L’Equipe savage France with Mbappe scoring just 3/10 for his display against Spain

Leading French sports newspaper L’Equipe showed small sympathy for Les Bleus this greeting pursuing their Euro 2024 exit, hammering Didier Deschamps and his players for different dour display.

France went retired astatine nan semi-final shape aft a 2-1 conclusion to Spain pinch Randal Kolo Muani’s early header nan only extremity scored by a personnel of nan France squad from unfastened play passim nan tournament.

Lamine Yamal coiled location a stunning equaliser and Dani Olmo scored again for Spain 4 minutes later to unafraid them a spot successful Sunday’s last against either England aliases nan Netherlands.

Under nan header “unmasked” – a reference to nan truth skipper Kylian Mbappe was capable to play without nan usage of a look disguise aft he collapsed his chemoreceptor against Austria – L’Equipe elaborate their displeasure successful their famously harsh subordinate ratings.

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Mbappe scored conscionable 3/10 pinch L’Equipe captious of his finishing aft he blazed an fantabulous second-half chance complete nan bar.

His chap forwards fared small amended pinch Ousmane Dembele besides awarded 3/10 pinch Kolo Muani getting 4/10 having astatine slightest recovered nan backmost of nan net.

Every personnel of France’s three-man midfield – N’Golo Kante, Aurelien Tchouameni and Adrien Rabiot – scored 3/10 aft being overrun for overmuch of nan contest.

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L’Equipe wrote that Rabiot “didn’t exist”, Tchouameni had a “nightmare betwixt nan lines” and Kante offered “defensive screen acold beneath his accustomed standard”.

Yamal was Spain’s outstanding subordinate connected nan night, giving Theo Hernandez a torrid clip down France’s near side.

The Milan full-back was nan lowest scorer, getting conscionable 2/10 aft failing to shackle nan 16-year-old superstar.

Jules Kounde was handed a 5/10 pinch Dayot Upamecano and goalkeeper Mike Maignan fours.

Arsenal defender William Saliba continued his awesome shape pinch nan comparatively lofty standing of 6/10 pinch L’Equipe describing him arsenic France’s “most reliable defender”.

Deschamps’ early has been called into mobility pursuing their displays successful Germany. The 55-year-old has been successful complaint for 12 years and led Les Bleus to a World Cup triumph successful 2018 arsenic good arsenic nan last 4 years later and nan last of Euro 2016.

But he was not spared, scoring a 3/10 pinch his squad accused of playing nan 2nd half “like they had a consequence to preserve, not an equaliser to score”.