Seen and read about PSG in the French press this Friday, November 15, 2024. The sad draw of the France team against Israel (0-0) in the Nations League, the difficulties of Warren Zaire-Emery in a positioning unusual, Bradley Barcola harmless with the Blues…
In today's edition, The Team
devotes its front page to the sad, goalless draw between
the French team et Israel this Thursday at Stade de France (0-0). A result which still allows the Blues to qualify for the quarter-finals of the League of Nations next March. However, in this encounter, “everything was sad and discouraging from start to finish, this heavy atmosphere, this stadium emptied by fear, and the weak game of the French teamwithout rhythm or quality in the first period, and without address afterwards. » The Tricolores delivered a first act without intensity, rhythm and character. The 4-2-3-1 with
Warren Zaire-Emery in a hybrid position didn't help the show either. But what we saw on the lawn of Stade de France had little to do with just the organization, “carrying the ball too much, giving it too slowly, too often backwards. » Added to this is the clumsiness of the attackers
Bradley Barcola, Randal Cole Muani et Michael Olise.
If the second half was a bit more exciting, the lack of efficiency in the last gesture was greatly felt.
“Even without Ousmane Dembéléit's as if there had been too many players from the PSG to have a chance to score by creating as many chances in an international match: after the failures of First Class
et Stagger, Zaire-Emery got started (76th), he too, and finally, even the players trained in
Paris remained on theme, with the huge opportunity missed by Christopher Nkunku on a center of Kingsley Coman (90e+6). , Sunday, the French team will face Italyan opponent who will force him to raise his level of play.
The sports daily focuses on the hybrid role of attacking midfielder occupied by Warren Zaire-Emery with
the French team. Since the last gathering, Didier Deschamps tries a new position as “false number 10”. Facing the
Belgium last October, it was
Mattéo Guendouzi who found himself in this position. And last night, it was Titi's turn to be tried in this hybrid role. In this position, the Blues coach especially asks his player to harass the opponent when he has the ball at his feet. “It also allows a certain freedom so that other midfielders can take up space or the wingers can dezone, without unbalancing the team. However, we should not completely question the performance of 'WZE', but rather the choice of the coach”notes THE.
The middle of PSG was one of the French people most present in the opposing area (8 balls touched, third highest total). He also attempted forward throws and made calls between the lines. However, the 18-year-old has been much less active than his other partners in midfield. Warren Zaire-Emery finished the match with 65 balls touched, compared to 93 for Edward Camavinga and 144 for Strength Kanté.
“In the end, the results are quite clear:
Zaire-Emery has not evolved into a position that seems to correspond to his qualities (…) For his third start in the selection, 'WZE' logically ended up frustrated. He will be able to say this morning that at 18 years and 251 days old, he became the youngest player in history to have 6 caps with the Blues ahead of
Kylian Mbappé (18 years and 257 days). »
A small consolation.
Finally, The Team also points to the performance of the French attackers, including that of
Bradley Barcola. Lined up in the left lane, the player of the PSG was not very dangerous, just like Michael Olise right. The two wingers were unable to make any difference against the Israeli low block. Impressive in Ligue 1number 29 of the Rouge & Bleu “cannot afford to deliver such an insipid match in blue. The main area of progress – and the player is working on it – is in his development of dribbling skills. Facing full-backs who know him better and better. » The former Lyonnais has this tendency to throw himself into two-on-one duels and get frustrated with his failures. And in the area, the 22-year-old winger narrowly missed in his rare situations.
For his part, The Parisian also returns to the infamous performance of
the French team facing Israel
(0-0) in League of Nations. If this sharing of points allows the Blues to qualify for the quarter-finals of the competition next March, they have never been able to impress this meeting. “It is too often and particularly in 2024 that the Blues chain control, boredom and strikes into the void rather than passes, crosses and recoveries in a grammar of football which is written backwards. Yes,
France-Israel has long seemed like a punishment for the eyes while the few present had done nothing”summary LP. Without an attacking leader and with a lack of creation, the formation of
Didier Deschamps did not provide any emotion.
“Conductor or not, they could have gotten out of it in very personal ways but neither Michael
Olise in Bradley Barcola did not appear in an evening of individual exploit or bright ideas, lingering ahead in a creative universe at low tide. It's hard to ask Randal Cole Muani to feast in this desert. » In a more exciting second period, the French came up just short in the last move. The Parisian environment, Warren Zaire-Emerynotably had a great opportunity to score his second goal for the selection.
« The French team will not regain popularity with so little enthusiasm and conviction in its intentions, abandoned to the emptiness of a transition without managers or above-average talents. This youth –
Olise, Stagger,
Zaire-Emery for example – was not pulled upwards by a dense collective and consistent leaders. »
