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In general, the punishment for a stupid positional attack was going to fall on France sooner or later. But hardly anyone could expect him in the game against Finland.
The most interesting thing is that Suomi also played with absolute reserve. All the major players remained on the bench, from goalkeeper Hradetskiy to forward Pukki. At the same time, Pogba, Giroud, Dubois, Dinh, Lenglet came out at the French start, but in the end they only made it worse.
Newcomer Markus Thuram became the best French footballer on the field. His feints really created problems for the guests on the left flank. True, the shooting in the son of the record holder of the national team was not. When he threatened the goal himself after a corner kick, the ball hit the crossbar.
That episode remained France’s most moving in 90 minutes. The Finns, who had sat on defense from the start, fired a double midway through the first half. Forss ran into a counterattack after cutting through Sissoko, while Valakari fired a nine from outside the area. Paul Pogba only imitated the selection, but in fact he did not interfere at all with the Finn.
Both authors of Suomi’s goals, by the way, played their debut match with the national team today. Now they will remember it for life. Yes, and we don’t forget it quickly either.
After the break, the world champions, instead of breaking the snooty upstarts, allowed them to gain standards and threaten the goal, while they huddled themselves in boring canopies in the wrong half. The useless Pogba was replaced by the equally useless Griezmann – that’s the whole effect of rearrangements. Without Mbappé, France is not France.
Well, the Finns are to be congratulated. Nothing remained of the stereotype of the Scandinavian team. These guys know how to maintain structure, run counterattacks, they have individual ability to solve episodes. They certainly won’t spoil the euro porridge.
Paris. Stade de France
France – Finland – 0: 2
Goals: Forss, 28, Valakari, 31
France: Mandanda – Dubois, Zuma, Lengle (Varane, 80), Din – Sissoko, Nzonzi, Pogba (Kante, 57), Thuram – Ben Yedder (Griezmann, 57), Giroud (Marseille, 57)
Finland: Yoronen – Vaisanen (Arayuuri, 74), Oyala (Toivio, 66), O’Shaughnessy, Hamalainen – Niskanen (Alho, 67), Valakari (Taylor, 74), Schuler (Pukki, 80), Kauko – Karjalainen (Kamara, 66), Forss
