France-Italy (1-3), Nations League: Reactions from Didier Deschamps, Antoine Griezmann and Bradley Barcola
Great disappointment for the Blues after such a poor performance at home. Didier Deschamps' French team did not expect a defeat (1-3) against Italy to start its 2024-2025 Nations League campaign. The reactions.
Bradley Barcola : " We started very well. As time went on, I think we relaxed our game and we conceded those goals. We were put in difficulty by this low block. I started well, I felt that the block was moving back, doing finger holds or three-pointers. That bothered us, me and Michael (Olise). Positive points? I scored my first goal for the French team, in Paris too. We can't have two defeats in a row, we're going to prepare well for Monday. (against Belgium). »
Antoine Griezmann (on TF1): « They were better, we weren't good in pressing, nor defensively. Work well and review that tactically. How to explain it? I don't know. However, we had started well, a lot of desire and good pressing. We didn't know how to arrange ourselves tactically when their central defender came inside playing 6. We had trouble on this aspect tactically and it caused us a lot of problems. »
Didier Deschamps : " We have to be factual. We started well, we did some good things. But we didn't have the ability to maintain it throughout the match. In the effort and the counter-effort, we had an opponent who hurt us, who punctured us with mistakes on our part. That's the high level. Even if I knew very well before the start of the meetings that with the situation of each other, we are far from being at our best individually. I made individual and collective mistakes. It's a question of positioning. In the duels in the second part of the first period, we lost a few too many, we made mistakes in recovery only to lose it again later. It's giving ammunition to the opponent. Keeping the opponent under pressure for 90 minutes, we didn't have the means to do that. But in this case, it's better to be lower and more compact.«
The summary and analysis of the meeting can be read on Entrevue.fr
