Qatar 2022 World Final: the fury of Giroud, historic scorer of France, for the substitution of Deschamps in the 40th minute

The clock struck 41 minutes and the score was 2-0 in favor of Argentina. Without a reaction from his players on the pitch, the French coach, Didier Deschampsmade a difficult decision: eliminated the historical top scorer of the selected team, Olivier GiroudAlready Ousmane Dembeledeleted by Nicholas Tagliaficoto keep only the French jewel in attack, kylian mbappe.

With four goals in this World Cup and 53 in his career with the blue shirt, surpassing the 51 that Thierry Henry scored in Qatar 2022, Giroud is the most dangerous offensive piece after Mbappé. But Deschamps had no problem pulling it off after 40 minutes in which 9 did not gravitate and barely had a header in the Dibu Martínez box in a game disallowed due to an offensive foul.

The striker obviously disliked not taking revenge on the pitch and when he came out, his anger at giving up his place in a world final so quickly showed it. He took off his shirt and waved it inside the substitutes’ bench.

The French coach is used to difficult or controversial decisions, such as not calling Karim Benzema up for Russia 2018 or not including him now in this final due to injury, just a few days before the start of the World Cup.

With these changes, Mbappé started playing as a centre-forward, as Marcus Thuram and Randal Kolo Muani came in to move to his sides. However, neither in the 4 minutes left on the scene nor in the seven added by the Polish referee Szymon Marciniak they managed to create dangers for the Argentine full-backs.