“We can’t do worse! It’s a World Cup final!! » Half-time in the 2022 World Cup final against Argentina, which leads 2-0 and dominated the apathetic Blues: Kylian Mbappé sounds the revolt in the locker room.
Until then in the competition, the “executives” Raphaël Varane, Olivier Giroud and to a lesser extent Hugo Lloris had been those who encouraged their young partners, according to the images of the documentary “Thank you Blues” broadcast Tuesday, December 20 on TF1 and which traces the epic of the French team in Qatar.
“It’s the game of a lifetime! »
But while the dream of a third star seems compromised, it is Kylian Mbappé, 23, who sounds the revolt.
“It’s a World Cup guys, it’s the game of a lifetime! Anyway, we can’t do worse than what we did.”he says to his teammates.
“We go back to the field: either we let them play dumb, or we put on a little intensity, we get into the duels and we do something else guys. It’s a World Cup final! We are trailing by two goals. We can come back! Oh guys, it’s something like this every four years”he continues.
“We’ve all done it once, turn the game around”
In the process, it is the dean of the Blues, the substitute goalkeeper Steve Mandanda, who from the top of his 37 years, gives voice.
“Now guys it’s done, we lose 2-0 (…) We all did it once, turn the game around. And it is possible. But you have to go on the field with another state of mind, guys. It’s not possible to do that! »
Coach Didier Deschamps, who has already made two substitutions even before half-time, takes the floor, visibly overwhelmed.
“Guys I’ll tell you without getting upset. Do you know the difference? It’s because they, over there, are playing a fucking World Cup final and we’re not playing it! »
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The rest is a French team which returns to the field with more conviction and commitment until obtaining a penalty that Kylian Mbappé will convert in the 80th minute.
The first goal of his historic hat-trick which will bring the final, lost by the Blues on penalties (3-3 after, 4-2 on pens), into the annals of the World Cup.