Deschamps, recalled the final with Argentina: “There were five who were not up to the task”

The coach of the French National Team, Didier Deschamps, recalled the final of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, in which he fell on penalties to Argentina and pointed against several of his leaders: “There were five players who were not up to the final.” The 2018 world champion renewed his contract with France until the 2026 World Cup included and was self-critical: “We were not up to it. I’m not going to attribute the problem to one player more than another. But in the starting line-up there were five players who, for different reasons, were not up to the level for such a match,” he told Le Parisien. Some players were worse off physically. Is it due to the virus? There is the accumulation of parties… And there is also the emotional aspect. For many of them, it was their first World Cup final. It’s special. Those who have lived it, if they have the opportunity to live it again, will take it a little better, “he added and sentenced: “I will not use strong words, but we did not exist for a good hour.” Finally, he highlighted the spirit of the players to overcome the 2-0 and force a definition in extra time and penalties: “We came back from nowhere, but we did what we had to do because they also had the defect of having much more difficult endings. We pushed them until we were very, very close, but I don’t forget the part where there was no game.”

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