Hugo Lloris has revealed the impact of French players’ fever on their performance in the 2022 World Cup final.
Raphael Varane, Dayo Upamecano, Adrien Rabiot and Ibrahima Konate were infected with the camel virus two days before the final and participated in the final match in addition to Kingsley Coman.
“We won’t hide behind excuses,” Lloris said in statements reported by “The Athletic”.
France played in the World Cup semi-finals against Morocco 24 hours after Argentina qualified at the expense of Croatia.
“The only regret we have is that we got everything wrong in the first half,” he added.
And he added: “We ate into every aspect of the game. Nevertheless, in the second half, we came back with different intentions.”
And he continued: “We felt we had room to come back. We did so also thanks to the talent of Kylian Mbappé, who was able to lead the team to an important moment.”
He continued: “Extra time was a bit crazy, I think about these two occasions when the score was 3-3 where we could score. It hurts.”
And he concluded: “But you have to give a lot of credit to the French team for everything that happened. We defended the 2018 world title.”
France lost the World Cup final to Argentina on penalties, 4-2, after the end of initial and extra time, resulting in a 3-3 draw.
