L'Equipe delighted with the gesture in Poljud: 'A symbol of the war to defend the homeland that is not his …'
Croatia has played one of the best games in Dalic's Era on Poljud against France. « Tricolori » fell with 2-0 goals Budimir and Perisicand the foreign media sharply criticized the performance of the Deschamps team that did not even look like Vice champion of the world. However, with criticism of French players, L'Equipe referred to a special article on the move of Croatian fans and Omaz Jean Michel Nicolier who was killed in the defense of Vukovar in 1991.
The first match of the UEFA League quarterfinals between Croatia and France |
« Croatian fans pay tribute to the French soldier during the Croatia-French match. French soldier Jean-Michel Nicolier was beaten to death and then shot on November 20, 1991. During the Massacre in Vukovar when he was 25 years old. He was posthumously distinguished in 2011 by President Ivo Josipovic. He is a symbol of the Homeland War. The fans at the beginning of the League of Nations against France. 'Vukovar is my choice, in good and evil', according to a large banner with a Frenchman's portrait from Vesoul, which was called a bridge in Vukovar, ”the article said in the article L'Equipea.
As for the French game, L'Equipe writes that the team « faces the wall » and emphasize the « shipwreck » of a stopper couple William Saliba – Ibrahim Konate. Another French portal, Le Parisien, referred to the defeat by the title « Failed Blue Return to Homeland. »
The Spanish Marca wrote that « Modric Croatia has France on rope » and called the French game catastrophic, and they also looked at the quarrel of our captain and Kyliana Mbappé around a penalty he wanted to extort a young Frenchman, but who ended up with a smile at the end:
« They gently welcomed the captain's shot before the initial shot, but when the ball began to roll, it was a friendship left aside, demonstrated by a smaller Modric complaint in Mbappé in the last section of the match. Croatia angrily approached the French and fiercely reprimanded him, which was completely surprised by Mbappé, but later Modric the judge approached to prevent the situation from escalating the situation, « Marca wrote.
Spanish Diario AS is even more critical of the French and pointed out that this is the new shameful performance of the Deschamps team and that it is a constant in the last five years, while the Italian Gazzetta Dello Sport wrote that Croatia « declared France ».
