparation, the Varane-Presko hinge, the full-backs (basically all the defense!), The understanding of the Grizi-Mbappé-Benzema space trio, quickly evaporated in the warm air of Munich.
If everything was not perfect – it never is the first time, we know it, you know it – the band in Deschamps clearly confirmed their status as big favorites of the competition and made us very, very wanting to quickly see them again. We will only regret these two pawns refused to Mbappé (66th) and Benzema (85th) for a story of centimeters, which would then have transformed an already so beautiful evening into an apotheosis. But here we quibble.
