Quote from: SquallLeonhart on January 18, 2023, 09:08:04 PM

Quote from: Sithara007 on January 18, 2023, 03:52:29 AM

France was lucky and avoided quality opponents in most of their matches. During the group stage, they were placed in one of the easiest groups along with Australia, Tunisia and Danmark. For the Round of 16, they got a weak opponent in the form of Poland. The only tough match for them before the final was the quarter-final clash, where they had to play against England. Even during the semi-final they got the weakest possible opponent (Morocco). IMO, Croatia and Portugal performed better than France during Qatar 2022. Probably Netherlands as well.

I agree, for 80 minutes it was pure Argentina and I really enjoyed watching it that way too, just to see a team win and it was world cup finals so it wasn't really a bad game, sometimes it just one team winning.

But then Mbappe happened and suddenly we got a very close game, not even just that but after that 3-3, we had one position where Kolo was against Martinez and everyone looked at that as a sure thing, even French players got inside the field for a short meter or two to celebrate and then Martinez saved it. All in all it was the craziest game I have seen in a long time. 99% sure that France could be easy winners for this Euro, they are still quite young to keep winning.

I was not impressed by France and I don't see them as favorites in the European Championship, at least not as main favourites.
At the last European Championship, they were very bad and lost to Switzerland, and in the last edition of the League of Nations, they also played very badly and almost dropped out of the elite group.
At the world cup, they managed to reach the final, but they were not very convincing to me and they were also lucky.
It seems to me that the relations between individual players are not the best, especially between Mbappe and Benzema and this conflict probably affects the whole team.
I think that England, Holland and Italy will also have a great chance at the European Championship.