Holders together on Thursday evening, in the semi-finals of the League of Nations, it was only the fifth time since 1904 that two brothers are aligned in the field in France team.
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This move, Lucas Hernandez did not come to the rescue. It had only a few seconds to the defender of Bayern Munich to show the fangs, ready to fight with Castagne – Timothy of his first name – guilty of a fault at the beginning of the game on Theo Hernandez. If he had raised his cadet of fifteen months, Lucas remained calm when, at the e minute, an avalanche of body in white has buried the pallot of his little brother, author of a Cannon of the left foot came crucifier, Thursday, October 7 (3-2) in the semi-finals of the League of Nations.
If the cadet of the family Hernandez has entered a curious inverted decal of the goal of Benjamin Pavard in the eighths of the World Cup 2018 (on a service of … Lucas Hernandez), the two brothers marked the team of France from the kick off of the game. Before them, in the history of the Blues, only four fratrics played a game together – the last dating back to 1974, with Patrick and Hervé Revelli.
Born in Marseille – their father, Jean-François, played for the OM -, Lucas and Theo Hernandez had promised to dispute together a meeting in pros under the jersey of the Atlético de Madrid, where they worked their panties. The beginning of their professional career, having decided otherwise – Lucas now evolves in Munich and his brother at Milan AC -, the two brothers waited the international level to stride the same lawn again.
“Exceptional moment. “
“It’s not the first time in history, but it’s an exceptional moment,” said Lucas, Tuesday, in a press conference. Barely the known list, the elder hastened to call his cadet to forbid him to hurt himself at the weekend preceding the International Truce. To prevent the September scenario, where Theo has hugged its blue stripes in the absence of his wounded brother, reproduces.
Both capable of evolving on the left flank of the Defense, the brothers expected to be in competition. “We are brothers but, on the ground, we are partners, insisted the elder. We do not know who will start, but we will be welded, we will give advice.” Finally tenured side by side in the new Didier Deschamps System Faced with Belgium, the frangines did not succeed, and sometimes even drawn to stem the incisive attacks of red devils. But, in the image of their team, both raised his head after a first period at the torment.
In questioned Tuesday on the rage to overcome his big brother, Theo Hernandez had liked to doubt to be cut in the same wood. “I do not like to lose, like Lucas, when I lose, I’m not good. But he is too much, I think.” His long sprint end of the meeting to be at the beginning of the center of Benjamin Pavard and the purpose that followed the contradiction. He either does not give up anything. Sunday, facing Spain, where the two brothers grew up, this desire will probably be increased.