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The France team, which faces Belgium in the round of 16 of Euro 2024, Monday July 1 (6 p.m.), lost on penalties in its last two major tournaments. If Didier Deschamps has repeatedly repeated that it is impossible to work on them in good conditions, two exercise specialists explain, on the contrary, how to progress in this area.
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The French team, which lost on penalties in the final of the 2022 World Cup (3-3, 4-2 on penalties), has lost its last three sessions in this exercise. | PHOTO: KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP
“It’s football and it’s played on a roll of the dice…”raged Raphaël Varane, in the final of the 2022 World Cup. Les Bleus had just lost to Argentina, at the end of a cruel penalty shootout (3-3, 4-2 on penalties). An unfortunate habit for the French team, which had already fallen in this exercise in the final of the 2006 World Cup, against Italy, and in the round of 16 of Euro 2021, against Switzerland. “It’s interesting that everyone who said the penalty shootout was luck or a lottery were coaches or players who lost, smiles Ben Lyttleton, British journalist and author of “Eleven meters, the solitude of the penalty taker”. No coach who has won a session will say that. »
