On the bench during the match against Côte d’Ivoire, in favor of Theo Hernandez, Lucas Digne should start this Tuesday evening in Lille against South Africa. In an interview given to The Team the 28-year-old left-back returned to competition for the France team.
«There has always been competition, says the Aston Villa player. So much the better, we don’t fall asleep. In the end, when we get the hang of it, the Blues are winners.“Having gone to five defenders for several months now, the Blues are now evolving in an unusual system for Lucas Digne.
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«At Aston Villa, we start at four but, during the match, the midfielders drop a little lower to play the game and the full-backs go up a notch. So I can find myself quite high. It’s a system where you can take advantage of the offensive qualities of the full-backs. The only difference is that we don’t have someone in front of us to combine. You have to cover distance, cross, attack, take depth” admits the left side who will return to Lille, he who was trained at the club and played pro from 2011 to 2013, and at Stade Pierre-Mauroy.
Selected for the first time on March 5, 2014, the former Lille resident has since accumulated 43 caps with Blues. “En eight years with the Blues, I experienced some wonderful things, some less. Obviously, 2018 (the World Cup, editor’s note), it was not fun for me, but I showed that I had recoveredconcludes the Frenchman.
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