Led and mistreated at half-time, the Blues have succeeded a spectacular turnaround to dominate Belgium (3-2) and climb in the final of the young competition.
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They went from Waterloo to Solferino in the space of a stunning second half. In Turin, the Blues won a new battle against Belgium (3-2), in the semifinal of this second edition of the League of Nations, Thursday 7 October. The competition still feels a little new, but the victory remains beautiful and in a different register from this semi-final of the World Cup (1-0) against these same “Red Devils” in 2018. It also opens the way. a new title against Spain on Sunday in Milan.
In St. Petersburg, the future champions of the world had given a lesson in resilience and efficiency (1-0), perceived hot as a small turning between neighbors by their opponents. This time, the France team did in the race-pursuit with cascades and tire crosses in a little filled Juventus stadium, between sanitary gauge and relative interest of Turinois. “A 2-0, no big world at half-time thought it was possible apart from me”, admits a Didier Deschamps at the wheel of a team overwhelmed by the malice of Yannick Carrasco (37 e ) and the power of Romelu Lukaku (41 e ).
After a correct start, his players had “too remote and too left the initiative” to their opponents to the taste of the coach. At that time, the papers were already well advanced with first definitive and necessarily a little cruel findings. We probably had to read that Kevin de Bruyne had distributed the balloons in three-room costume, which Lukaku made the effect of an adult in the middle of a defense of children or so that this scheme in 3-4-3 Repeated barely less baroque only if Deschamps had come out of his tactical Grimoire on 2-3-5, proposed in 1904 at the very first France-Belgium (3-3).
Mbed took his responsibilities
Because Hugo Lloris and his partners “had nothing to lose anymore”, that the Belgians “may have thought a little too much in the final” and fired “emotional” to the chagrin of their coach, Roberto Martinez , the curves crossed to allow an “exploit”, according to Lloris. The word is not overshadowed against the First Nation in FIFA ranking. Continuous control champion (but decidedly angry with the final exam), Belgium had this half-final in hand for one hour.
And then, she gave way to this blue revolt incarnated by Kylian mbed. In France team, the attacker does not do everything well, but it does a lot. For its 50 e selection at 22, the Parisian offered the decisive pass to Karim Benzema for the purpose of the hope (62 e ), before taking his responsibilities Seven minutes later equalizing on penalty of a striking in the mouth. The choice does not have to random. If the usual agent – Benzema in this case – spent his turn, it is also to allow his partner to heal the memory of this shot with the goal against Switzerland at the euro.
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