Benzema, the bad example for Mbappé – Football.fr

Francois Kulawik
09/03/2021 5:17 am | UPDATED ON 03/09/2021 AT 7:50 a.m.

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Kylian Mbappé

He will miss the next two matches for the France team.
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Antoine Griezmann (4/10)

He is officially the author of the French equalizer (40th), but it is rather a csc of a Bosnian defender (Hadzikadunic). On the right in the defensive phase, he obviously wandered in the axis to play the playmaker but without ever creating danger, playing too sure. He has no key passes under his belt in 76 minutes, which is quite exceptional of him. He wasted an opportunity against (20th) and, when he tried his luck, he missed the frame (44th).
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Hugo Lloris (5)

He can do nothing on the nice goal of Dzeko (36th) and did not have to do anything else. Before that, he was vigilant on opposing balloons in depth (12th 14th).
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Jules Koundé (3)

Excluded in the 51st minute for a violent tackle at the Bosnian corner point (!), After a laborious performance. Exactly like against Portugal at the Euro, the central defender played right side and had the whole corridor to him, finding himself in a winger position without weighing offensively. Sometimes poorly placed in the defensive phase, it was taken over by Varane only in the 32nd minute … A failure from A to Z to be credited to the technical staff, clearly.
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Raphael Varane (5)

Called upon in the first period, he fought hard to make up for his own mistakes. He displayed an astonishing lack of communication with Koundé before speaking to his right side in the… 32nd minute. The Bosnians did not play in his zone afterwards.
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Presnel Kimpembe (4.5)

Little worried at the start of the match, he almost missed himself (22nd) before being unhappy on Dzeko’s goal, the ball passing between his legs (36th). Struggling with the Bosnian striker in the second half, he tried to contain him but was dominated on an occasion by the 35-year-old (81st).
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Lucas Digne (6)

First blocked by a Mbappé who evolved in front of him, he was served deep on the wing in 17th before gaining momentum. However, its centers have not found a taker. Defensively, he was not caught failing.
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Paul Pogba (4.5)

A full match on the part of “La Pioche”, especially in the game. He started many movements thanks to his quality of passing, as usual. Less successful, however, in his attempts in the second half.
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Thomas Lemar (3)

Another bad performance in EDF from the left-hander from Atlético, another bad choice from Deschamps. Even before being at the origin of the opening of the Bosnian score of a bad pass in the axis (36th), he lost balls easily and poorly measured his passes. He did not weigh on the match. Went out at the break.
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Jordan Veretout (4)

A truly failed international first. Placed in 6, in front of the defense, he mainly worked defensively. But, warned in the 30th, he is too passive on the Bosnian goal (36th). He would have brought more by moving higher to go to the pressing. Deschamps did not replace him and replaced him in the 53rd after the red given to Koundé.
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Aurélien Tchouaméni (6)

Launched in the second half, as a left torchbearer, he shone for his first. Imposing on recovery and intelligent on recovery when the Blues were at 10. He should have started in 6, clearly.
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Karim Benzema (4.5)

Little influence against a regrouped bloc. He picks up less than at Real so as not to annoy Griezmann and offers other things, like deep calls and one-touch discounts. At the finish, he was in lack of success: a failed face-to-face (4th), a long shot blocked (13th), a complicated header (20th).
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Kylian Mbappé (6)

A big expenditure of energy on the part of the number 10. Left winger, he brought the danger by his provocations balloon to the foot. He hit the post at a closed angle (27th). Replaced in peak for the last quarter of an hour, he lacked a second wind.

Silent for six matches with the Blues, Kylian Mbappé is going through his worst period in the France team.

The week will have been decidedly difficult for Kylian Mbappé. The France team was not the breath of fresh air hoped for after its abortive transfer to the real Madrid. Two months after the terrible disillusionment experienced against Switzerland, with the culmination of his missed goal, the tricolor world champion was left for another complicated evening.

Hit in the calf after an acceleration, the former Monegasque was certainly able to hold his place until his change in extra time, but if the exams passed this Thursday did not reveal anything, Didier Deschamps decided to play the card of the caution in allowing him to regain PSG. And Kylian Mbappé’s evening was all the more painful as he once again remained silent, prolonging his famine with the France team a little more. This meeting against Bosnia-Herzegovina is indeed the sixth game of Bondynois with the Blues without scoring.

His last goal in the selection dates back to the first preparation match against Wales and his scarcity has now lasted for 602 minutes. A terrible bad pass for the n 10 ‘tricolor but all in all common among the great strikers tricolor. Antoine Griezmann was able to remain seven matches without scoring with a shortage reaching 707 minutes. Olivier Giroud did worse with no less than 10 consecutive scoreless matches and 808 minutes without finding the loophole. But in this area, the prize obviously goes to Karim Benzema, the tricolor center forward in the worst famine in the French team. The Madrilenian had indeed chained no less than 15 matches without a goal for 1222 minutes of scarcity.

Kylian Mbappé

Antoine Griezmann (4/10)

Hugo Lloris (5)

Jules Koundé (3)

Raphael Varane (5)

Presnel Kimpembe (4.5)

Lucas Digne (6)

Paul Pogba (4.5)

Thomas Lemar (3)

Jordan Veretout (4)

Aurélien Tchouaméni (6)

Karim Benzema (4.5)

Kylian Mbappé (6)

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