Croatia puts an end to France’s hopes of reaching the Nations League semi-finals

Paris: the hopes of the champions in France’s charge of reaching the semifinals of the European Football Championship have run out after losing 1-0 in home against Croatia on Monday, not achieving any victory in the edition so far in course. The world champion, who has lost twice and drawn twice, is last of the first set with two points, five behind Croatia, who won thanks to an early penalty by Luka Modric. Denmark beat Austria 2-0 to go in advantage with nine points and France fails to achieve this balance, risking relegation to the second level. Austria is third with four points. France manager Didier Deschamps changed his squad again to rest the players at the end of the season and was not in able to field the best squad in all four matches that took place this month. France lacked creativity in the defeat to Denmark in addition to the draw with Croatia and Austria before losing on Monday to a team that defeated them four years ago in the World Cup final in Russia. Modric successfully executed a penalty kick in the fifth minute after Ibrahim Konate interfered with Ante Bodimir, bringing his score to 22 goals in 152 games with Croatia. Kylian Mbappe misses two chances for France, Josep Prikalo is close to consolidating the Croatian lead in the 17th minute. Deschamps makes two changes at the start of the second half, inserting Aurelian Chuamini and Benjamin Pavard in place of Abubakar Camara and Jules Conde. And Mbappe lost two chances again, as Ivica Ivocic easily saved his goal. Antoine Griezmann replaced Mathieu El Guendouzi, but unsuccessfully for France, who failed to score for the first time after 23 games. “It was a difficult month in terms of results, “Deschamps said. We didn’t have the energy and strength against teams that had more energy and energy.” We lost confidence in ourselves over time, but we have lost our vitality even more. It is very difficult to play this whole game. “(Reuters)

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