Didier Deschamps hinted that William Saliba 's inexperience led to him being substituted at half-time during France 's shock 2-0 defeat to Denmark.
The in-form Arsenal defender was hauled off at the break after goals from Kasper Dolberg and Andreas Skov Olsen gave the hosts a comfortable lead over the young French side. Deschamps made the decision to hand Saliba and a number of his fellow international fledglings a start in Copenhagen for their sixth and final Nations League group match, as Les Blues already couldn't qualify for the latter stages having won just one game ahead of a pulsating night of finales in the competition on Sunday.
Following a dire first-half performance from the reigning world champions, Saliba and Real Madrid midfielder Eduardo Camavinga made way to signal how concerned Deschamps was with their individual displays. "I don't think it's a shipwreck, we also had a lot of chances but we were ineffective, we made some errors when playing out from the back," the France boss told TF1 post-match.
