Didier Deschamps was the captain of a France side that accomplished that feat in 1998 and 2000.
Under him, France have reached the World Cup quarterfinals in 2014, the Euro final as hosts in 2016, and then won the Jules Rimet trophy in 2018.
Unfortunately, Deschamps lost his way and lost the way of his team.
His decision to start Monday’s match with a back three was one of the worst ideas of his managerial career.
Clement Lenglet, who had never played a single minute in the two pre-Euro friendly matches nor in the group stage matches, was all of the sudden thrown in with the normally reliable defensive duo of Raphael Varane and Presnel Kimpembe.
And it also was a terrible idea to have Benjamin Pavard, a centre-back turned right-back, and Adrien Rabiot, a natural No.
It was only when France moved into a more traditional 4-4-2 with the entrance of Coman for Lenglet that France finally played and came back in the game.
But why take off Griezmann, who was the hardest worker of the front three? Why not bring on Corentin Tolisso in midfield to help Pogba and N’Golo Kante in the midfield and take out either Mbappe or Benzema? More mistakes made by Deschamps.
There was no direction, no ideas and even less any patterns of play, moves or collective strength.
You need to have a plan that works or at least find it early, like Deschamps and France did in 2018.