Antoine Griezmann has seemingly questioned Didier Deschamps’ France tactics while opening up on his disappointing Euro 2024 campaign.
France were dumped out of the Euro 2024 semi-finals by eventual champions Spain. Their progress to the last four was deceptive considering Didier Deschamps’ side only scored one goal from open play during the tournament. Atletico Madrid star Griezmann himself had a poor summer and has now appeared to question whether France’s struggles were due to the tactical and positional changes made by the head coach.
Speaking to Telefoot, Griezmann said: “There were a lot of changes to position, tactical changes, that we had to deal with. If I had managed to score those two goals against the Netherlands (0-0, in the group stages), I would have played another Euros. I didn’t have my best competition. I tried to adapt. There was a lot of frustration, a lot of anger because I never felt at the heart of the game as I like. There was this desire to do well, I think we had the team and the group to go all the way.”
Expectations for France are extremely high following their recent success under Deschamps. The 2018 World Cup winners made another final four years later, narrowly missing out to Argentina.
But with the squad changing and a new crop of young stars coming through, Deschamps is trying to integrate new players in different positions, which could be contributing to their struggles, particularly in the final third.
