Johan Micoud: “When he wasn’t good, people said he wasn’t good. Now, when he’s very good, people say that too.”

On La Chaine L’Equipe, the former leader of the Girondins de Bordeaux, now a consultant, Johan Micoudwas asked to give his man of the match during the meeting between France and Belgium. For him, it is the former Bordeaux player
Jules Kounde.

“I liked him behind the defense, but I’ll say Jules Koundé. Offensively, I think there’s really a cause and effect with Griezmann in front of him. He knows he can lean in front… When you give it to Dembélé, you don’t really know what’s going to happen afterwards. So maybe Jules Koundé doesn’t go there too much because he doesn’t know how it’s going to happen. Whereas with Antoine Griezmann, he knows there’s going to be support, a pass… He knows that if he takes up space, he’s going to be able to put him… Jules Koundé was in any case very good both defensively and offensively. He was also very good when Doku had the ball, defensively. He practically never passed.”

Then he returned to the few words of Didier Deschamps on Jules Koundé precisely, who explained that the latter had been criticized for two years…

“No, but when he wasn’t good, people said he wasn’t good. Now, when he’s very good, people say it too. They said it at the start of the Euro, especially defensively. Now, he’s playing a complete game defensively and offensively, so people say it. I’m not sure it’s thanks to Deschamps that he suddenly became good.”

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