2022 World Cup: French Deschamps team, best attack and worst defense in forty years

We have to go back to the 1982 edition, in Spain, to see the French score and collect as many goals in the same final phase of the World Cup.

by William Audureau

Like this lost final (3-3, 2-4 on penalties against Argentina), the French team’s journey in Qatar will remain in the annals: it has equaled the record Goals scored by an eleven tricolor in a modern World Cup, with 2.29 goals per game, but, among the seven editions where she reached the last square, also conceded the greatest number of goals since the legendary epic of 1982, who had already resulted in a loss to penalties after a 3-3 draw, then against Germany.

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French offensive performances were predictable and expected, despite the Package of the Ballon d’Or, Karim Benzema. Worn by an effective olive giroud (5 goals, against zero in 2018) and especially a stratospheric kylian mbappé (8 goals, top scorer in the tournament), the French team sent the ball 16 times to the bottom of the world . It is once again than in 1998, three more than in 2018 and as much as in 1982.

Only France of 1958 had done better – 23 goals in six games – at a time when football was more customary of the high scores (the Blues of Just Fontaine had thus bowed 5-2 against Brazil, before Take 6-3 against Western Germany during the small final).

a single match without collecting a goal

The French defensive difficulties are however more unusual, while the solidity of the rear base was the base of the victorious campaigns of 1998 and 2018. But France played bad luck, with three titular before (Presnel Kimpembe, N’Golo Kanté) or during the World Cup (Lucas Hernandez, from the first match).

The post has continued to accompany the team throughout the tournament, between the district of the side Benjamin Pavard, replaced on the right by Jules Koundé, however not specialist in the post, and the influenza syndrome contracted by the vice-captain Raphaël Varane, who competed in the weakened final, until leaving his partners at the end of forces during the extension.

The French conceded a total of 8 goals and signed only one clean Sheet, a match where the goalkeeper remains undefeated. You have to go back to this famous 1982 edition to see the Blues get out of the competition having taken more goals. She then sold 12 times, notably against England (1-3 in a group match), Germany (3-3 in the semi-finals) and Poland (2-3 in the classification match).

If we count the goal of goals conceded by games, the Blues of 2010 had done worse than in 2022, with 1.33, against 1.14 for the team of Didier Deschamps. But they had been eliminated from the group stages.

/Media reports cited above.