The notes of the Blues at the World Cup: Mbappé in jail, the promises of Upamecano

Let’s not sulk our pleasure: the Blues in the World Cup final, it’s a hell of a performance. Fourth final since 1998, the second in a row. Of course, we would have preferred this campaign to end with a third star on the shirt. The Habs too, like a closed-faced Kylian Mbappé on the podium, when he received his tournament top scorer trophy, when he got off the plane on Monday and again on the balcony of the Hôtel Crillon, against an audience of 50,000 supporters on Monday evening. The culture of winning…”You have to give a lot of credit to the France team with everything that happened, the injuries, all the circumstances, we still showed a beautiful face“Summarizes Hugo Lloris, not forgetting the many packages (Kanté, Pogba, Benzema…) and this virus which has come to disrupt the last few days (Rabiot, Varane, Upamecano…).

Review of the performances of Didier Deschamps’ players in Qatar, with the average ratings awarded by our special correspondents, Baptiste Desprez and Christophe Remise. The method ? You must have played at least 45 minutes in a match to be rated. We have chosen to take into account players who have been rated at least three times during the World Cup. If he appeared six times, Kingsley Coman is therefore excluded. Holder on one occasion and entered the game five times, he was finally noted only twice, during France-Tunisia (0-1), the match of the “hairdressers”, and Argentina (3-3 ap , 4-2 tabs). Ditto for… Left-back Eduardo Camavinga. It should be noted that with the exception of Karim Benzema (withdrawal before the first match) and Alphonse Areola (3rd goalkeeper), all the Blues present in Doha played, from Aurélien Tchouameni (7 matches and 624 minutes) to William Saliba ( 1 game, 27 mins). Although, the lowest playing time goes to the unfortunate Lucas Hernandez (13 minutes).