After the disappointing 1-1 draw against Ukraine at the start of the 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign, France accuse the striker: "Maybe this is how he will start learning to play more as a team" • Shevchenko: "The tactic was clear - each time there was one player putting pressure on him and another From the "force"
Frustrated Ambape, last night in Paris
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The 2018 world champion - France, opened last night (Wednesday) the 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign in Qatar in a match against the Ukrainian team in Paris and although this is only the beginning, tricolor can be worried.
Didier Deschamps and his team finished only 1: 1 against the guest who managed to get an expensive point, in a game in which she mostly defended.
Antoine Griezmann scored first but has seen his friend Personnel Kimpamba since the result in an own goal.
The one who provided a particularly weak game was PSG star Killian Ambape.
The young striker was unable to cope with the guest defense, looked nervous and in situations he got into he tried to do things on his own.
The French media did not like his appearance to say the least when one of the commentators took the criticism one step further.
"You have to send him tapes of Thierry Henry to learn how to play with control, touch, without getting too involved," he said. "He needs to know how to play for the team and not for himself," he continued.
Ukraine coach Andrei Shevchenko admitted at the end that most of the attention in his tactical briefing was directed towards the talented striker.
"Ambape is unstoppable when he has areas on offense. That's why we put more players in his wing," he said.
"The tactic was clear - each time there was one player putting pressure on him, and another player covering up and making sure he didn't have one-on-one space. It worked."
Didier Deschamps said after the game: "We had to gain confidence in the first half because we had opportunities. In the second we already had a harder time, we faced a strong opponent and conceded a goal that could not really be prevented. We fought to the end and we are probably disappointed, our goal is always "But Ukraine is good and they have already proven that against other teams. We have a long journey and it has only just begun. We should not act like everything is black, of course we can always be better on offense. We needed a little more precision."
