France played Switzerland

The furious game of France against Switzerland and the final 5:2 warned the world that the "tricolor" must also be paid attention to when talking about (potential) favorites at the World Cup, and at the same time probably marked the end of Otmar Hitzfeld on the bench of the national team from the country of cheese. watches and chocolates.

As it was known earlier, Hitzfeld will be replaced on the bench by Vladimir Petković after the World Cup, but this is not about the Swiss, nor did they ask themselves much (more precisely, they did almost nothing) last night in Salvador.

But it is time to write about France, the team to which everyone attributed the victory against Honduras (3:0) at the start as something that had to happen considering the modest quality of the opponents.

How much Didier Deschamps' team can really do was seen in the second round against a team that is anything but modest, but which this time could not "get together with the ball"... First Olivier Giroud in the 17th minute, then Blaise Matuidi just the Swiss started from the center, directed the match in the way that suits France, and then the breaking began. "Tricolori" even had a penalty right after that, but Karim Benzema didn't use it. Diego Benalho saved, and then Joan Kabay missed the impossible (he hit the crossbar from five meters).

However, the third goal was seen by halftime - Rafael Varane opened the counterattack, Giroud ran it perfectly and assisted Mathieu Valbuena at the second post.

Nothing changed in the second part of the game either, one team was playing and the other was playing football, so that allowed him to score another goal. Benzema made it 4:0 with his third goal at the World Cup, Moussa Sissoko rounded off the firecracker, before Blerim Dzemaili and Granit Xhaka scored two goals and somewhat mitigated the disaster of their national team.

There is something in that "Fonte Nova" stadium in Salvador, where no less than 17 goals have been scored in three World Cup matches so far. The firecracker of France "exploded" after the Netherlands swept Spain (5:1), and Germany defeated the Portuguese with 4:0...

With this victory, the French also fulfilled their goal, which is to reach the first place and thus avoid Argentina in the round of XNUMX, which is believed to win the first position in group F.

"We were the right team from start to finish, and we deserved this triumph and a place in the round of XNUMX. We scored five goals, I think we could have had a few more, but our concentration only faltered in the finish, when we conceded two goals." said Deschamps.

Hitzfeld was not satisfied.

"We made too many mistakes. We gifted the opponent the second goal and then killed ourselves. We didn't act as a team, our opponent did. That's the difference," Hitzfeld pointed out.