Deschamps excited by France - Portugal Euro quarter final
Deschamps excited by France - Portugal Euro quarter final
04/07/2024
uefa24
Volksparkstadion, germany
04/07/2024
uefa24
Volksparkstadion, germany
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00:00Hello, everyone.
00:04Hello.
00:06They're anticipating.
00:08Did he raise his hand before?
00:10No.
00:16Hello, Didier.
00:18Yes, sorry, where is it?
00:20On your left.
00:22Arthur Perreault, RMC.
00:24What will determine your choice for the one who will replace Adrien tomorrow?
00:28A lighter question.
00:30We saw you wearing the Aviron Bayonet jersey again this morning with all the players.
00:34What did it do to you?
00:36Thanks.
00:38I have several possibilities in relation to the absence of Adrien.
00:42I'm not going to go into that.
00:44You know me.
00:46It's neither the time nor the hour.
00:48But if you have specific information about the Portugal team, I'll take it.
00:54Yes, it's a symbolic photo that we already had to take.
01:00It's important not to forget where we come from.
01:04Each of us with a first license in an amateur club.
01:08As far as I'm concerned, it was the Basque Country, the Aviron Bayonet.
01:12Where we play football too.
01:14There's not just rugby.
01:16It made me happy, like all the people who were concerned.
01:20I'm very happy to be able to take this photo.
01:26A nod to our origins.
01:28Good evening.
01:30It's true that the Parisian hasn't been able to play in the third game.
01:34How do you feel about the group at the start of this quarter-final?
01:40Good.
01:42Through what we did in the last game.
01:46We're trying to optimise the recovery with these four days.
01:52Obviously, there's a lot of work for the medical staff.
01:58But we're trying to optimise.
02:00We have four days.
02:02We're trying to distribute the two days that follow the recovery.
02:08Today, we're not going to do much.
02:10We're on the eve of the game.
02:12We're going to use the time and the space available.
02:18It will be useful for all the players tonight.
02:22But on the physical level, even if there are still disparities between the players.
02:30We were able to be present in every game.
02:34Maybe a little less in the third.
02:38There's a lot of intensity.
02:42Good evening, Didier.
02:44I have a question for Delena.
02:46Since the start of the Euro, the French team has shown great defensive control.
02:50That goes for the attacking players who put in the effort.
02:52Is it a success for your management to convince them to put in the effort,
02:56which may not be natural for them, for the good of the team?
02:58I didn't convince them.
03:00They do it because it goes that way.
03:02You can find some specific cases.
03:10It depends on what the opponent does.
03:14Beyond the fact that we have a defensive solidity,
03:18which is essential in such competitions.
03:22We also have a control that is slightly superior to the one we had.
03:28And superior to our opponents.
03:30Which is interesting.
03:32What is also interesting is the number of opportunities we can create.
03:38And what is less or more negative is the fact that our difficulty to be effective.
03:46Today, that's enough.
03:48But of course, because of the level that is increasing,
03:54and by saying that, I'm not going to say that Portugal is superior to Belgium.
03:58It may or may not be.
04:00It all depends on each other's lives.
04:02But yes, adding a better efficiency is important.
04:08Hello Didier.
04:10You just talked about your control in the previous matches.
04:14You had a bit more possession than in the past.
04:18Portugal is a team that has the most possession in this tournament.
04:22What do you expect in terms of strength in terms of control?
04:24Strength, of course.
04:26This team has that ability.
04:30And of course, they prefer to attack rather than defend.
04:36So it will be a matter of strength.
04:40But we've already had that.
04:42Tomorrow's match will happen as it will.
04:46But we met a team like the Netherlands,
04:48which had a lot of control.
04:50And when they played against us,
04:52they were relatively cautious,
04:54just as the Belgian team was also relatively cautious.
04:58Will Portugal have that attitude tomorrow?
05:04If you have any information, there are several possibilities.
05:08It's a new equation with a team from Portugal
05:12that can play in different systems.
05:14I know Roberto Martinez well, whom I appreciate.
05:16I know what he likes to do, what he does at times.
05:22Defending at three, being at four.
05:24He has different options, of course.
05:28But we will obviously try to have as much control as possible
05:32to impose on the opponent.
05:36Emmanuel Barranguet for AFP.
