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Fortunately without consequence: the captain and guardian of France Hugo Lloris committed a blunder that cost a goal in the final of the World Cup-2018 Sunday against Croatia. That did not stop him from lifting the most beautiful trophy, Sunday in Moscow.
Lloris is rarely caught out in the jersey of the French team, and has achieved a superb World Cup. But on Sunday and under the eyes of the world, the Croatian center-forward Mario Mandzukic, who had scored against his side in the first half, pressed the keeper of the Blues to close the gap to 4-2, the 69th
It may have sent the Tottenham goalkeeper back a few months back to Stockholm in June 2017 when he had offered Sweden, with a rough blunder, an unexpected victory (2-1). Who put the French team under pressure in the prospect of qualifying for the World-2018.
– Second line in the winners –
But all is well that ends well for him, with a second star to hang in the jersey in the evening of his 104th selection, and a second line to his list of achievements which had until then only a victory in the Coupe de France won in 2012 with the Olympique Lyonnais against Quevilly.
Le Niçois, 31, will have He had to be patient to garnish his trophy cabinet with the most beautiful cup, which he was the first of his teammates to lift on Sunday in the pouring rain. Twenty years after his coach Didier Deschamps, captain of the France 1998 team.
Two years earlier, Lloris had narrowly missed a European championship title, masked at the start of the not so dangerous shot, but finally decisive, of the Portuguese striker Eder
"It's a game that you can always see again, look after, at this moment of the match we miss a little freshness, lucidity, all huh, it's not so much the batter is what happens before, "he badyzes in the wake, before the press. Was this the case also Sunday at Lukiniki?
Lloris, a man of few words but of a great lucidity, is in any case the type to always badume these errors. Not to mention the blunder against Mandzukic, they were not legion at the World-2018 … On the contrary.
– Decisive against Uruguay and Belgium –
In front, against Australia (2-1), he had allowed France to enter the competition, including a reflex stop on an attempt deviated by his teammate Corentin Tolisso.
Above all, he came out of high-clbad saves against Uruguay in the quarter-finals (2-0), on an attempt from side Martin Caceres just before half-time and to preserve the advantage at score, and in the semi-finals against Belgium (1-0), stopping an attempt by Toby Alderweireld, a dangerous center from Kevin De Bruyne or a far-off shot by Axel Witsel
Finally, the captain held the hut when the Croats made a martyrdom in his defense, shaken as ever. He had only one boxing ball in the first period, but he did it with authority (24th)
And early in the second half, on the big Croatian weather and before Paul Pogba and Kylian Mbappé did not go out on the fiery "Vatreni", he picked up a good center from Sime Vrsaljko (46 '), hijacked an attempt by Ante Rebic (48') and perfectly resisted a breakthrough by Ivan Perisic (49 ').
Then there was Mandzukic's goal, but he might make Lloris smile because of the happy outcome. Because he is captain of a team of France champion of the world.
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