The French team won against Ukraine in Poland, this Friday, to launch its qualifying campaign for the World Cup (2-0).
The World Cup operation began. That we are not mistaken, this return to school was not as banal as the previous ones. In their recent history, the Blue
have also shown that they were not always as studious as they seem at this time of the year. Because in these qualifying campaigns' old like football, boredom often reduces envy. But the format of this year is different, and the story will tell us, at the end of the ball, if it was a good thing or not.
Exit these qualifying beaches dispatched over two years: room for a mission concentrated over two months, with a group of four as an an aperitif before the more generous menu of the US World Cup. And that is good, since the Blues started their program with the biggest piece, Ukraine, with a Poland displacement – geopolitical context requires. So many elements to generate this little feeling of emergency that mobilizes the heads and electrifies the legs.
It is in this state of mind that the French team experienced the genesis of its great adventure. With a high-level workforce and animated by a flame that goes far beyond the framework of football, Ukraine, carried by elements like Oleksandr Zintchenko or the neo-Parisian Llya Zabarnyi, had real arguments to make. The Blues, them, intended to maintain an offensive impulse driven by their new strike force, but they also had to erase their weaknesses behind. He is a cursor to settle. And it's on the right track.
Blues applied, olise in all the right shots
With a gorgeous-academic quartet-mpappé marrying creativity and efficiency, the band in Deschamps put the necessary ingredients to return from Poland with three precious points in your pocket. An interesting performance that brings the signature of Michael Olise. The Olympic vice-champion is a rising value in this group.
Precious in the orientation of the game, available between the lines, the Bayern crack was in all the right shots. It was he who unlocked the situation to put the Blues on good rails, placing a firing in the sigh after a good center of Bradley Barcola (0-1, 10th). It is he, again, which could have made the break on a new vicious shot at the entrance to the surface (17th).
Concentrated, the Blues have also shown guarantees in the defensive sector, with a good involvement of these artists in the phases without balloon. It was one of the major challenges of this meeting in hostile land, and it will surely be a key to continuing to dream. Well organized, serious and applied, the men of Deschamps also crossed some turbulence on the return from the locker room, but Mike Maignan watched over the grain. A turning point before a fairly logical break, on a majestic solo action by Kylian Mbappé (0-2, 82nd).
The Blues therefore fulfilled the first part of their contract and we take a first step towards this US World Cup. Beat Iceland on Tuesday, would place them on a boulevard.
