Before France-Belgium, the Blues and Didier Deschamps have doubts about the wind – Libération

After two successive defeats, the French football team, and especially its coach, is struggling to find air. And approaches the match against Belgium this Monday, September 9 in a fragile position.

We will end up seeing a form of standard of tricolor convolutions: two defeats in a row for the Blues, in the semi-final of the German Euro (1-2) against the Spanish Roja in July and Friday at the Parc des Princes in the League of Nations against the Italian Squadra Azzurra (1-3), and the president of the French Football Federation, Philippe Diallo, who flies to the aid of his coach, Didier Deschamps, in less than twenty-four hours to explain that he has no intention of sacking him. Saturday, it was in The Figaro and if the mayor did enough to reassure the coach of the Blues, he did not sign an unconditional carte blanche to a coach under contract until July 2026: “Everything in its time. [Le virer] is not my state of thought. I really liked this word from Didier Deschamps “reoxygenate” the team. This is his will and I share it.”

This Monday, September 9, the Blues will host the Belgian selection in Décines-Charpieu (Rhône), near Lyon, for their second Nations League match, and something is happening that is difficult to describe. Just below the surface of things, invisible realities are falling into place. And they are all pushing to end Deschamps’ term as soon as possible, four semi-finals in the last five