If we’re boring you, you can watch something else: Coach Didier Deschamps defends France’s style of play

France are yet to score from open play in this Euro, having notched up two own goals and a penalty. They have also won just 3 matches in the tournament compared to Spain’s 5.

France has underwhelmed and captain Kylian Mbappé is frustrated as he tries to adapt to wearing a vision-limiting face mask after breaking his nose in the opening match.

Also being called out for France’s lack of a cutting edge in attack is Antoine Griezmann, who has played in two positions — central midfield and on the right wing — and was even dropped for the group closer against Poland.

“We have 100% blind faith in (Mbappé and Griezmann) we know they are players that can change a match in an instant,” midfielder Adrien Rabiot said on Monday.

“We will need them … we are all very surprised as we know Antoine’s quality. I don’t know how to explain it, maybe he is a bit less well physically. We were expecting a lot more from Antoine but we are behind all of our players.”

(With Agency Inputs)