In football as in life, we can therefore be irresistible on Tuesday evening and unrecognizable the following Saturday.
The Blues made the bitter experience of it in the furnace of the Pukas Arena and in front of 55,998 excited spectators.
Facing Germany at the start of the week, the French public had the right to a show of force, mixing discipline, rigor and collective energy, for a success signed in the purest Deschamps style.
In front of the Hungarians four days later, none of that.
Asphyxiated, blunt and sometimes amorphous in the face of 37 degrees of temperature, an incandescent enclosure and Magyars authors of their greatest match in the 21st century, the world champions have delivered a disappointing copy.
Even tasteless.
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The Blues are masters of their destiny ... but no more joking
Despite everything, and here lies the most important, in a group F where there is no doubt three of the best teams in Europe, the France team remains master of his own destiny.
Without heating
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