Spain will face a France that is a far cry from the team that won the 2018 World Cup and also from the one that reached the global final in 2022. It retains the consistency of the past but has lost most of its ‘punch’. . The plan of Didier Deschamps It is about good defense as a ‘sine qua non’ premise, but in its efforts to protect its rearguard it seems to have forgotten to attack as expected of a team with offensive potential when it comes to names.
It certainly has a lot to do with the lack of freshness of some of its troops. Antoine Griezmann He is not going through, by any means, the best moment of his career and Kylian Mbappé, whether because the mask bothers him or because he has reached the end of this season without fuel, he shows himself more like a vulgar soccer player than what he is: the best in the world. Of Ousmane Dembele it is better not to talk, because it is highly unpredictable and does not respond to any kind of analysis, and Marcus Thuram This is a textbook ‘yes but no’.
Having said all of the above, if this France reaches the semifinals it will be because they are invincible at the back. In Careful under the sticks and an unmistakable quartet formed by Koundé, Upamecano, Saliba and Theo Hernández from right to left, scoring a goal against France is no easy task. To the above we must add Kanté, Tchouaméni, Rabiot and Camavingawhich seems to be everywhere.
It’s not a brilliant France, but it doesn’t pretend to be either. It is not an invincible France, but it knows how to win. It is a France of heads and tails.
Source: La Verdad
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