The defeat of the French team against Germany brought the debate on Didier Deschamps back to the forefront. Even if it was a friendly match, the Blues are worried.
For his 150th match as France coach, Didier Deschamps probably expected better than the sinister copy delivered by Kylian Mbappé and his teammates against Germany. Beaten for the second consecutive time by the Mannschaft, who will play the Euro at home (June 15 to July 14, 2024), the Blues surely delivered one of the worst matches of the Deschamps era. Already mistreated after the World Cup in Qatar, the French coach knows football too well not to suspect that once again he was going to be costly regarding the style of play that he imposes on his team and his various tactical choices and even in its composition. The day after this fiasco in a meeting without major issues, Didier Deschamps was harshly judged. Starting in After Foot.
Didier Deschamps does not escape criticism
In the RMC show, it was Kevin Diaz who stuck to it. “ I can clearly see what is being said, Didier Deschamps is a winner, that he will still take us far in the competition. But I remember one thing, we lost the World Cup. And we lost the final in poor fashion against Argentina, even if there was an almost divine burst in the last ten minutes which allowed us to go into overtime. Against Germany, it’s not supernatural, it’s footballing. A few months ago, against this same German team we lost, although they have won three matches in their last eleven, including two against France (…) After seven seconds, we concede a goal and we had to activate a plan B, and we don’t do it. Didier Deschamps’ team has no depth of play, and when we meet a team that has better command of its subject, the Blues are in difficulty. And I remember that Griezmann was there during the final », remarked the After consultant, himself a former footballer. And he was not the only one to quickly attack the national coach after the defeat of the France team on Saturday evening.
The Blues will play, this evening against Germany, the 1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣th match of the 𝘿𝙞𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙧 𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙨 🙌 🇫🇷 era
97 victories ✅
29 draws 🤝
23 defeats ❌#FiersdetreBleus pic.twitter.com/e0zK4N0yr2— Team de France ⭐⭐ (@equipedefrance) March 23, 2024
In L’Equipe, Didier Deschamps gets a sad 3, as much as Jules Koundé and Marcus Thuram for example. “ Initial choices that paid off poorly, few solutions when he saw that his team was laborious and late changes without impact. He never gave the impression of being able to influence the match unlike the very creative Julien Nagelsmann », writes the sports daily. On the WFC YouTube channel, Elton Mokolo is also harsh with the French coach: “ Deschamps in terms of analysis, he is still in the dark. Never in his life will he tell you: “we got upgraded”, he always hits the mark. He always gives abstract answers, and when we ask him to be precise he will say: “this is high-level football. » After Argentina, when we spoke to him about the first 80 minutes, he replied “yes but we come back to the score”. He says he is primarily responsible for the result? But he does not say why he is primarily responsible (…) This defeat is a stain and it is worrying. » Knowing that on Tuesday France will face Chile in a friendly at the Vélodrome, the Blues have every interest in doing better, even if it will indeed be difficult to do worse.
2024-03-24 07:30:55
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