'Annihilated' – how the French papers reacted to their Euro 2020 exit

[ASFN Admin]

French dreams of winning a Euro 2020 and World Cup double were shown the sortie on Monday night after Les Bleus were beaten on penalties by Switzerland in the round of 16. The French newspapers responded to the shock defeat with fury, aimed in particular at the tinkering of Didier Deschamps, the world champions' coach, who was attacked for switching to an untested back three in what one of the papers called “one of the biggest fiascos in the history of team selection”. The frontpage of L'Equipe,

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