Christophe Dugarry: “It remains a defeat, it remains an incomprehensible match for 80 minutes where we were stepped on”

In Rothen ignites on RMC, Christophe Dugarryformer player of Girondins de Bordeaux and consultant, spoke about the PSG coach, Luis Enrique, who continues to annoy especially during his speeches. The subject was as follows: Should we stop listening to Luis Enrique?

« If we side with the Argentines, obviously Argentina, a football country, with Messi, this title that he was missing… Very good for Argentina, it was an incredible emotion to see Messi lift this cup. But I’m sorry, we are sportsmen, high-level competitors too, we love football, we love the French team. It remains a defeat, it remains an incomprehensible match for 80 minutes where we were stepped on. Certainly there is this scenario during overtime, plus the last ten minutes, so we will say around forty minutes, where the match can turn around. We can even win it, it would have been an incredible scenario. There I would have said yes, we only keep a good memory of the 2022 final. Afterwards, I think we only keep a good memory of the 98 final because there was this France – Brazil, there was a 3-0 victory, and we can only keep a good memory when there is victory. At some point there is bound to be a little itchy itch hiding somewhere that will mean that we will never be well. I want us to be grateful, to applaud, to say that we are good players, that we are sporty, that we play fair, well done to Argentina… That doesn’t mean anything. There are vague phrases that exist in football but the one that is still important is ‘A final, you have to win it’, or ‘You don’t remember the seconds’. Even with this incredible scenario? The scenario of what? To see Mbappé again who saves the homeland on a penalty obtained and given by the Argentines… The scenario of seeing a French team suffer so much for 80 minutes and offer so little, it hurt me so much and suffered so much that I cannot not only keep a good memory. It was horrible, all I wanted to do was change the channel at 2-0 and I think I wasn’t the only one. Afterwards there was light at the end of the tunnel but this tunnel, my God, it was long. How incredible it was. I am not convinced that there is a player on the French team who only has good memories of this 2022 final or else I no longer understand anything about football. »

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