05:40Your captain and vice-captain, the two best players
05:44are not in full possession of their means.
05:48How can you find the parade collectively
05:50to support that and take into account
05:52their little less good shot at the Euro?
05:56That's the analysis you can do today.
06:02Even if it's not a similar case.
06:08Kylian had an advantage, obviously at the Euro.
06:12He had a good reaction, with a concern.
06:14We must not forget that the trauma he had
06:18is not something unusual.
06:20He feels good, obviously.
06:22The fact that he is getting stronger
06:24and that we will need a Kylian in the best form tomorrow,
06:28yes, that's important.
06:30Antoine, in terms of volume,
06:34he is always in figures or data
06:38more or less equal.
06:44In terms of technique or efficiency,
06:50he is inferior to what he could have been.
06:56It's not the others who will compensate.
06:58We will need all our players
07:02as much as possible tomorrow,
07:06to improve the quality of this Portuguese team.
07:08Good evening, Didier.
07:10Alessandro Antinelli, Rai Italia.
07:12Do you think that today's Portugal team
07:16is a stronger team than the team
07:18you met in the final in 2016?
07:22I don't even ask myself the question.
07:24They were strong.
07:26They did what they had to do.
07:28It was eight years ago.
07:30Congratulations to them,
07:32even if it was difficult and painful for us
07:34to be champions of Europe.
07:36Today, there is a place in the semi-final.
07:38I don't know if it is stronger or weaker.
07:40It is still as strong.
07:42Because Portugal, at the beginning of the competition,
07:44is one of the favourites of a team
07:46that has the legitimate ambition
07:48to be champions of Europe.
07:50But we are in the quarter-finals.
07:52In the quarter-finals,
07:54in the groups,
07:56everyone will have their own analysis.
07:58This group is weak, this one is hard,
08:00this one is less.
08:02When they meet,
08:04there is only one place.
08:06We will make sure that it is for us.
08:08Hello Didier.
08:10Kylian Mbappé
08:12spoke about Antoine Griezmann.
08:14Is there a need to support him
08:16in this more difficult moment for him?
08:18He is not depressed.
08:20I reassure you.
08:22I don't know the analysis
08:24you could have done.
08:26I will give you a little bit.
08:28It was not even about Antoine.
08:30Do you also think
08:32that we are too harsh
08:34with Marcus Thuram?
08:36Even if he is another status,
08:38another player.
08:40What do you think
08:42about his beginning of the tournament?
08:44I am not here to judge
08:46what you can say or write.
08:48You do your job.
08:50Some agree, some don't.
08:52The most important thing is that
08:54they know what I tell them.
08:56Whether it has an impact on them
08:58or if you are too harsh,
09:00not enough.
09:02If we go back a little bit,
09:04you were almost unanimous
09:06on the fact that our main concern
09:08is to take goals,
09:10to have a solidity.
09:12That's settled,
09:14we move on to something else.
09:16You didn't talk about something
09:18that is no longer relevant.
09:20At one point,
09:22they were all at the top.
09:24You will get bored,
09:26but whether it is Antoine
09:28or Marcus,
09:30obviously,
09:32there are positive things.
09:34There are things,
09:36and I tell them,
09:38where they are supposed
09:40to have an improvement.
09:42But it is also a complementarity
09:44in terms of positioning.
09:46What I ask them,
09:48the players who are next to them,
09:50behind them,
09:52it doesn't depend only on them.
09:54What arguments motivate you
09:56to make very few changes
09:58during the matches?
10:00Will it evolve
10:02depending on the competition?
10:04I'm not used to
10:06making changes for changes.
10:08It's true that
10:10I haven't done much
10:12until now.
10:14Given the intensity
10:16that there is,
10:18it's really not easy
10:20to come back.
10:22In the first two matches,
10:24even though in the last one,
10:26Moigny came back very well.
10:28And from the moment
10:30when those on the pitch,
10:32in my opinion,
10:34don't show any signs
10:36of fatigue,
10:38I change for change.
10:42But when I think
10:44what needs to be done,
10:46I do it.
10:48But it's true that
10:50it's the five changes.
10:54Do you see Cristiano Ronaldo
10:56as an offensive threat
10:58for the Blues?
11:00Yes, as he has always been.
