Here we go again. Four years after the intoxication of this summer of 2018, the French team of Didier Deschamps is going to offer us the French people the right to dream of a new night out of time, and too bad if it takes place in the coldness of the ‘winter. World champion before the holidays, we have known worse as a gift.
A contained joy, the already Blues focus on Argentina
We don’t redo the post-match as it is classic now. Battle cries, “Freed from Desire” spit out the boxes in the changing rooms, return to base camp for a little fiesta, and sleep late with its share of sleep in and recovery the next day. But according to Antoine Griezmann, the Blues did not fall into excessive euphoria. They are aware that nothing is done and want to put all the chances on their side to arrive fresh against Messi’s Argentina on Sunday. “After the game against Belgium [en demi-finale en 2018], I was crying… There, I am more concentrated, I am already thinking of Sunday, “said the man with 18 lungs, Wednesday after the match. We like this mentality.
Differentiated training program
From a sporting point of view, there too nothing very original. The holders of Morocco carried out a cleaning based on cycling or jogging with the physical trainer Cyril Moine and treatments with the physiotherapists. The substitutes and those who had entered the game were treated to a more intensive session: warm-up, toro, game reduced to five against five with a joker player. The thirteen other players participated in an hour-long opposition against Al Markhiya (Qatari D1). They won 4-0 with goals from Marcus Thuram in the first half and early in the second, Eduardo Camavinga and Jordan Veretout.
Rabiot and Upamecano in, Coman out
On the bench against the Atlas Lions due to illness, Dayot Upamecano was present in training on Thursday. He is also back in the group, which therefore two good news, Adrien Rabiot took part in jogging with Cyril Moine’s band. On the other hand, Kingsley Coman is the new victim of the small viral syndrome which seems to have taken up residence at the Hôtel des Bleus. The Munich player, who did not come into play because of this against Morocco, stayed at the hotel “as a precaution” in the words of the staff. “His condition does not inspire particular concern as to Sunday’s final,” we are told.
The program of the day
Two players will appear at a press conference on Friday before joining the group for collective training at the Jassim Bin-Hamad stadium. The session will be fully open to the media.