“They all shot in the opposite direction”… Lloris talks about the fatal shooting session against Switzerland

After Deschamps, it is the turn of the captain of the France team Hugo Lloris to break the silence after the failure of the Blues this summer at the Euro. And like the coach, the Tottenham goalkeeper chose L’Equipe to take stock of this adventure that ended before it even really started. After recalling that he still had not digested this round of 16 against Switzerland in Bucharest, Lloris immediately wanted to switch to the next upcoming deadlines for the Blues, with the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup which will begin with three matches in September (against Bosnia on the 1st, in Ukraine on the 4th and against Finland on the 7th).

“What matters now is the next World Cup and that everyone do a little more for the team and adapt to the needs of the team, even if this means that some sacrifice a little more than others. “, He declared, discreetly sending a little message to his teammates after a Euro which will have highlighted some tensions in the France group.

“I had taken out the one I needed but …”

Criticized on the evening of the elimination on penalties against the Nati (we have heard here and there that Lloris haphazardly plunged luck during the penos), the goalkeeper with 129 selections made a point of clarifying things. “The morning of the match, just before the meeting, I asked for penalties from the Swiss shooters, and I looked at the trend, their habits. In the evening, they all shot in the opposite direction. So, afterwards, you ask yourself the question, during the session, to know if you continue to base yourself on the stats or on the feeling ”, he confided before making a kind of personal assessment of competence in this genre. exercise.

“Penalties are not an element in which I am successful, throughout my career, but I have stopped, some very important. I had some successful moments, in 2019, but last season, with Tottenham, I took ten without stopping a single one, sometimes touching them. It’s a shame for me that the Euro ended up like this. I was attacked on penalties before the game, I pulled out the right one and we were leading 3-1. With a little luck, we would not have spoken to me about it ”, he blurted out with a (yellow) smile.