11:02Because he has this ability,
11:04beyond the motivation
11:06that is in him,
11:08to win,
11:10to be decisive,
11:12to score goals.
11:14He has that.
11:16And he will always keep that.
11:18He has aged,
11:20but he is still
11:22a very, very great competitor.
11:48Does it sometimes bother you
11:50that the French team
11:52is so clinging?
11:54Not necessarily to us,
11:56the journalists,
11:58but to the fans,
12:00the former players?
12:02It's a team that sometimes
12:04annoys you.
12:06Does it sometimes bother you
12:08a little bit?
12:10Even if everything
12:12is obviously on you.
12:14Thank you.
12:16There are moments
12:18after a competition
12:20when we greet each other.
12:22We have a little more affinity,
12:24we know each other.
12:26It happens to exchange,
12:28when we can feed each other.
12:30I remember a discussion
12:32I had with Joachim Lowe
12:34after 2018.
12:36I won't tell you what he told me.
12:38Yes, yes.
12:40But from there
12:42to ask exactly
12:44what we have in common.
12:46Everyone
12:48has to manage
12:50his own selection.
12:52What is the
12:54Clivante?
12:56I don't know what
12:58Clivante means.
13:02I don't know.
13:04Everyone...
13:06Ah, a little bit of you sometimes.
13:10I don't look at anyone in particular.
13:12Listen,
13:14we have a popular enthusiasm
13:16that is there,
13:18whatever each of us thinks.
13:22Obviously, there are people
13:24who can be less happy,
13:26but I saw mostly,
13:28almost, and only,
13:30people happy at the last match.
13:32Even if there was tension.
13:34It was not a very open match,
13:36very tactical.
13:38It's more like winning a 5-4,
13:40it's not always football
13:42to win a 5-4.
13:44So,
13:46to be able to live
13:48such emotions and share them
13:50with the supporters
13:52who are more and more numerous at the stadium.
13:54The popular enthusiasm is there.
13:56And in front of the TV too,
13:58because we had a match
14:00at 6 p.m. and there are people working
14:02at that time.
14:04It makes a lot of people.
14:06You also work.
14:08The critics,
14:10you are there to do your job.
14:12You ask questions.
14:14As I talk a lot to my president,
14:16he asked me a lot of questions about me.
14:18I said, I'm sorry, president.
14:20Some of you.
14:22You do your job,
14:24I'm not there.
14:26The critics,
14:28they have always been part
14:30of my daily life.
14:32When I was a player,
14:34coach or coach.
14:36I'm not saying that
14:38a few years ago,
14:40I lived the situation
14:42in the same way.
14:44Today, they are there.
14:48In relation to that,
14:50it doesn't prevent me
14:52to live very well,
14:54serenely and quietly.
14:56We'll take one last question.
14:58Thank you for the opportunity
15:00to ask a question for TV Portugal.
15:02I want to speak in Portuguese, please.
15:04I'm not going to understand.
15:10Historically,
15:12France...
15:14Historically, France...
15:16It's coming.
15:18Historically,
15:20France wins...
15:22Let me hear you.
15:24Historically, France wins
15:26against Portugal in the finals
15:28of the European or World Cup.
15:30Except for 2016.
15:32There have always been
15:34difficult games
15:36with very short results
15:38and extra time.
15:40Do you believe that tomorrow
15:42will be like this or not?
15:52I don't know
15:54if it will be the same,
15:56but these are very high-level matches.
15:58Obviously,
16:00there are few things
16:02with the ability
16:04to have players
16:06who can make the difference.
16:08There are many qualities
16:10in this team,
16:12as there are in France.
16:14It's one of the best European teams.
16:16So, of course,
16:18I'm convinced
16:20that it will be a big game tomorrow.
16:22Historically,
16:24it has always been
16:26tight scores,
16:28but when you get to this level
16:30of competition,
16:32it's rare to have
16:34big gaps in results.
16:36It can happen,
16:38but because of what this team
16:40is capable of,
16:42and us too,
16:44it's a big quarter-final display,
16:46as there will be others
16:48before us,
16:50another at 6pm.
16:52Thank you.
16:54Training at 6pm,
16:56thank you very much.
16:58We will be back here
17:00for the Portugal press conference
17:02at 7.45pm,
17:04and before then, France training at 6pm.