Team France continues preparations for the World Cup, which in the summer of 2018 will take Russia.
Team Didier Deschamps did not experience any problems in a friendly match with Italy. "Le Ble" came forward already in the 8th minute of the opposition - Samuel Umtiti shot the goalkeeper "Squadry Azzurra" and thus opened an account in this game.
At the 29th minute the French team doubled their advantage - Antoine Grismann successfully implemented a penalty.
After seven minutes, the Italians reduced the gap to a minimum - Leonardo Bonucci, taking advantage of a mistake by the goalkeeper of the French national team, from a few meters ferried the ball exactly to the destination.
Already in the second half, France consolidated its advantage and set the final score - a splendid blow was successful midfielder Usman Dembele, who at 63 minute from the penalty sent the game to the upper corner.
After the match, two mentors shared their thoughts from confrontation.
"In the second half, Italy had a lot of scoring chances. We are able to quickly counterattack and create moments, but we need to become more rational in order to score more goals. The team was perfectly tuned to this fight, as well as in the previous meeting with the national team of Ireland. We are entering the final stage of preparation for the World Cup ", - quotes the words of the head coach of the French national team Didier Deschamps Football Italia.
"We will draw conclusions from this defeat. We could even score, we had moments. Now there is a difference between us and the French team. This game was completely different from the match with Saudi Arabia, the players played well. I will note that the newcomers of the national team showed themselves well.
If we continue in the same spirit, then in a year we will reach the level of the team of Deschamps. France is still superior to us, but we must work and study in order to get closer to their level, "said coach of the" Azzurri Squadre "Roberto Mancini.
Recall that Italy failed to break into the world championship. As for France, their rivals on Mundial will be Australia, Peru and Denmark.
France and Italy will hold their next friendly matches with the USA and the Netherlands respectively.