France-Maroc : la réaction de Didier Deschamps à la mi-temps

L’équipe de France fait match nul 0-0 à la pause contre le Maroc en quarts de finale de Coupe du monde.

Avant la reprise, le sélectionneur tricolore a réagi au micro du diffuseur. « Avec une équipe qui défend bien bas, qui essaye de nous aspirer pour trouver la profondeur. On a eu des occasions il faut trouver l’efficacité maintenant. », a insisté Deschamps à M6. goldparty.lat

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Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova will put their friendship on hold when they fight for the Wimbledon title on Saturday after the Czech pair took contrasting paths to their first All England Club final.

Muchova saved a match point in a pulsating 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (12/10) semi-final win against two-time Grand Slam champion Coco Gauff that lasted over two hours in sweltering 33C heat on Thursday.

Just hours later, Noskova followed Muchova onto Centre Court to dispatch Ukrainian 12th seed Marta Kostyuk with a dominant 6-4, 6-4 victory that took just 79 minutes.

It was a remarkable day for two players who have grown close despite being at far different stages of their careers.

Muchova and Noskova have been friends for several years, bonding off the court and playing doubles together at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

“Karolina is such a great fighter, such an incredible player, but mainly she is such a great person. I’m glad I can play my first final against her,” Noskova said.

Muchova targets breakthrough victory

Muchova made her WTA main draw debut nine years ago and has been on the cusp of making her breakthrough at the Grand Slams several times.

The 29-year-old was beaten in three sets by Iga Swiatek in her only previous major final at the 2023 French Open.

She also lost in the Australian Open semi-finals in 2021 and the last four at the US Open in 2023 and 2024.

Muchova, who had lost in the first round on her previous four appearances at Wimbledon, is at last unimpeded after suffering a multitude of injuries in recent years.

In 2022, doctors told Muchova that it would be a good idea for her to quit tennis altogether, while in 2023 and 2024 right wrist surgery sidelined her for 10 months.

Muchova takes “pills, sprays, eyedrops” to manage a grass allergy, but she is no longer adverse to playing on the lawns of the All England Club.

“It’s a very special moment. It’s a great achievement,” Muchova said.

“This is one of the biggest tournaments that we have with all the history, so many legends were playing here, as well to just get to play on the Centre Court, it was so nice.”

Noskova on the rise

In contrast to Muchova’s litany of near-misses, Noskova is enjoying a meteoric rise.

The 21-year-old only made her Wimbledon debut in 2022 and now she is on the brink of a maiden Grand Slam title.

The youngest Wimbledon semi-finalist since Jelena Ostapenko in 2018, Noskova may not be a star just yet, but she has won more matches on grass than any other player on the WTA Tour in the past two years.

In the lead up to Wimbledon, she won the Berlin Open for her first grass-court title.

“When I play my best I know I can play with the best players in the world and a have a great result, which is a final in a Grand Slam I guess!” she said.

Czech dominance

The Czech duo’s run to the final has extended their country’s rich history at Wimbledon despite a population of just 11 million.

For the third time in the last four years, a Czech woman will hold aloft the Venus Rosewater Dish awarded to the Wimbledon winner after Barbora Krejcikova in 2024 and Marketa Vondrousova in 2023.

Noskova was inspired by the success of her childhood idol Petra Kvitova, who triumphed at the All England Club in 2011 and 2014.

Jana Novotna memorably won Wimbledon in 1998 after losing two previous finals. while Karolina Pliskova reached the 2021 final and Hana Mandlikova twice finished as runner-up in the 1980s.

“We have great history of Czech tennis. Definitely the fact that there is so many of us,” Muchova said.

“Myself, when I was younger, looking up to the girls who were like maybe five years older than I was, you can just see them doing so well. So it gave me the belief that I can as well do it.”

L’équipe de France continue d’impressionner dans cette Coupe du monde 2026. Qualifiés pour les demi-finales après leur victoire face au Maroc (2-0), les Bleus poursuivent une série exceptionnelle dans la compétition. Depuis plusieurs années, aucune sélection n’a réussi à les faire tomber sur la scène mondiale.

La dernière équipe à avoir battu la France en Coupe du monde reste la Tunisie. Le 30 novembre 2022, lors de la phase de groupes du Mondial au Qatar, les Aigles de Carthage avaient créé la surprise en s’imposant 1-0 face aux champions du monde en titre.

Dans une rencontre sans véritable enjeu pour les Bleus, déjà qualifiés pour les huitièmes de finale, Didier Deschamps avait largement remanié son onze de départ. Les Tunisiens avaient profité de cette occasion pour décrocher un succès historique grâce à un but de Wahbi Khazri.

Depuis cette défaite, la France n’a plus perdu un match de Coupe du monde. Après ce revers face à la Tunisie, les Bleus avaient poursuivi leur parcours au Qatar jusqu’en finale, avec des victoires contre la Pologne (3-1), l’Angleterre (2-1) et le Maroc (2-0), avant de faire match nul face à l’Argentine (3-3 après prolongation) et de s’incliner lors de la séance des tirs au but.

En 2026, les hommes de Didier Deschamps ont poursuivi cette dynamique. La France a réalisé une phase de groupes parfaite avec des succès contre le Sénégal (3-1), l’Irak (3-0) et la Norvège (4-1). En phase à élimination directe, les Bleus ont ensuite éliminé la Suède (3-0), le Paraguay (1-0) et le Maroc (2-0), validant ainsi leur billet pour les demi-finales.

Avec cette nouvelle présence dans le dernier carré, la France confirme une régularité exceptionnelle dans l’histoire du Mondial. La Tunisie reste donc la dernière sélection à avoir réussi à battre les Bleus en Coupe du monde.

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BOSTON, USA, Jul 10 – Morocco became the last African team to exit the 2026 FIFA World Cup after a 2-0 defeat to France in the quarter final match played last night in Boston.

After a goalless first half that saw French skipper Kylian Mbappe miss a penalty, they came strong in the second half with Mbappe scoring in the 60th minute before Ousmane Dembele sealed the win six minutes later.

France will now play the winner between Spain and Belgium in the semifinal on Tuesday.