Didier Deschamps was wrong in his knockout round of the Euro lost (3-3, 4 tab to 5) against Switzerland on Monday? Listening to José Mourinho, the answer is yes. The new coach of AS Rome, consultant of talkSport radio during the competition, split in his morning column with a small tackle to the coach of the Blues. His complaint? The replacement of Antoine Griezmann by Moussa Sissoko in the 88th minute, while the France team led 3-2 against the Swiss selection. Two minutes later, the Nati equalized and took the Blues for another thirty minutes and a fatal shootout.
“I also believe that Deschamps made a mistake that I often think of, criticized the former Tottenham coach.
When you are in a game where there is the possibility of playing an extra time, you have to be really careful with the substitutions you make.
When you make a change in the 89th and you take out one of your best players… When you have Griezmann, who was playing incredibly well, and you make that change Griezmann by Sissoko.
If it's a three-point game without overtime, okay.
But when there is the possibility of an overtime, it's a huge gamble.
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“They had fun too early.”
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“Deschamps made one mistake that I have been thinking about many, many times.”
José Mourinho explains where it all went wrong for France at # EURO2020.
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"If you make that change and the opponent draws a score in the 91st or 92nd and you end up in overtime.
Afterwards, you want to shoot yourself because you took Griezmann out for extra time, said the one who believes that the Blues relaxed too quickly in Bucharest.
And on top of that you have the situation, which you can't control, of Benzema getting injured or whatever, and you lose two great attackers.
During extra time, we never had the feeling that France could win.
Because she didn't have the power to do it.
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"Deschamps knows he made a mistake"
“I believe that at this moment, Deschamps knows he made a mistake, concluded the Portuguese technician. It can happen to all of us, but experience helps us. I think when there is a chance to have an overtime, you don't take out one of your best players. The entry of Moussa Sissoko could however have avoided the Blues to inflict an extension. In regular time stoppage time, the Tottenham midfielder found Kingsley Coman in the box whose strike crashed into the Swiss bar.
José Mourinho had estimated before the start of the competition, in the column he maintains for the newspaper The Sun, that the Euro des Bleus would be "missed" if they did not win in the final on July 11 . "José, I thought the same thing about his Tottenham team, but it did not go as planned," Didier Deschamps replied with a smile on the set of Téléfoot.