If we’re boring you, you can watch something else: Coach Didier Deschamps defends France’s style of play

French coach Didier Deschamps said on the eve of the semifinal match against Spain that he does not care if France play boring football and asked the critics to “watch something else.”

“If we’re boring you, you can watch something else, it doesn’t matter. It’s a very particular European Championship, with less goals than normal. We have the chance to make France happy, in a delicate situation for the country. If (others) are bored, I don’t really care,” he said.

France are yet to score from open play in this Euro, having notched up two own goals and a penalty. They have also won just 3 matches in the tournament compared to Spain’s 5.

France has underwhelmed and captain Kylian Mbappé is frustrated as he tries to adapt to wearing a vision-limiting face mask after breaking his nose in the opening match.

Also being called out for France’s lack of a cutting edge in attack is Antoine Griezmann, who has played in two positions — central midfield and on the right wing — and was even dropped for the group closer against Poland.

“We have 100% blind faith in (Mbappé and Griezmann) we know they are players that can change a match in an instant,” midfielder Adrien Rabiot said on Monday.

“We will need them … we are all very surprised as we know Antoine’s quality. I don’t know how to explain it, maybe he is a bit less well physically. We were expecting a lot more from Antoine but we are behind all of our players.”

(With Agency Inputs)

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