After the encounter against Morocco, France approaches the finals fatigued.
Les Bleus defeated Atlas Lions 2-0 to go to the World Cup final, but they are worn out ahead of their last encounter against Argentina, where France will attempt to win the tournament for the second time in a row.
Did Morocco wear out France in the World Cup semifinals? After a battle that lasted 99 minutes, the Blues defeated the Atlas Lions. "We lost the game, to be really honest. We exerted a lot of physical effort because the competition is lengthy and we chained several intense matches together "Aurélien Tchouaméni, 22, admitted to being the holder for the six World Cup games that were played to the journal Le Nouvelliste. He has accrued 552 minutes by himself. The Real Madrid midfielder said, "The England-Morocco sequence damaged us physically," and expressed his hope that he and his squad will fully heal before the encounter against Argentina.
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Hugo Lloris, the captain of the Blues, expressed a similar sentiment. He stated, "We worked so hard and went through so much suffering that we come out of a match like this, depleted. having an effect on their training already. The holders from the previous day received attention from the physiotherapists on Thursday. According to the French Football Federation (FFF), they just ran or pedaled while the rest engaged in a "more strenuous session (warm-up, toro, reduced game 5 vs 5 with a joker player)".
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In addition to exhaustion, some of Kylian Mpabbé's teammates face another physical difficulty: a "cold snap". “Temperatures have rather dropped” recently in Qatar, a country where there is also always “air conditioning on full”, explained in a press conference Didier Deschamps, the coach of the France team, suspecting a possible virus. “Anything viral is transmissible. We took precautions so that there was no contact.