They have gone through all the feelings since four League of Nations matches, miserable against Italy, awakened against Belgium, half extinguished against Israel and combative again against the Belgian neighbors, incapable of expressing their superiority, even at 11 against 10. So here are the Blues, solidly second in their group and who will seek a place for the Final 8 of the competition next month, with the added bonus of a final in Milan in San Siro against the Squadra Azzurra. The French team is a selection with problems which therefore has solutions.
We must call ourselves Belgium, this football nation which has been scuttling itself for around ten years, to find itself trailing by one goal after an hour of play after a double from Randal Kolo Muani. Even if the Parisian has become their executioner, the Red Devils, in blue this Monday in Brussels, still manage to go hara-kiri in big matches. Against the French team, she showed a Dantesque intensity for thirty minutes to which Didier Deschamps’ men did nothing, collecting three warnings, before others in the second half. The French midfielder was shattered, forcing the defense to bail out a ship taking the tide, William Saliba regaining his level before the last Euro, the one which did not make his coach want to line him up.
You have to be Belgium to have so many situations and even a penalty and send it into the air, like Harry Kane in Doha in the quarter-final of the World Cup against Hugo Lloris, by a disappointed Youri Tielemans (23rd). Unless the concept of the “DD pussy”, the historic and eternal chance from which the boss of the Blues would benefit, has once again operated. Remember that if the thing happens so often, success doesn’t have much to do with it. Is this a talent?
In any case, despite their rubber resistance, their hinge in limbo, a porous environment and little imagination and creativity in front, apart from Bradley Barcola, the partners of Aurélien Tchouaméni, expelled a quarter of an hour from the end, floated, survived, opened the score first. Despite the Belgians’ much-deserved equalizer in added time of the first period, they showed more control after the break, managing to double the score.
Unshakeable faith in them
They therefore have an iron mentality, something like a faith in themselves, despite the criticism, their shaky but also unpredictable game for the opponent and the solidity of their hosts, a priori stronger this Monday than them on the pitch of King Baldwin. This is a quality that runs through the mandate of Didier Deschamps: his selections, whatever the composition, never give up, never give up anything and always believe in it, football taking a back seat to this dogma of mindset.
Ultimately, the French team resembles him in an atavistic way: the Bayonnais was not the best on the pitch but it is he who has the greatest track record which he increased with his coaching career. There may not be a lot of play with him, but psychology, always. With his blues, his absent executives including Kylian Mbappé who will not have really breathed during this truce, his A’s are still proudly standing. There is a form of magic.
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