“Everything is going well, everything is going very well.” Dayot Upamecano repeated it twice probably because he knew his audience doubted it. Sent to the fire with William Saliba this Thursday two days after the insipid draw against Poland (1-1), the central defender repelled the doubts and skepticism of journalists with as much authority as the opposing attacks. But always with a flat foot, safety.
No question of getting on your high horse, simply of reciting a known score. Of course, not everything is perfect. But the essential is assured with qualification for the 8th and, of course, the group is living well. The opposite would have frankly surprised us. The critics ? Upamecano: “It doesn’t affect me. I try not to watch too much, I focus on the team.” Inability to score? Upamecano: “That doesn’t worry me. We had a lot of chances. We are missing this goal but we are strong offensively.”
“The main problem for the Blues is that Giroud and Griezmann are beside themselves”
Neither Belgium nor France are sick
The atmosphere in the group when a large number of players did not play a single minute? Saliba: “We’re still friends. It hasn’t changed in a few days. We all have the same goal. Of course we all want to play. But those who don’t start don’t disrupt the group.” The level of play? Saliba: “Neither Belgium nor France are sick, both teams are in the 8th round. Both can do better, we will show that we deserve to go all the way.”
Everything is going well in line with Didier Deschamps’ speech on Tuesday evening who said he was not worried and that, in any case, a new competition was going to start. A bit like the evening of the draw against Portugal in 2021 where the coach used exactly the same words… a few days before the disaster against Switzerland. Nothing says that such a fate awaits the Blues against the Belgians. But faced with great reservations from journalists, Dayot Upamecano ended up keeping a little more guard: “You are free to say what you want, I tell you that we are fine. We want to beat Belgium, go as far as possible. We could have done better and we will do better in the next match.” Promis ?
