After the defeat of our Red Devils against Italy, the RTL sports Jury awarded its red, Orange and green cards. Trossard is the only one to do well, while Domenico Tedesco receives a red card again.
Green for Trossard
To start with something positive, because there inevitably are some, two members of our Jury have chosen to put Leandro Trossard in the spotlight. After a more than complicated Euro, the Arsenal player seems to be finding, little by little, his place in this national team and was one of the only ones to stand out against Italy.
“It is difficult to bring out an element which performed well over the two halves as a whole, but I found Trossard interesting in fragments, notably in the second half in a more central position, where he dared, took the game at his own pace. account. Ultimately, it is he who allows us to create chances and who is the basis of most of the Red Devils’ sequences. And then, I found Debast good, even if we have to put things into perspective, because he had one or two moments of absence which could have cost us dearly“, says Vincenzo Ciuro.
Trossard is also in green for our journalist Alexandre Braeckman, “but the one in the second half, who understood that he had to be in the middle to be the creator of the game. I think he gave good offensive momentum to this Belgian team. He creates a lot of chances, it was good to see him a little more comfortable. But in the first half, I couldn’t put anyone in green, it was for me, the worst half of the Tedesco era“, then deplores our journalist.
For Silvio Proto, it is Koen Casteels who deserves his green card. “He has nothing to reproach himself for, and he wins another duel at the end against Retegui“, summarizes our consultant.
Orange boxes
The former goalkeeper continues by placing not a player, but the coach in orange. “When you hear a little of what Timothy Castagne says in the interview, it’s that they only have two days to prepare for a match like this, so try to play with 3 or 5 behind…“, he declares, skeptical of the tactics adopted by Domenico Tedesco against Italy.
A player like Castagne, and others, do not know where to stand
Our two journalists opt for players. “Wout Faes“, says Alexandre Braeckman before explaining, “I think he was technically catastrophic with some big mistakes, on the other hand, defensively, especially face-to-face, he is very smart. He is very good at sensing duels. I would put him in orange because he has room for improvement, but we still expect more from him, he’s an orange that tends towards red“.
Vincenzo Ciuro point, him, Timothy Castagne. “Defensively, he did the job, because the Italian offensives mainly came from the left side. He also had some interesting climbs, it was he who sent this cross towards Lukaku. But we feel that a 3-5-2 or 5-3-2 system is only in its infancy with Tedesco, and we heard it clearly through his interview, a player like Castagne, and d others, don’t know where to stand“, notes our journalist.
Red for Tedesco
He also continues his momentum by attributing red to Domenico Tedesco. “Unfortunately, I’ve gotten used to it, but after these 5 Nations League meetings described as an “experimental laboratory”, we still don’t know where he wants to go and what his ideas are. When he took the reins of the national team, we had a sparkling and offensive game with pressing and counter-pressing, positive football. Yesterday, I had the impression that he was playing mainly not to lose. What should we do with Domenico Tedesco in the coming weeks? It’s not up to us to answer, but it definitely raises the question, once again.“, he argues.
Arne Engels drowned in this match
For Silvio Proto, it was Maxim De Cuyper, at fault for the goal conceded, who was chosen. “On the first goal, the last foul, it was he who made it. It puts us a little into it and especially the coach into it. His tactic falls apart“, says our consultant.
Finally, Alexandre Braeckman does not do any favors to Arne Engels, starting for the first time in the national team. “I found him completely lost, in the rhythm, in the transitions. Having put a mid-two, so thin, against an Italian team reinforced in this sector, it was a little suicidal and Arne Engels drowned in this match next to an Onana who also did not seem very at ease. It’s bad luck for him, I think he deserved a more accessible match to get into the swing of things. There was so much lack of percussion and creativity in this environment“, tempers our journalist all the same.
The match summary
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