The match played between France and England has been the typical debut match in a final between two teams that happen to be the top seeds of its group ahead having meetings with the two combined are a priori weaker a tie is considered a good way to start the championship. This conservative thought plaguing us all every time you start a tournament of this nature, to the extent that one feels to live a déjà vu that goes back to the past, many parties and disappointed him until he got bored.
With Rooney serving penance and a rookie coach still in office, it is certain that England will not do anymore. Casualties of Lampard and, above all, Barry and Wilshere, limit options in midfield and Roy Hodgson can not be attributed with a better choice than Parker-Gerrard. Also up: Carroll, pointing away from the level a couple of years, would not provide much more than Welbeck or Young. To his credit, daring to align Oxlade-Chamberlain holder with just 18.
To be Frenchman, Laurent Blanc feared the sky fall on your head and much more. France saw its potential reduced by the conservatism of his coach, who dared not only to wait and see if its trio of stars solved the game. The first resignation of French coach was sacrificing a technical man to cement his midfield with a trivote. Malouda is a shadow of its former and France would gain apart from him, leaving Diarra and Cambeye as double pivot (possibly enter M'Vila when he recovers), adding another man band attack and thus free for Nasri move around the center and between the lines.
With Nasri and Ribery starting from the sidelines, Benzema to move too much to partner with them and is more difficult for the three participate in the same stage of an attack. The French striker of Real Madrid continues to demonstrate that it is in a state of admirable form and game, making it, if not the best striker in the world, at least in the most complete. (An aside: great and moving the image that have caught your laptop .)
The trivote Blanc used to what works and, of course, was useless to defend themselves when the best weapon of the English: the game by. Thus came the first goal on the half hour, with a great center of Gerrard who sent the network Lescott ahead of everyone. The much English was the best thing that could happen to the party, at least for France had just by putting up the fourth, not fifth, and put more vigor to their intentions.
Les Bleus were quick to equalize the contest, just ten minutes thanks to a great shot of Nasri after transfer of Ribery. The equalizer was an invitation for daring to trust Blanc in a more offensive and less timid. With just enough change: Malouda outside and inside Ben Arfa, Nasri going to the center, or put Valbuena to create a line of three with the citizen and Ribery could take different sides, or even reference Giroud, with Benzema displaced the left and Nasri in the midfield.
Blanc came the break and did not change anything. Ten minutes, twenty, thirty ... and nothing changed Blanc. Up to 39 minutes did nothing, when he made a double substitution: Martin and Ben Arfa by Cabaye and Malouda. Too late. Hodgson responded just minutes before but who takes the initiative has the merit of doing it alone, while the latter is suspected of doing and thinking about the opponent. Only when the English moved his last pieces, the French dared to move his.
The second time was moved from start to finish in a steady tone: France retained control of the ball, played it a lot, always looking for Nasri, Benzema or Ribery, but England had only to maintain order and to counter stress wishes Gauls. Milner and Chamberlain helped at all times to your side and Rose Team never found uncomfortable ceding the initiative to his rival, totally willing to put all his chips to a backlash or a dead-ball situation. So after ninety minutes, we return to the top: from an England that do not give much too conservative and Blanc, the party was in the typical first-round mediocrity.
For the next day I hope to see a more attacking France, we are in the hands of its coach. Blanc has all the credit he deserves for having managed to assemble a team as well promising after picked up where he left Domenech, but much depends on him that the promise can be realized. England, with Rooney still praying Hail Mary's, will have to play many of their aspirations against Sweden, a team that is not so inferior to English as some people can say their names, and in which only Ibrahimovic has more bite than half of the offensive parts of Hodgson.
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