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When Patrice Evra decides to speak, that means the crisis brewing in the Blues. In the corridors of the Stade Elbasan city located forty kilometers from Tirana, the left rear of the France team sounded the alarm, Saturday, June 13, after the defeat (1-0) of his selection against Albania, training ranked 51 th rank of FIFA, the preparatory match at Euro 2016.
“ is represents a country. You can miss a technical gesture but missed envy , has cursed the defender of Juventus, “unofficial” captain of the Tricolor and real boss of their locker room. Especially with this team which used to play with the boiler suit every game. This is how we made a good World Cup [Les Bleus were eliminated in the quarterfinals by Germany, the future winner of the tournament last year, Brazil]. We were shown a beautiful face at all French and it was really with this desire and respect the shirt. And it’s been a few games that has lost . “
Six days after their setback (4-3) against Belgium, 2 th in the FIFA rankings, Stade de France, protected by Didier Deschamps are therefore to string together a second straight defeat. That had not happened since June 2013 and a chaotic summer tour in South America, notably marked by a defeat (3-0) against Brazil
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While the Selecao has emerged (3-1) in Saint-Denis, on 26 March, the Blues have therefore recorded three defeats in their last four outings, eight and six goals conceded registered. The beautiful dynamic born of victorious return dam (3-0) against Ukraine, on the road to World Cup 2014, suddenly stopped. “ If no one has the right mindset, it becomes an ordinary team “, reacted coolly, middle Mathieu Valbuena.
A year of Euro 2016, organized in France (from 10 June to 10 July), she would panic winning the tricolor ship? “ We must stop thinking in Brazil because we have a Euro win at home , recalled Patrice Evra, 34, who honored in Albania’s 65 th Selection . This will be very difficult and it will wake up the next course. We fell in some comfort. I’m not worried, but be careful. The Euro, not in four years but one year. You have to show another want to wear this jersey. We need to shut up and work. “
” I am primarily responsible “
Annoyed by the defeat against Belgium, Didier Deschamps said he was “ angry ” after the indigent and distressing performance of his players in the furnace of Elbasan. “ It was below in relation to their level. Tonight there was an opponent with more determination, although regrouped and was found solutions. I am primarily responsible , said the coach of the Blues, while his protégés did virtually created no net occasion against Albania. I chose the players, systems, those who enter that stick out. I’ll take the time to analyze but it is not a period that is very favorable to us. We lacked determination and aggressiveness, and that what we had lost, not six months after the World Cup but the last two games and especially this one. We did not get hungry enough, this is not acceptable and I can not accept it. I do not judge the players but we were not mentally ready to play a high level game . “
If you can delight of beating in autumn 2014, the teams of the caliber of Spain (1-0), Portugal (2-1) or Sweden (1-0), Didier Deschamps has seen his group physically collapse at the end of the season. A picture of Olivier Giroud, Bacary Sagna, Antoine Griezmann and Raphael Varane, many players seemed eager to go on holiday to recharge their batteries. The absence of striker Karim Benzema injured, was also detrimental to El Tri. Package against Belgium in the wake of his defeat (3-1) against Barcelona in the final of the Champions League, Paul Pogba, the prodigy of Juventus, came off the bench in Albania. Fever the day before the meeting, he could still reverse the trend.
A bad spiral perspective
In order Generally, the motivation was lacking in the training that crosses since September 2014, a long tunnel of friendly matches until the next continental tournament. In lack of playing time this season, sometimes substitutes in their clubs, some players (Cabaye, Sakho to name a few) will give a new impetus to their career to hopefully continue to weigh selection.
Winner of the Euro 1984 and World 1998 held at home, the France team is yet reflected in the requirement to obtain a convincing result at Euro 2016. “ Our team progresses, we are not yet at the level of the best, but we are now at the level of good European nations, though. A year before the final stage, it is too early to define a specific target , recently tinged Christmas Graët, president of the French Football Federation, in the columns of L’Equipe . Since 1998, no host nation has won a Euro or a World Cup, and saw what it was for Brazil last year . “
” We had two good slaps but I’m not worried. I have confidence in this group “tempered Patrice Evra, despite the unflattering balance displayed by her training at the end of the 2014/2015 season (5 wins, 2 draws, 3 defeats). A dive into the archives of El Tri serve to place this bad spiral, one year of a major international competition.
Good sequences can camouflage a future disaster. A year before their elimination in the first round of the World in 2002, the Blues had won and, in June 2001, the Confederations Cup.
Before Euro 1984, the band Michel Platini n ‘Had she not accumulated the bad results (defeat in Denmark draw against Yugoslavia) only to be sacred at home? Didier Deschamps, then holder of the captaincy, and the Blues had they not missed the “Tournament of France”, in June 1997, recording two draws against Brazil and Italy and a defeat against England, a year before their triumph in the World Cup final of 1998? El Tri Roger Lemerre had they not struggled to win in Andorra (1-0), thanks to a penalty converted late in the game by Franck Leboeuf in June 1999, before winning the Euro 2000? Conversely, good sequences can camouflage a future disaster. A year before their elimination in the first round of the World in 2002, the Blues had won and, in June 2001, the Confederations Cup.
“It will not come crying”
A Elseban, Didier Deschamps said he would have “ option to ” at the next seminar of the Blues, expected in early September before a tricky trip to Portugal. Hollow, those who have gone through this season end they should expect to leave the Blue Train in the fall? “The coach Didier Deschamps is a patient person, but when he makes decisions, he takes true and it will not come crying ,” warned Patrice Evra, while the coach s ‘mostly relied on the workforce who had played the World Cup 2014. The Bayonne has also opened the door to many young talents (Alexandre Lacazette, Nabil Fekir, Geoffrey Kondogbia).
In addition to next match- test provided facing the selection of Cristiano Ronaldo, El Tri are preparing to assess contredes major nations of world football. After a dangerous trip to Denmark, in October, they will in the German world champions on November 13, before going to rub England four days later, in the heart of London’s temple of Wembley. Finally, the Blues will travel to the Netherlands on 25 March. Suffice to say that the road to Euro will not be easy.
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