Beauty is often bizarre and sometimes appears out of nowhere.
So you had to be in France-Ukraine or rather in front of your TV (because of the Covid-19) to lift the lid and discover the mountains and wonders of a French team decided to spice up the evening.
Sunday, against Portugal, the big cavalry will return, from Lloris to Griezmann, but we will not have forgotten anything.
Because, finally, France-Ukraine has crunched in history, with an infernal duo, from the youngest to the oldest of the field players: the improbable doublet Eduardo Camavinga-Olivier Giroud.
The first, with a silky and lobbing Bushchan return, was the youngest scorer of the post-war France team, the second after Maurice Gastiger, scorer at 17 years and 5 months, on March 8, 1914 We will not be able to bring them together for a photo and it is possible that the image of eternal joy of the Rennes prodigy of 17 years and 10 months (18 years old on November 10) will prevail forever.
It's the same as Alain Giresse at the 1982 World Cup in the semi-final against Germany, this kind of explosion which owes as much to the love of football as to that of the national team, all mixed with intimate springs that refer to the meaning they give to their existence in their profession.
They are there to put their name in a story and it shows.
Camavinga, followed by Real Madrid and PSG, gives the impression of wanting to take everything in the same logic as Kylian Mbappé, who appeared in the Habs in March 2017.
Platini equaled then surpassed
We remember everything, the first goals of Zinedine Zidane during his first selection as Marvin Martin or Julien Faubert (only 1 selection) but we already know which way the story will switch.
He may not be a Ballon d'Or or Real Madrid coach one day, but Camavinga has this technical supplement, this game intelligence, this left paw with a taste of paradise that allows him to forge a destiny.
His continues and we can now write in the same sentence the names of Michel Platini and Olivier Giroud, which was not won when the Savoyard landed in selection in November 2011. The second exceeds the first in the number of goals, ensuring at each exit a little more his place in the 23 of Euro 2021 even though Chelsea confines him to the crumbs.
You shouldn't blame the Blues: they physically support a striker who scores when he joins his national team, his real club in fact.
Thanks for him.
On the night it was needed, the former Montpellier equaled the ex-UEFA boss with a prodigious goal, wrapping his dream in a ball coiled in the skylight.
Camavinga kicked off the night of great love with a brilliant inspiration and the old man felt compelled to rise to the occasion, even adding a personal second goal.
For the rest, the Blues unfolded, with a hollow after returning from the locker room, marked by three immediate changes including the first cape of Mike Maignan and a Ukrainian goal.
But the score will be quickly forgotten, not these two records offered in 90 minutes by the lively Blues.
Match sheet
Half-time:
4-0.
Spectators:
1000.
Referee:
M. Treimanis (Let).
Goals.
France: Camavinga (9th), Giroud (24th, 34th), Mykolenko (39th, csc), Tolisso (65th), Mbappé (82nd), Griezmann (88th).
Ukraine:
Tsygankov (52nd).
Warnings.
Ukraine: Malinovskyi (43rd), Kharatin (51st).
France:
Mandanda (Maignan, 46th) - Pavard, Upamecano (Varane, 46th), Lenglet, Digne - Nzonzi, Camavinga (Pogba, 59th), Tolisso, Aouar (Griezmann, 59th) - Giroud (cap.) (Ben Yedder, 73rd ), Martial (Mbappé, 46th).
Entr.
:
Deschamps.
Ukraine:
Bushchan - Konoplia, Zabarnyi, Mykolenko, Mykhaylichenko (Sobol, 46th) - Makarenko (Shepelev, 62nd), Kharatin, Shaparenko - Malinovskyi (Tsygankov, 46th), Yarmolenko (cap.) (Yaremchubuk, 62nd, Zus), 71st).
Entr.
:
Shevchenko.
