This is always what the Blues will not have. Already qualified, the world champions are relieved, this Wednesday evening (9 p.m., TF 1) against Portugal, of the weight of the fiasco, but not of the consequences of the result. It is still the rest of their life in this Euro which is played against the reigning European champion who, for his part, advances completely dizzy. One of the favorites of the competition may fall this Wednesday evening, at the same time as the Blues would take the lead of the group, in a double-faced revenge.
Raphaël Varane’s partners would return the final of Euro 2016 lost permanently in the closet of bad memories while offering themselves a more affordable future in the round of 16 of the Euro. In this joint and reversible test, the Blues will have everything to gain and Portugal a lot to lose.
Success would allow them to quickly avoid Belgium, another friend with a past to settle and scores to settle. Even if it means getting angry, it is better to postpone the moment, to continue to move forward lightly, dreams in your head. The Blues are preparing to go through happy days, in search of new confidence, with the return of one-off matches, this horizon that they promise to all passers-by on their Milky Way to the summits.
Mbappé still looking for a first goal
The Blues first have things to prove to themselves before annoying Portugal, even if one does not go without the other. Cristiano Ronaldo will remain 2016 European champion no matter what and the men of Didier Deschamps world champions. But this is the moment to assert its status, to measure eye to eye, to determine the thickness of the shell.
After a success against Germany and a draw against the Hungarians, the real Blues seemed more alike the first time than the second, but it is Portugal who will really tell us if the 2021 version would not have been released with more. flaws than we had imagined.
Portugal, more dimensioned than five years ago for a final victory, will at least resist because a draw could save it and it is in this respondent that this team of France will have to be gauged. After two one-goal matches, only one by herself, she must now show more, put an end to the debates around Karim Benzema one evening when Antoine Griezmann will once again seek his best place and Kylian Mbappé his first goal in a Euro – he necessarily think about it.
With a few corrections in his defensive base, faced with mobile, lively attackers with a totally different profile from the Germans and the Hungarians, Hugo Lloris’ partners will run after this soul that imprints their style, this extra spirit that identifies them well. more than all styles of play.
France is strong when it behaves as a team, tidying the egos and the difficulties under the carpet of its collective panache. Nobody will be European champion this Wednesday evening at 11 pm but the two selections will provide information on their ability to be or even to be it again. It’s at least a group finale and she already has a fate that will change.
