Griezmann and Mbappé each scored a goal against the Welsh on Wednesday. – FRANCK FIFE / AFP
In Nice,
In numerical superiority from the 25th minute of play, the France team won against Wales for their first preparation match, thanks to goals from Mbappé (34th), Griezmann (48th) and Dembélé (79th) . The Benzema-Griezmann-Mbappé trio showed on Wednesday that this agreement could make us feel bad in the stomach this summer at the Euro.
Match folded to the 25th. Small quiz at home: how to ruin a preparation match, by definition very important for both teams before the start of the Euro, in the space of a minute? Portuguese referee Mr. Godinho gave us the answer: by stupidly and wickedly excluding Welshman Neco Williams, admittedly guilty of a hand in the box on a close range shot from Benzema, without even showing a minimum of psychology. We put our hand to cut Deschamps over this analysis. On arrival, difficult with a Welsh team curled up on its goals to say much more about the offensive animation of the Blues.
The poisoned gift. The peno, let’s get to it. A murmur of pleasure ran through the press gallery, the only one furnished on Wednesday evening in Nice, seeing Griezmann throwing the ball to Benzema in “welcome gift, dad” mode. Bad luck, the beautiful story ended there since the returning Madrid saw his penalty kicked back by the firm hand of Ward (25th). For what it’s worth, this was the third peno in a row KB9 missed in Blue. This did not prevent the n ° 19, author of a marvelous control sequence by retreating-scud of the right on the post at the end of the match, to be very visible throughout the evening.
The trio are doing well, thank you for them. The rest, as one might expect, came down to a kind of tasteless attack-defense and, more problematic, without great lessons for the Blues. It will be noted all the same that the trio of the Griezmann space (author of a rolled up of the left full skylight on the return of the locker room) -Benzema-Mbappé did not need a lot of joint training to find the eyes half-closed. Thumbs up also for Coco Tolisso, author of a very interesting match at the post of sentry, enough to officially launch the match with Rabiot, rather shy on Wednesday, for the third place of titu in the middle of the Euro.
Doubt about the sides? Should we see in the early change of the two full-backs Pavard and Hernandez, very discreet in the first period, as the mark of a beginning of reflection in the mind of Deschamps? It is obviously too early to answer it, especially since this first match was to allow the coach to make a large staff review. Nevertheless, their replacements (Digne on the left and Koundé on the right) showed very good things when they returned from the locker room, showing themselves to be much more available in the offensive phase than the two Munich friends. But once again, the Welsh had been ten for a while now …