Bucharest: French coach Didier Deschamps said his team had shown weakness after world champion wasted the superiority of two goals and removed from the Euro 2021 after losing a penalty from Switzerland at the last 16 on Monday.
After being left behind 1-0 at rest, France received a suspension of punishment when Swiss missed the side of the penalty and Deschamps then roared to the lead 3-1 with two goals from Karim Benzema and a remarkable strike from Paul Pogba.
But two late goals from Switzerland took the game into extra time and then the punishment ended with defeat after Kylian Mbappe failed with a final kick.
“We did what we needed to go 3-1 and then we showed weaknesses, something unusual for us.
Losing punishment is always cruel for the team,” Deschamps told TF1.
“Kylian Mbappe is very sad, like all players, but not Someone can be annoyed with him when he takes responsibility for taking the fifth penalty, “he added.
, Captain and goalkeeper Hugo Lloris said the team did not have the cruel advantage they showed in the past.
“We are not looking for reasons.
Regret, if we can have it, is that we lead 3-1.
In the past few years we have known how to close the store,” he said.
“We pass every possible and honest emotion of football like What we like.
Two goals that we expect in the last quarter of an hour really hurt us.
“France Defender Raphael Varane recognized a bad game spell in the game.” Very disappointing.
We really messed up our first round.
We react at Both half but then left them room and they returned, “he said.
“Punishment is a lottery.
We can score goals in extra time because we have the opportunity to do that.”