5464Reshuffles only leave Les Bleus bewildered

posted by on June 18th, 2008

There will be much soul-searching over this early exit but France can have no complaints. They were deservedly beaten, the strain of three successive matches showing on Claude Makelele and Jérémy Toulalan, and they had an alarming deficiency at centre-half where Eric Abidal, William Gallas and Jean-Alain Boumsong were unable to cope with Luca Toni. The Italian would be the leading goalscorer at this tournament by a country mile if he had converted only a fraction of his chances
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