The France coach was far from satisfied with his side’s performance against the Three Lions and has called for major improvement from his players in the game against Ukraine
France were held to a 1-1 draw by England despite having an upper hand against their rivals for the most part of the match. Samir Nasri’s strike, late in the first half cancelled out Joleon Lescott’s header that stretched Les Bleus unbeaten run to 22 matches.
The France coach has expressed his dissatisfaction over the way England played. However, the 46-year-old tactician accepted that his team were wasteful on certain occasions and France could have lost the match. Although the Frenchman is of the view that
France were the better side of the two.
“The feeling of disappointment has taken over. We must be realistic with our opening match, we could have lost. But France played more productive football not http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/England-c749, which is the best team in the group”
However, the former Manchester United player has stated that there is obvious room of improvement but his players performed relatively well and the Frenchman has praised the spirit of his players.
“I am happy for the players. The conditions were complicated for both teams and players have shown an amazing spirit"
Laurent Blanc has asked his players to show more self-belief and wants his player to take more risks in their upcoming matches.
"We need to show more self-belief and assurance in these types of big matches. If you are shy, and if you don't take risks, you will get punished. We should have played with more width than we did and that is something we have to work on.”
On a question of possible changes in the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899’s line-up for their next match, especially after the news of M’Vila being fully fit, Blanc said that any such decision will be taken after solid consideration.
The Frenchman stated that the game against Ukraine would be very tough and France need to perform brilliantly and Les Bleus are not taking that game easily by any means.
“We are going to evaluate all of this and decide if we have to make any changes because the game against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ukraine-c3032 is going to be very tough, very complicated for us."
Despite only managing to get a point from their opening game, Laurent Blanc sees this as a bright start for team France and hopes for nothing but a victory against Ukraine.
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