Didier Deschamps returned to the fetal penalties session in the Blues during the World Cup final against Argentina.
It is a historical fact: the penalty shootout mainly recall bad memories to the French football team. Especially in Didier Deschamps. In 1998, the Blues were certainly released from their duel against Italy in the quarterfinals, but two years earlier, in the semi-final of the Euro, Aimé Jacquet’s troops had bowed to the Czech Republic. Above all, the French team remains on two stinging failures at the shots on goals: in the eighth of the Euro against Switzerland and, obviously, in the final of the World Cup against Argentina.
Didier Deschamps is nonetheless convinced that the exercise comes from the lottery or is at least dependent on too many external factors to be truly prepared. “I’m not going to take out the term, as usual, lottery. Obviously the five who draw the penalties are not the five planned at the start. But with the seven changes I had to make … “He said on this subject at the RTL microphone on Sunday.
Faced with Argentina, if Kylian Mbappé had shown the way, Kingskey Coman and Aurélien Tchouames both missed their attempt, ruining the hopes of third star from the French team. “I am asked why it is not the experienced players who fired the penalties. Apart from Hugo (Lloris) as a player experienced in the last eleven …, he blown. It’s always a special moment. I cannot say that I enjoyed it when I was a player even if I happened to win matches and titles with penalties. It could have switched before. It’s fate, football. It must be accepted. ”
