Small form for Sylvain Ripoll and his French teams in this year 2021. After the inglorious elimination of the Hopes in the quarter-finals of the Euro in the category, at the end of May against the Netherlands (2-1), the Blues Olympics sank in their first game on Thursday in Tokyo. Certainly, with the refusal of the Ligue 1 clubs to release the players, the double-hat coach could not line up the team he wanted, but from there to make such a nasty copy against Mexico (1-4 ) …
The French Olympic team lose to Mexico 🇲🇽🇫🇷
🔜 Next match Sunday (10am) against South Africa #MEXFRA # Tokyo2020 pic.twitter.com/f0z28vkeyE– France team ⭐⭐ (@equipedefrance) July 22, 2021
“To compete, we should have played a very big game, it was not the case,” admits the Breton technician, “disappointed with the result as well as the content”. “The score reflects the difference in level well,” he continues. We have to do a lot better, we did not recover the ball well, we did not know how to get in the direction of the road, nor find the attackers. “Autoflagellation, that’s all well and good, but Gignac, Thauvin, Savanier and company will have to get back to work quickly so as not to lose their illusions from the second group match, Sunday against South Africa (the third will be place Wednesday against Japan).
“To digest this disappointment”
“The first thing is that now we will have to digest this disappointment, launches Ripoll. We must try to reproduce what we did against South Korea [victoire 2-1 en amical] and what we perceive on certain sequences during training. “Because what we saw against the teammates of” Memo “Ochoa and the silky winger Diego Lainez was frankly worrying.
“I don’t think the Mexicans were stronger physically, or better prepared, because we were very well prepared, assures midfielder Lucas Tousart, replaced favorably by Alexis Beka Beka (Caen, Ligue 2) in the second period. But maybe they were a little better prepared mentally. There it must be.
“We lacked everything”
Faithful to his reputation, “Dédé” Gignac, scorer from a penalty spot but very discreet in addition, shows himself more cash. “We lacked everything, loose the captain of these very pale Blues on RMC Sport. Concentration, aggressiveness in a good sense. We are lucky not to leave with 5 or 6 goals. “
He also gives an appointment on Sunday because “we do not want to return to France after the third match”. Finally, for the idol of the Tigers of Monterrey, as for his friend Florian Thauvin, it is rather a return to Mexico with many rooms that emerges, if his team does not react.