The Blues trained one last time in Bayern’s lair on Monday night. – FRANCK FIFE / AFP
Wednesday June 15,
Hallelujah my sisters, hallelujah my brothers, after four endless days watching the other teams launch their European championships, it’s finally our turn youhouuuuu! The Blues took off from the small Vélizy-Villacoublay airport on Monday morning and arrived less than two hours later on German soil, in the stifling heat of the Bavarian capital. Here is what should not be missed from the news of the world champions, just to be patient without tearing your hair before the match against the Germans.
The journey of the Blues to Munich ????✈️ #FiersdetreBleus pic.twitter.com/9mN96ymlJZ
– France team ⭐⭐ (@equipedefrance) June 14, 2021
A conf, which conf?
Match watch obliges, it is Hugo lloris who accompanied Didier Deschamps on Monday afternoon in a press videoconference. Finally, if we can really call it a conf … We do not know if the link sent by UEFA had raised an RTT, still it is that the exercise turned into ordeal, most of the questions of journalists not being never reached the ears of the Lloris-DD duo. So much so that the captain of the Blues, usually so posed, ended up getting annoyed. “It’s terrible their thing,” he slipped to the coach. If that’s any reassurance, we weren’t going crazy behind our screens as well. Hopefully it’s not like that throughout the competition.
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We are between us, we tell each other everything. Knowing for weeks that the training of the Blues in Munich was scheduled for the evening, Monday, we had booked a flight to arrive in Bavaria around 3 p.m., which left a good margin to get our accreditation and join the Allianz Arena in stride. Bad luck, everything has been brought forward to… 3.45 pm. Result, we can not even tell you what the last training of the Blues looked like. 20 Minutes, first on the scoumoune, it’s not bad as a new slogan, isn’t it?
The 26 are fit but in the end, only 23 will be left
Between two inaudible questions and a connection bug, the coach still managed to slip us a little reassuring info before the shock against the Germans. Not enough to dance the gavotte either, we calm down, but know that the 26 French players are well suited to appear on the scoresheet Tuesday night. No last minute glitches, therefore. Which makes us think that we should know on Tuesday the identity of three unlucky ones who will climb in the stands before the start of the match.
Our wet finger pronouncement: Leo Dubois, Marcus Thuram and Clément Lenglet.
Munich don’t get carried away (REALLY)
We had heard that Munich was not overflowing with enthusiasm for this (geographically) broken Euro, but the reality clearly exceeded expectations. Very few posters in the streets, not many people on the terrace at match time and Munich residents more focused on what they were going to eat in the evening than on the shock of the French. “Here people are not very excited by the Euro, even if we play at home, said Klauss, we met at the airport. It must be said that we’ve fallen asleep for three years watching the selection play and we don’t really believe in our chances this summer, ”he told us. Hopefully the lucky 14,500 will be more enthusiastic at the Allianz Arena.
The punchline of the day
Heard on the plane among a small group of French senior-type supporters: “I know Germany well”, our row neighbor tells us. “Oh well, do you come often? », We ask him. “The last time was in 1972 for the Munich Games”. Heart on him.
The program of the day
Seriously?
