The French national team will face the Croatian national team in the 2022-2023 UEFA Nations League. The League A Group 1 match took place at Poljud Stadium, Split, Tuesday (7/6/2022).
France coach Didier Deschamps fielded second-tier players when his team drew 1-1 with Croatia. In that match, France took the lead through Adrien Rabiot’s goal (52′) before Andrej Kramaric’s penalty (83′) equalized.
In that match, there were no famous names such as Karim Benzema, Kyllian Mbappe, and N’Golo Kante. -other.
Talking about the composition of his players in the match, Deschamps said that he needed to rotate players. The decision was taken in order to give rest time to the main players and playing time to the French second tier.
“We are doing good things considering all the changes. The result didn’t really satisfy me, but it made it possible to give a lot of players a chance,” said Deschamps, quoted by Foot Mercato, Tuesday (7/6/2022).
“It’s good with what awaits us at the end of the year, with the fixtures being close, I need to make a lot of changes,” he said.
Deschamps seemed to be listening to the complaints of his own assistant, Guy Stephan. Because, after the previous match when France lost 1-2 to Denmark, Stephan complained about the fitness of the main French players.
“They need to recover, we need freshness to express ourselves, we didn’t have that freshness today, there is a gap, we have to find depth,” Stephan said at the time.
