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Eden Hazard's team-mates struggled with the French team's qualification at their expense in the semifinals of the Russian World Cup, putting an end to their title dreams.
Le Monde
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By Clément Martel
"I prefer to lose with this Belgium than to win with this France. Although he was careful not to make these remarks to the microphones of the French-language media, Eden Hazard did not mince his words, Tuesday, July 10, after the defeat of his Red Devils in the semifinals of the Cup of the world 2018 against France. The Flemish daily Nieuwsblad reports the words of the Belgian captain, bitter. And like him, several of his teammates regretted "anti-football" proposed by the men of Didier Deschamps.
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"It's a pity for football that today Belgium did not win has assumed the goalkeeper of the flat country, Thibaut Courtois. France did not play. They defended at eleven to forty meters of their goals, and played the counter-attacks with Mbappé who goes very fast. It's their right, but the frustration is there because we lose against a team that is not better than us, and who does not play. Regretting the defensive system put in place by Deschamps and symbolized by the striker – dumb since the start of the World Cup – Olivier Giroud, regularly defending in the French camp, the goalkeeper estimated "never to have seen an attacker to play so far from the goal ".
If all recognize the perfect organization of France in defense, " a solid team defensively against which we did not create many opportunities " According to Eden Hazard, the Red Devils do not digest losing against this team. "It's unfortunate that we lose this way. We prefer to lose against a much stronger team " commented defender Jan Vertonghen. Offering a shimmering game and licked since the start of the World Cup, the Belgians and their "golden generation" have failed to reproduce their exploits of the previous match against Brazil (2-1 victory).
"The most beautiful team" of the tournament stops
A halt in the dreams of titles of the team that Hazard and Verthonghen consider as "perhaps the most beautiful team of the World Cup" . Confessing "a lot of frustration" after the match, teammates Thibaut Courtois regret not having been able to find the key to the closed scenario of the meeting. "But you have to respect the law of the victor. We can say that the team that will win the tournament will be no better than ours " abounded the mainstay of the defense Vincent Kompany.
Bitter losers, the men of Roberto Martinez deplored the wait-and-see attitude of the Blues, and their lack of play since the start of the World Cup. "We knew it was going to be played on details. A corner, a stopped phase or something else " admitted Kompany.
" Against Uruguay, they put one goal on free kick and another on an error of the goalkeeper added Courtois. Today, a corner. But it's football, everyone plays with his qualities. If no Belgian player shouts injustice, or questions the arbitration, the disappointment of the defeat in this "match of strongmen" according to Kompany, will have difficulty to pass
Remobilization needed
They will have to remobilize to try to win, Saturday, the third place in the World Cup, which would be the best result in the history of Belgian football (in 1986, the Red Devils had lost this small final against … France)
"We have a third place for which we must fight" recalled Kompany. It would finish on a positive note the beautiful tournament of the Belgians, who believe they can target the summits of world football in the coming years. "If such a chance does not happen with this generation, it will happen with the next generation, ," said Vertonghen. I really feel that this group can still give everything to the next two tournaments. "The future is Belgian" added his teammate Axel Witsel on Twitter.
We came far. We gave it our all.
The future is Belgian. ??A big thank you from heart, to our supporters in Russi … https://t.co/X7REzYAIDX
Hoping to find in this match against the loser of the Croatia-England match "the flaw, the little spark to score a goal" who missed Hazard and his teammates Tuesday against the Blues . At the microphone of the broadcaster – French – Belgian, the RTBF, the captain concluded, in spite of his sadness: "We came across tougher than us. »
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