If the meeting between Danish and Tunisians resulted in a draw (0-0), the next two opponents of the Blues promise to be serious competitors for qualification for the knockout stages.
by Clément Martel (Doha, Qatar, Special Envoy)
There are good results, frankly bad, and those who do not really satisfy anyone. The meeting between Tunisia and Denmark, Tuesday, November 22, is entering this gray area. However, Stade Education City, in the suburbs of Doha, held rather from the red tide. Opponents of the French team in group D of the 2022 World Cup, Danish and Tunisians have not been able to decide (0-0) for their entry in the running in Qatar. At the end of this physical and committed match, the coach of the Blues, Didier Deschamps, and his troops are warned: their next two oppositions will not be a pleasure.
“We knew it would be difficult against Denmark, but we had not come here to draw,” breathes the Tunisian midfielder Aïssa Laïdouni. “For us, this match is a lost opportunity to pocket three points,” opposes Rasmus Nissen Kristensen, Danish Dynamite player. In a boosted atmosphere – one of the first in the competition -, evoking more the suburbs of Tunis than those of the Qatari capital, fans of the Carthage Eagles, with a large community in Qatar, took possession of the premises. And uninhibited their national selection.
worn by an overflowing desire, throwing themselves on all the balloons – sometimes with several – and now constant pressure on the semi -finalists of the last euro, the Tunisians started the match better than the Danes borrowed, despite an obvious desire to play. “We tried to print our identity in this match, explains the Tunisian coach Jalel Kadri, satisfied with the work of his flock. At the technical level, the players showed that they were in good shape and, physically, that ‘They have enormous qualities. “
Opposed to Australia in the next match before completing their group phase by a highly anticipated duel against France, the Tunisians do not hide their ambitions. “We are not a surprise. Why should we be a surprise?” Said Aïssa Laïdouni. For the midfielder of Ferencvaros (Hungary), who, from the outset, has set the tone in the game, multiplying decisive interventions and harangues to the public, the first world world in the Arab world is “the perfect opportunity for the teams African and Arab to show that they are large teams, with quality “. If they have kept their inviolated cups in the World Cup for the first time since 1978, he just missed the Eagles to make their opportunities concretize; just like their opponents of the day.
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