Philippe Albert regrets that Belgium failed to seize its opportunities in the first half against France. The former player shares his opinion on this meeting.
This Monday, Belgium lost once again to France (1-2). Former Red Devil and consultant, Philippe Albert looks back on this meeting.
“Once we got past the astonishment of not seeing De Cuyper at the kick-off even though he had put in an excellent performance in Italy, the start of the match was 100% Belgian, let’s say it. Against a French team which , if it was physically present on the pitch, was not worth a nation in the Top 20 or even the Top 25 in the world given the game proposed, Sorry to say it like that, but the Blues were unworthy of their status,” explains the. native of Bouillon at the microphone of Sudinfo.
Albert is disappointed that the Red Devils were not more effective: “The big problem with the French absences is that the Devils had the opportunity to take the advantage and they did not If he had converted his penalty, Tielemans would have allowed his teammates to take a first step towards a victory which would have done them the greatest good.
“This match should have been over at the break, at the cost of a 2-0. But once again – for the umpteenth time I want to say – the Tedesco players gave their opponents the opportunity to recover in the saddle.”
The Deschamps machine relaunched by Kolo Muani
Albert emphasizes that Deschamps’ team generally does not let any opportunity pass when it has the possibility of taking control of a match: “When we give Deschamps’ gang a second chance to get their hands on a match, we does not generally miss the mark Everything that was started and then built during the first third of the meeting was destroyed by the reaction of Kolo Muani. The equalizer certainly did some good but not more than that. beyond a simple quarter-hour break.”
“As soon as the restart, France took control of operations. And in these conditions, people will ultimately only remember a second half that Belgium gradually suffered. Until Kolo Muani’s second passage through the rectangle Belgian where no one responded in the physical impact, starting with Theate on the second goal.
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