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MUNICH (AP) — A boring France team? Coach Didier Deschamps doesn’t care. Tuesday’s European Championship semifinal between Spain and France is a matchup of very different styles. One team is playing some of the most exciting soccer at Euro 2024, and the other is playing arguably the dullest.

A team that has won all five of its matches, against a team that has won just two (excluding Friday’s penalty shootout victory over Portugal ). A team that has scored a tournament high 11 goals, against a team whose players have yet to score from open play — having notched two own goals and a penalty. “If we’re boring you, you can watch something else, it doesn’t matter,” Deschamps said on Monday when asked about criticism of his team’s form.



“It’s a very particular European Championship, with less goals than normal. We have the chance to make France happy, in a delicate situation for the country. If (others) are bored, I don’t really care.

” France has underwhelmed and captain Kylian Mbappé is frustrated as he tries to adapt to wearing a vision-limiting face mask after breaking his nose in the opening match. Also being called out for France’s lack of a cutting edge in attack is Antoine Griezmann, who has played in two positions — central midfield and on the right wing — and was even dropped for the group closer against Poland . “We have 100% blind faith in (Mbappé and Griezmann) we know they are players that can change a match in an instant,” midf.

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