{"id":692745,"date":"2026-07-15T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692745\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T09:50:09","slug":"fabian-ruiz-rodri-had-plenty-of-time-kylian-mbappe-publicly-criticises-didier-deschamps-tactics-after-spain-beat-sloppy-france-to-reach-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692745\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fabian Ruiz &#038; Rodri had plenty of time!&#8217; &#8211; Kylian Mbappe publicly criticises Didier Deschamps&#8217; tactics after Spain beat &#8216;sloppy&#8217; France to reach World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:start\">Mbappe wasn&#8217;t the only member of the squad to express bewilderment at the performance. Rayan Cherki, who was introduced as a second-half substitute in an attempt to spark a comeback, echoed his captain&#8217;s sentiments regarding France&#8217;s lack of hunger on the big stage. The Manchester City playmaker felt that despite the talent available to Deschamps, the team simply failed to show up in any meaningful way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what to say. They were better than us in every part of the game, and they were hungrier than us I think,&#8221; Cherki said. &#8220;It is sad because I still believe that we are a better team than them, but this afternoon Spain has been better than us. Even in an off day, we have to be a bit better technically, tactically, in the desire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">&#8220;In so many ways, France was missing everything today. Truly, everything was missing today. We&#8217;ll be back in four years, and we won&#8217;t make the same mistakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mbappe wasn&#8217;t the only member of the squad to express bewilderment at the performance. Rayan Cherki, who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[230576,819,230577,59,56761,640,101,56,54,55,6526],"class_list":["post-692745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-d-deschamps","tag-france","tag-france-vs-spain","tag-gb","tag-k-mbappe","tag-spain","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}