A protagonist World Cup, a farewell to the disrespectful field in the 41st minute of the first half. So Didier Deschamps decided for Olivier Giroud, thus leaving space forward for Kylian Mbappé: then decisive in the final of regulation and overtime to bring the result back first to 2-2 and then to 3-3, extending the match to penalties. It was certainly not like this that the Milan forward would have wanted to close what was (like for Messi) his last World Championship review with the Les Bleus shirt, but for the Rossoneri there was nothing else to do.
Giroud, bottle thrown to the ground in anger at the change
After being replaced together with Dembelé (for Thuram and Kolo Muani), Giroud didn’t sit down immediately. Dark in the face, he left without ever looking the coach in the face, then making a gesture of annoyance: that is, with all his anger, violently dumping a bottle of water on the ground in front of the French bench. To then suffer in the second half and momentarily rejoice at Mbappé’s goal, which sent the game to penalties, which Argentina then won. However, the great World Cup of a striker remains who, at 36 years old and with his goals, dragged France to the final. In this World Cup only Mbappé in France has scored more goals than Olivier, winning the title of top scorer of the tournament.
Pellegatti furious with Deschamps: “He could have waited for the 45′ for the change”
On the YouTube channel, the former Mediaset and Rossoneri journalist, Carlo Pellegatti, went mad with anger at Giroud’s substitution: “What an unjust humiliation towards a great professional, towards a player who gave everything to be able to play for the World Cup , who broke Henry’s record to become one of France’s most consistent players, in addition to the usually immense Mbappé,” he said. “France were totally at the mercy of Argentina in the first half; what does Deschamps do? He doesn’t wait for the 45th minute like all the coaches in the world if they have to change, but in the 41st minute of the first half he removes Dembelé and removes Giroud”. And again: “If the player had a knee problem then you waited for the 45th to let a new player, instead he replaces him in the 41st minute, exposing him to public ridicule all over the world, pointing him out as the culprit of a largely insufficient performance. It was a gesture that Giroud didn’t deserve.”
Pellegatti: “Giroud didn’t deserve this”
Pellegatti then concludes: “Reserving such a humiliation for a player who helped you get to the final… I’m indignant, Giroud didn’t deserve the humiliation, he didn’t deserve this free punishment. And despite this, in the second half he was booked on the bench for protesting, it means that he was there with his teammates, he has overcome this shame that the coach reserved for him ”.
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