The France full-back believes that France have the ability to send Spain packing and progress to the semi-finals of Euro 2012
Defeat against an already-eliminated http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sweden-c3015 side on Tuesday pushed Les Bleus to settle for second spot in their group behind the Three Lions. Failure to top the group has forced France to face the reigning champions in the quarter-finals.
The prospect of facing one of the best teams in the world has not hampered France’s hopes of causing an upset. Mathieu Debuchy, who is in tremendous form at the tournament, has voiced his opinion on http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/France-c2899’s chances against the World Champions.
The Lille right-back feels that Les Bleus have what it takes to beat http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vicente-c36001 del Bosque’s side have great players with previous European
experience unlike France.
"They are a great team with great players. The key will be taking the ball from them, which obviously will not be easy, because they are best in the world to keep it, so the key is to stay calm and take advantage of the spaces they leave for us.”
The right-back expressed his disappointment over France’s shock loss to Sweden. Debuchy denied that his team-mates underestimated their opponents but admitted that the overall performance of Les Bleus was very poor.
"We did not play well, not as usual. We knew the game would be difficult, it was not overconfidence, we were simply not up to par," Debuchy said.
While http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mathieu-Debuchy-c24682 was not impressed by his side’s performance against the Scandinavian country, progressing to the knock-out stages of the competition pleased the Frenchman.
"I am very disappointed with the game but overall pleased to have qualified for the quarter-finals. That was our original goal and we delivered.”
Debuchy revealed that Les Bleus wanted to win their group and failure to achieve that is indeed disappointing. But keeping in mind the performance of France in last two major international tournaments, this is a positive result for the team.
France will face the Spain in quarter-finals that will take place in Donetsk on Saturday.
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