The French coach, depressed by the defeat, does not think about the future and leaves doubts about the arbitration: “There are dubious decisions”
Didier Deschamps was unable to win the second consecutive World Cup this Sunday. Argentina avoided it after a game in which their team was in the mud, came back to life, sank again and breathed again with three minutes left. But in the penalties came the crying, the pain. You had to process what happened on the field of the Lusail stadium. For this reason, he did not want to talk about his continuity at the head of France – whether he reached the semi-finals was in his power to extend or not – and left it up in the air whether he would remain on the French bench. . “The result is not in our favor, but I’m not going to answer today. I’m very sad. At the beginning of this year I will have a meeting with my president and we will inform them,” said a technician who did not want to talk about arbitration in principle. But later…
He not only watched Sunday’s game, but beyond. “I wish you hadn’t asked me this question. His performance has been what it has been and I’m not here to judge it. There are questionable decisions. Before this game, Argentina has had no advantage, but it has not had bad luck with arbitration either. Of course I do not detract from them,” said the Bayonne coach.
When asked about the physical state of his troops, Deschamps was clear during nearly 80 minutes in which his formation appeared defeated, sunk. It is that his side has not only had a plague of injuries, but also a virus that has hit several members of his dressing room during the Qatar championship, such as Rabiot, Coman and Upamecano. “The whole team has had to go through this situation. It has affected us physically and mentally. I had no doubts about the starting eleven, because they were, in quotes, in good shape. We had four days to recover, but one day less than them. There are no excuses,” the French coach launched.
He spoke on tactical issues to explain the substitutions of Giroud and Dembélé, author of the penalty that gave Argentina the lead, before the break. “It was for tactical reasons. I wanted to change the pace of the game and I don’t want to blame them. We wanted to go for a change of demarcation. In football everything happens very quickly, everything is possible and today we realized that it is. It was obviously a difficult match against an opponent with a lot of energy and aggressiveness. We didn’t play well for several reasons, but we were able to draw. That made us feel a bit worse. In the last minute of extra time, we had be able to win the World Cup (with Dibu Martínez’s wonderful save). Argentina has quality and aggressiveness. We don’t detract from them. It was brutal because we touched the trophy up close.
Source: La Verdad
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