Although carried by the best player in the world, Karim Benzema, still on the rise in football - a form of levitation that he must maintain at least until the end of the year at the World Cup - the France team is blocked in this new League of Nations season, the most distant goal of 2022 but the closest to the calendar.
They confirm that in June, it is less good, a historical fault of these Blues.
And lose for the first time since November 2020, already at home, against Finland (0-2).
Against the Danes, the Blues never managed to be as big as Benzema, but the Madridista made them a little less transparent than they wanted and ended up getting through defensive weaknesses and largesse.
Many have indeed hidden during this international recovery, apart from the European champion.
Benzema goes through the era with a triumphant aura and the idea is that this sweet moment lasts.
His surroundings failed to follow with some lackluster performances and struggling understudy, as William Saliba's entry testifies.
It is on this kind of meeting that a place in the World Cup is decided and Saliba still seems far from it.
Apart from Benzema, little danger ahead
The first period of this France-Denmark will have given a concentrate of the failed evening of the Blues, with everything that we do not like about them and which is a bit of the system, still in the run-in, or of the men, some forgetting to to be convincing.
The Blues created little danger in front, apart from Benzema already, under the double burden of any offensive animation, and two lost pistons, Theo Hernandez on the left and Kingsley Coman on the right.
The two corridors have never looked like a threat, referring to the absence of Paul Pogba, the best launching pad in the usual three-color eleven.
In the offensive game, he has no equivalent, even if he has other faults elsewhere.
Like rotten fruit on this indigestible pudding, these 45 minutes upside down ended with the injury of Kylian Mbappé, suffering from the left knee and replaced after the break by Christopher Nkunku.
Raphaël Varane, also for a left knee, will follow in the second half.
The two Munich residents, Lucas Hernandez and Coman, had no competition for three weeks, Mbappé since May 21 and the closing of L1 by a PSG-Metz announcing its Parisian extension.
Nice calendar to register four matches in eleven days after two or three weeks of cut.
In fact, we had to play the Champions League final here to keep up the pace.
Funny architecture than that of the authorities which complicate what is simple, to the detriment of the health of the footballers.
The Blues have already lost a game and two players with three games remaining.
Including the following on Monday, June 6 in Croatia.
