On La Chaine L’Equipe, the journalist Dave
Appadoonoted the meeting of the former central defender of the Girondins de Bordeaux, Jules Koundéagainst the Netherlands.
“I rate it 7/10, knowing that it’s well paid, but I know why I’m doing it. All joking aside, that’s it, I wasn’t expecting anything from Jules Koundé, and overall he surprises me. The recurring weak point in the French team is the right-back position with this choice of Jules Koundé, and obviously you feel that it is a choice by default, for lack of anything better, and because it also gives a kind of base… I find that at the start of the Euro, he is already playing very, very well defensively, and that is still what we ask of him, which has not always been the case. I even found him clean in what he did. So, it’s not Cafu, we’ll get along… But I find that compared to someone who was said to be chronically weak, well I find that what he does in this moment is good. This 7/10 is an encouragement”
Stéphane Guy added.
“7/10, we can rate it like that, at the start of the Euro perhaps, with a little bonus for encouragement. But not in the match against the Netherlands.”
Jules Koundé’s notes by L’Equipe du Soir
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