In Bosnia, the Blues carry out a perfect accounting exercise for their qualification

Even with his legendary oratorical prudence, Hugo Lloris very quickly spat the song after this Bosnia – France (0-1), sad as endless confinement: “We played badly but we won with the state of mind”, declared the guard at the microphone of M6. We imagine that the captain of the Blues prefers to give more importance to the second part of the sentence than its preamble. He is in his role.

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The state of mind is a bit like the suitcase concept dear to this French team on which criticism slips on the lack of gameplay or other boredom trials. The demonstrations of force, the men of Didier Deschamps leave that to others, as to this beautiful and proud Belgium during its offensive recital against Belarus the day before (8-0).

The Blues are content with simpler pleasure. They like to count the points in their qualifying group for the 2022 World Cup (seven in three games) and see the gap already widening with Ukraine, this supposed rival but unable to beat modest Kazakhstan (1-1). Not even halfway in these qualifiers, Qatar is already looming.

With three games in eight days, 10,000 kilometers of travel above the floor of the cows and workouts transformed into simple scrubs, the context has certainly not helped to promote the expression of a reinvigorated collective expression. After a sluggish draw against Ukraine (1-1) and a stingy success in Kazakhstan (2-0), France did not play better in Bosnia. “In the content, we are able to do better”, concedes a Deschamps in a patented formula by dint of being worn.

In the first half, his team did little and even left control of the game, at times, to the Bosnians of Edin Dzeko and Miralem Pjanic. To celebrate its 123e selection and equal Thierry Henry, Hugo Lloris released two decisive saves on a shot from Darko Todorovic (24e) then a point blank shot from Dennis Hadzikadunic (26e). “It was a bit laborious especially in the first half. We struggled with the use of the ball especially and they put us in danger on the counter-attacks ”, summed up the person concerned.

For the rest, Paul Pogba mainly practiced his Italian to discuss with the referee of the match, Kylian Mbappé (positioned as center forward) made a third copy tasteless, the side did not bring a dangerous center and Kingsley Coman was the first to come out yet without being worse than another.

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