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Former France defender, Frank Lebouef, has criticized Paraguay for their show during the 1-0 nonaccomplishment to Les Bleus successful the Round of 16 of the 2026 tourney connected Saturday successful Philadelphia.
Didier Deschamps’ squad controlled the crippled with 76% possession and registered 10 times much shots than La Albiroja, with 5 shots connected people compared to conscionable 1 from the South American side.
Despite this, La Albiroja managed to frustrate the two-time champions for important periods until a foul connected substitute Desire Doue resulted successful Kylian Mbappe converting a punishment to people the lone extremity of the lucifer successful the 70th minute.
Leboef, who was portion of Didier Deschamps’ 1998 World Cup-winning squad, expressed his discontent regarding Paraguay’s tactics:
“It’s intolerable to play against a squad similar that. They refused to play. … I’m fed up with that football. That squad was everything I hatred astir football, and that’s unfair to World Cup. That’s unfair to their fans.
“They didn’t connection anything. They conscionable defend, support the shot high. … We knew that arsenic soon arsenic France scored, it was implicit due to the fact that determination was thing to beryllium offered by the Paraguay team.”
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