While he sees similarities between the Blues of today and those of France 1998, Bixente Lizarazu has a precise idea for who should play the role of Didier Deschamps.
Eliminated in the semi-final of the last Euro by Spain, the French team must now turn towards the 2024 World Cup. And for Bixente Lizarazu, Didier Deschamps and his troops must now be inspired by what has been done by Aimé Jacquet after Euro 1996 to prepare for the 1998 World Cup. In his opinion, the similarities are striking.
« “The Blues must use their experience as semi-finalists of the last Euro and the flaws observed during this tournament as we were able to do in 1996 after our elimination against the Czech Republic at the same stage of this competition, he said in his column for
The Team. All things considered, I have the feeling that an interesting parallel can be drawn between these two teams twenty-eight years apart. »
Aurélien Tchouameni, a role like Didier Deschamps
“From Euro 1996, we retained the idea that we were already strong defensively. We told ourselves that it was really not a gift to play against us, that we had to cultivate this confidence while taking care of the offensive phase. he added before highlighting the new dimension taken by certain players since the departures of Hugo Lloris, Raphaël Varane, Olivier Giroud and more recently Antoine Griezmann: “The players who are taking up more and more space are Mike Maignan, Jules Koundé, Ibrahima Konaté, William Saliba, Aurélien Tchouameni Adrien Rabiot and I would add Eduardo Camavinga.
And the former Bordeaux player tries to draw certain parallels, notably between Jules Koundé and Lilian Thuram or Mike Maignan and Fabien Barthez. The Basque even thinks he has found the one who should play the role of Didier Deschamps with the Blues in 1998.
“We can even imagine that Tchouameni is able to have the tactical dimension of a Deschamps in the middle, he is also the one who acts as the interface between the staff and the group,” he wrote before giving the role of Zizou to Kylian Mbappé: “Not in relation to the position of course, but in relation to the ability to change the history of a match or a competition. »
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