The Blues trained one last time at Clairefontaine before taking off for Munich. – FRANCK FIFE / AFP
Monday June 14
In their golden bubble for two weeks now, the Blues were starting to find the time long, they told us. Good thing, it’s time to leave the tranquility of the Clairefontaine estate to go and rub shoulders with the real world near Munich. But before switching definitively to this France-Germany that we expect casually since November 30, 2019, date of the draw for the group stages, let’s take a look at what happened on Sunday at the castle.
End of face-to-face press conferences
It will have been nice while it lasted. After two weeks of almost daily press conference, whether in Clairefontaine, Nice or Paris, the time has come for the media to distance themselves from the Blues. We should not go and infect players one day from France-Germany, although our last PCR tests were negative (CHAMPION MON FRERE). From now on, everything will therefore take place in video, starting with Monday’s pre-match press conference with Didier Deschamps. Note that, in its infinite kindness, UEFA will still allow us to attend the first fifteen minutes of training for both teams at the Allianz Arena.
Mbappé does the show
For the last press conference in the flesh, the communication service of the Blues had chosen Sunday to send Kylian Mbappé. The Parisian was in great shape and gave us a pretty tasty scene with a reporter from The team, which implied that the player was more likely to drop his ball to Benzema (or Neymar in club) than to Giroud. Blunt response from the player: “I think it’s a bit unhealthy because we try to say things without saying them. Basically you mean that I don’t want to pass Giroud? It is respectful, it’s your choice, but I tell you that these are two different profiles. “
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Rüdiger where the praise of dirt
The recent Champions League winner with Chelsea warned: facing the supposed aesthetes of The french team, Tuesday, the defenders of the Mannschaft will have no embarrassment to play it the old fashioned way, with the 18 studs as a calling card. “You also have to be dirty, not always nice, nice, nice, and not always try to get by with good football. Against players like that, we also have to send a message… and early. The warning of “Dirty Rüdi” did not seem to find much echo in
Mbappé : “Everyone fights with their weapons, ours is to play together, to play our football. If their weapons are that, well they will play on it ”.
The program of the day
After a final training behind closed doors at Clairefontaine, Sunday afternoon, the Blues will take off from Paris towards München on Monday morning. After having dropped off the bags at the hotel, they will head to the Allianz Arena for a final training session at 4.30 p.m. Before that, Deschamps will present himself in conf with his captain Hugo Lloris on the strokes of 3:45 p.m., instead of 7:45 p.m. as initially announced in the program (which will force us to type a sprint at the airport so as not to be in a rush. , thanks guys !).
