On the other hand, we cannot blame the Italo-German for surprising. By starting Openda, he opted for a new tactical plan that bored the French team. Not enough, however, to eliminate the finalist of the last World Cup from the tournament.
The decision to put the Leipzig striker straight into the starting eleven made Kevin De Bruyne back down. A decision that did not please Marc Degryse, analyst for Het Laatste Nieuws. “I have to repeat myself: a coach must put the players in the right place,” he begins. “Domenico Tedesco did not do that. I expected him to repeat the recipe that had made him successful in the qualifiers. Mangala and Onana as defensive midfielders, De Bruyne as 10, Lukebakio on the right and Doku on the left.”
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Paradoxically, fielding two strikers together did not make his team much more offensive. “Tedesco relegated De Bruyne to the background. He did not manage to dominate or take charge of the game. There was no offensive impulse.”
For the former international of the Devils, Tedesco wanted to innovate too much. “His choices were too exaggerated, he did not know how to remain simple.”
Philippe Albert echoed the same sentiment after the match. “We’re talking about a plan that we saw at the start of the match where Kevin De Bruyne played thirty metres from our goal when he was 100% of the time decisive on the other side of the pitch,” he told RTBF. “In the second half, Orel Mangala came back well, KDB finally played in his position and that’s when we had a Belgian team that was very present offensively. It’s good to want to innovate, the coach is young but it didn’t work. If he wanted to get into a match with Didier Deschamps, he lost it. I understand that it was France and that you have to respect your opponent, but to play so little football, and reluctantly because it wasn’t a role that suited KDB, he did it for the team. It’s doing without the qualities of our best players, I can’t accept that.”
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On Sporza, Peter Vandenbempt believes that Domenico Tedesco “has lost a lot of credit”. “Tedesco has not done a very good job in many respects. Does that mean the football association should exclude him? No. But a thorough assessment will have to be made by technical director Frank Vercauteren. A very strict assessment, as he did as assistant coach at Anderlecht.”
Jonathan Lange: “The choices were good”
We knew it on Monday, there were 11 million coaches in Belgium. But only one had the final decision. Domenico Tedesco made choices, and they weren’t bad, according to Jonathan Lange, Sports editor at DH. “Overall, what could he have done differently?” he asked on LN24 after the match. “His game plan bored France for a large part of the match. Indeed, he didn’t have much time to work on his new system. But remember that in 2018, Martinez had an inspiration against Brazil that paid off. For me, the choices were good. Hats off to Tedesco.” An opinion shared by Jonathan Legaer. “It wasn’t a great Belgium, but it was his best match.”
If the press and media in the country are therefore divided about the coach, wouldn’t the most important word be that of the players? According to Kevin De Bruyne, everyone is happy with Domenico Tedesco. “The coach is not a problem. I think the team is happy with the coach and the way we work. If the Federation wants to do something different, that’s their choice,” he said in the columns of the Nieuwsblad.
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In any case, the Belgian Union has no intention of parting ways with its coach. Before this meeting, Piet Vandendriessche, the CEO of the Belgian Union, confirmed the coach in his role. “We extended Mr. Tedesco’s contract because we trust him, because he has formed a coherent, rejuvenated team, with a state of mind that is better than ever, the people who were there before me tell me. As far as I’m concerned, Domenico Tedesco will still be there for 2026, because we have a long-term project with him, whatever the result on Monday,” he said in our columns. A statement that will not change anything in the debate. One thing is certain: Domenico Tedesco will have to have strong shoulders to revive this team.
2024-07-02 12:05:00
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