Dimitri Payet has hailed France's tactics at Euro 2016, stressing the importance of the whole team defending from the front. The hosts finished top of Group A after beating Albania and Romania and drawing with Switzerland, conceding only once in the process.
All four of their goals have come late in games, with two needed in stoppage-time to defeat Albania, but West Ham star Payet, who has scored twice himself, says he would rather play this way than be more open.
He said “We've got a good defence and it's not just
the back four. We've reached a new level in defence. These defensive efforts
weigh on our freshness, but I'd rather not concede a goal and score one in the
90th minute than concede two or three and have to go and score three or four. Because
there is not a big gap between the teams, it's hard to score three or more
goals.”
France will face the third-placed team from either Group C, D or E in Lyon on June 26, and Payet says he is looking forward to playing a better surface than the Stade de France, Marseille's Stade Velodrome and Lille's Pierre Mauroy.
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