That’s easy to say with hindsight. He played a blinder for RM. So deserved his place.
Yep, but his decision making has been poor throughout this tournament, he has been too selfish and not picked up on runs by other players, Zableta has been picked out a couple of times tonight already and made dangerous runs and put decent crosses in, Di Maria completely ignored him in the previous games.
It is one of those hard decisions where a coach has too choose between a top player and the team. As the French coach did with Nasri, and appears to have got it right.