00:00Didier Deschamps says people who are bored with his France team's style of play can
00:03watch something else instead of Tuesday's Euro 2024 semi-final with Spain.
00:09Les Blues have been criticised by some for a lack of entertainment in their matches,
00:13with BBC pundit and former Premier League striker Chris Sutton last week saying he would
00:17close the curtains if they were playing in his back garden.
00:20It comes after France have reached the last four of the tournament in Germany with none
00:24of their players scoring a goal from open play.
00:27Their three goals at the Euros have been two own goals and a penalty scored by Kylian
00:31Mbappe in the one-to-one draw with Poland in the group stage.
00:35In Monday's pre-match news conference, Deschamps was asked about playing boring football by
00:39one journalist, to which he responded,
00:41If you are bored, watch another game, you don't have to watch us, it's fine.
00:46Maybe it's not the same as it was in the past, but we do have the capability to spark emotions
00:50and make lots of French men and women happy with our results, especially after a difficult
00:55period in our country.
00:57Spain boss Luis de la Fuente dismissed the suggestion that France are boring, saying
01:01at this stage it is all about the result.
01:04We all try to build a game plan that will help you win, he said.
01:08Spain are an eye-catching team, I won't deny that, it's our DNA, but in the end, here it's
01:13about winning.
01:15We want to play, but we want to be practical.
01:18Our way to get the result is to try to be eye-catching.
01:21But at this stage it's the result that counts because it is how your job will get judged
01:25and evaluated in the end.
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