The former Girondins de Bordeaux defender, now a consultant for L’Equipe, Bixente Lizarazuspoke about this evening’s meeting between the French team and Belgium, against the backdrop of Didier Deschamps’ hypothetical change of system.
“Having tried three different formulas since the start of the Euro is not good news. It means that we still haven’t found the right one. And, well, it can be risky to experiment with a new system at the time of a knockout match. The verdict will be irrevocable. It could be a trigger or definitively mark our difficulties and our limits in this competition.”
Then he talks about France’s “rich man’s problem” in midfield, showing surprise at the same time that some are asking to leave Aurelien Tchouaméni of the starting eleven.
“In the French team, it’s not just the last performance that counts, otherwise you could change the team every time. The value of a player is always an undulation: a very good match, a more average match, but performances which outline a value and therefore a status in the team. This is the case for Tchouaméni and I was surprised that we could claim that he came out of the eleven type. He is a player who has become important in the French team and at Real Madrid, we cannot hide his status overnight”.
