The Red Devils will finally find out this Monday evening. After a wait of several days, the Red Devils face France in Düsseldorf this evening to try to snatch their place in the quarter-finals of Euro 2024.
For 5 days, they also had to endure repeated attacks or mockery from their French neighbour. Small digs that did not stop this Monday morning. A few hours before the meeting, the press still tirelessly returned with the “James” where the “little Belgian jokes. Selected pieces.
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“Not the time to make a joke”
“The start or the seum”the newspaper L’Équipe sets the scene on its front page.Disappointing in the group stage, the French team will have to finally prove effective to dismiss Belgium who are dreaming of revenge.”, adds the media. Inside its pages, the Blues players are more respectful than the journalists themselves who believe that “France has everything it needs to end this drought”. Then, the daily newspaper attacks more directly the Belgian team which “is not the best team in history”. Even if he wishes “a lot of fun for the Blues who will be dealing with Romelu Lukaku, Jérémy Doku or Kevin De Bruyne”.
On the Parisian side, we pull on another fine trigger of our neighbor: the good old Belgian jokes. “Not the time to make a joke to see the quarters”the newspaper headlines.France and Belgium are battling it out for a place in the quarter-finals of the Euro in Düsseldorf, Germany. Against a backdrop of revenge, with memories of the 2018 World Cup, a great nation of the game will fall. At least some great players”estimates the capital’s newspaper before going even further. “It is therefore time for the French team this Monday July 1 against Belgium to return to what it fundamentally demonstrates, namely an unplayable, defensive selection and it is a quality, which knows how to sting when necessary , and if it’s just once, it’s not so bad.”
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“The Great Shift”
On the Eurosport side, this match against Belgium could serve as a “big seesaw” for the Blues. “At 8 or 9 p.m., we will know. We will know if Didier Deschamps has finally found the right formula, if this French team without direction until now has found a breath of fresh air. Whatever happens, this is the day when Everything shifts. Which way?”asks the media on its website.
Eurosport says the Red Devils must also make amends. “Faced with France, Belgium is not much better off”continues the media. “A defeat against Slovakia in the group stage, a ric-rac qualification: if France has been boring a lot of people for two weeks, the Belgians’ qualification was greeted by a barrage of whistles from its own supporters. This clash between cousins is the best way to make up for everything and escape the scaffold.”
Sofoot hopes that football can make us forget the political reality of the country. “Once upon a time”he titles. “The day after seeing the country get closer to a frightening prospect, the France team has an appointment with its favorite neighbor, Belgium, in the round of 16 of the Euro. The Blues must give another twist in their competition, by showing that they can write a new beautiful story.”
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Finally, RMC Sports looks back at what has changed among the Red Devils since this famous defeat in 2018. “The French had an evening entering the pantheon of French football. The Belgians, for their part, have not all digested… not helped by their neighbors who have continued to criticize them at every opportunity for six years”admits RMC. In its article, the daily newspaper focuses on the golden generation that is dying out, the new talents that are arriving, the Courtois affair and Domenico Tedesco which “does not have unanimous support”.
“Successful first steps, followed by a complicated group phase. At 38, the coach is contested”he says before ending with their usual song. “After 2018, the Belgians also had “leum” in the League of Nations”, meeting where Belgium led 0-2 before biting the dust and losing 3-2 thanks to a very good comeback from the Blues. “A new defeat for the Red Devils which reinforces the French psychological ascendancy before the upcoming round of 16. In their history, the two teams have faced each other 5 times in official competition (excluding qualifying), with the Blues winning as many times. Euro 1984, World Cup 2018, Nations League 2021: France was crowned after three of these five confrontations. Lucky charm?” Response this Monday evening around 8 or 9 p.m.
