Germany-France: At the end of a rollercoaster season, the Blues console themselves by winning the Nations League third-place play-off

With the match against Germany barely over on Sunday, June 8, Didier Deschamps turned his attention to what's next, and for the French men's football coach, this will involve taking a vacation. Unlike a large number of his players, who are still involved in the new Club World Cup in the United States (June 14-July 13), the boss of Les Bleus will now be able to take stock of a 2024-2025 season unlike any other in his tenure – which began in 2012 – and which has seen his team face all the vicissitudes that football has to offer.

The last of these was this victory against Germany (0-2), thanks to goals from Kylian Mbappé (45th) and Michael Olise (84th), during the match for 3rd place in the Nations League. A match of "relative interest" , confessed the coach on Saturday, which was not going to change the face of the French world and which a good number of players would certainly have been happy to do without. But this success is good to take and allows the Blues to end the season on a positive note, three days after their defeat against Spain (4-5).

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