The Blues missed their entry into the running, to put it mildly. Swept by Mexico (4-1), the French Olympic team has started its tournament badly and will already play its life against South Africa on Sunday. Questioned in the mixed zone by the Team, André-Pierre Gignac did not try to find excuses for himself and his teammates: “It is more than deserved, we must say what is. They put everything in their basket and we put a little too nothing. I think we are lucky not to come away with five or six goals. We lacked experience, concentration, aggressiveness, everything. We'll have to put our heads right to qualify because I don't want to return to France after the third match. We were capable of better, we showed it against South Korea
(2-1, in a friendly last Friday)
.
That's it, we entered the competition and it will be complicated because we have matches every three days but we have to find a solution.
"
The other confirmed player of the team, striker Florian Thauvin, acquires.
“We fell against a great team from Mexico, we got moving athletically.
We saw a team that was much more ready than us physically.
It was a difficult match and it's difficult to start the competition like that but we have no choice, we will have to find solutions to make it go better.
We had trouble keeping up with them, we lost a lot of duels ”.
Thauvin concludes: “We cannot find excuses.
We will have to do better in three days.
Otherwise, it will already be elimination.
