2024-07-27 22:49:59
If you have championship success? Having been saved twice by the posts against the Americans in the opening, the French Olympic team has baraka again this Saturday! This time, it is not the cost, but the video aid to the judgment that prevents the meeting from changing another. While we knew before the start-off that they would not be in the quarter-finals because of the previous victory of the United States against New Zealand (4-1), Thierry Henry’s players still had fear but three precious points in the bag for qualification by winning 1-0.
Long paralyzed and above all brittle in defense under the watch of Didier Deschamps who was in the stands, the Tricolores had movements in focus which could be costly. During the first act, there were clear chances from Mateta (18th, 35th) but it was the Kaba Diawara gang that proved to be the most dangerous.
Sharper under the scorching heat of Nice, the Guinean national team first thought they had won the first time through Keita, who was marked outside after turning on Restes (41st). Above all, Sily worries in the head of Le Havre Touré who left the French goalkeeper without a chance by taking a good free kick within six meters (45 + 3rd). After going to celebrate in the corner, he didn’t think he was offside, too, and saw his goal cleverly rejected by VAR. What can we say, then, about the save that Lukeba signed on his line just before the break?
As when they started three days ago, the French showed two faces. One, out of the picture, for almost an hour, before the rebellion sounded in the last third. It was only in the second half that they started quickly by shooting a first banderilla on the post from incoming Kalimuendo (72nd) after a strong one from Olise (68th). In the end and not without punishment, the French Olympic team escaped thanks to a goal from Sildilia, the full back targeted by OM during this transfer window, who came out of the forest to give victory to the header placed on wonderful serve from Olise (1-0, 76th).
A goal of release for these Blues who like to scare us and them too. With three places ahead of the USA (2nd) and New Zealand (3rd), we can say they are almost there. All they need is a little effort to look around. A draw will be enough to qualify and finish first in the group in three days, in Marseille, against the New Zealanders.
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