El azulgrana marcó con suerte de chilena ante Bulgaria poco después de que el madridista se retirara con un golpe en el muslo
El tridente de lujo de los ‘bleus’ conectó y tuvo ocasiones, pero Mbappé no marcó y Giroud, relevo de Benzema, lo hizo dos veces
Francia se impuso por 3-0 a Bulgaria con gol de Antoine Griezmann y doblete de Olivier Giroud en su último amistoso preparatorio pero se llevó un buen susto ante los 5.000 espectadores que volvieron por fin a las gradas del Stade de France de Saint-Denis.
A una semana de su debut en la Eurocopa (el 15 de junio ante Alemania en Múnich), Karim Benzema se retiró antes del descanso tras sufrir un golpe en el muslo derecho, justo encima de la rodilla, justo cuando remataba un balón de cabeza y las alarmas se encendieron en la selección ‘bleu’, aunque Didier Deschamps tranquilizó al asegurar que el delantero del Real Madrid fue sustituido por precaución y no sufre ninguna lesión.
Solo un cambio en el once de Deschamps
Deschamps alineó el mismo once del pasado miércoles ante Gales con el único cambio de N’Golo Kanté, que entró en lugar de Adrien Rabiot. Como entonces, la gran atracción fue ver en acción a Benzema en su segundo partido tras cinco años y medio de ausencia en la selección francesa, junto a Griezmann y Kylian Mbappé.
Y el tridente de oro tampoco defraudó esta vez. Desde el primer momento los tres se movieron con fluidez y conectaron una y otra vez generando continuas ocasiones. Benzema tuvo la primera tras recibir de Mbappé pero su disparo cruzado se le fue ligeramente fuera (11’).
El tridente, muy activo y con ocasiones
Un minuto después Griezmann se asoció con Mbappé, cuyo intento desde el centro del área lo desvió a córner Daniel Naumov. Griezmann inició otra acción de los tres mosqueteros y Mbappé, tras pared con Benzema, volvió a estrellarse en el meta búlgaro (27’).
Y poco después llegó el 1-0 en la jugada más confusa de todas, ya que el baló entró tras dos rebotes. Primero el disparo de Mbappé fue desviado por Ivan Turitsov, el balón llegó a Griezmann, que marcó tras una espectacular chilena... que desvió involuntariamente Ivailo Chochev a la red. Es su 37º tanto como internacional e iguala su mejor serie de tres partidos consecutivos marcando con los ‘bleus’.
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