Without captain and without vice-captain. Not sure that Didier Deschamps, who likes to control everything, had anticipated such a scenario for the matches against Israel and Belgium. Antoine Griezmann, recently retired from the selection, and Kylian Mbappé, in the recovery phase, are therefore absent and this list looks like a small revolution, especially since N’Golo Kanté is also missing due to injury.
Christopher Nkunku takes the opportunity to make his return to an offensive sector that will necessarily have to be rethought. Michael Olise, already there in September, is also expected to gain ground especially since he is destroying everything at Bayern Munich. Bradley Barcola, Ousmane Dembélé and Randal Kolo Muani and Marcus Thuram all have a chance to take in the absence of the attack bosses.
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Deschamps preferred to put Mbappé, hit in the thigh 10 days ago, in the fridge so as not to “not take any risks“. The logic is the same for the new midfielder of OM, Adrien Rabiot, who only has a few minutes of play in his legs this season. The question of leadership will inevitably arise in a group which frankly lacks experience and no longer has any world champion apart from Ousmane Dembélé and Alphonse Areola who had not played a single minute in Russia.
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Areola was preferred to Lucas Chevalier, who sparkled in the Champions League on Wednesday with Lille against Real Madrid. Despite the desire toreoxygenate the group” and the many absent, no new name appears in the group, priority has been given to men who already know the group. Maghnès Akliouche, too, will have to wait some more.
Manu Koné and Michael Olise took advantage of their convincing first of September to settle into the 23 while Lucas Digne was preferred to Ferland Mendy whom he had already replaced due to injury last month. Eduardo Camavinga, also back from injury, is back as is his teammate in Madrid, Aurélien Tchouaméni who could well take over in this decidedly strange month of October for the France team.
The list of 23 Blues
Guardians : Alphonse Areola, Mike Maignan, Brice Samba
Defenders : Jonathan Clauss, Lucas Digne, Wesley Fofana, Theo Hernandez, Ibrahima Konaté, Jules Koundé, William Saliba, Dayot Upamecano
Backgrounds : Eduardo Camavinga, Youssouf Fofana, Matteo Guendouzi, Manu Koné, Aurélien Tchouaméni, Warren Zaïre-Emery
Attackers : Bradley Barcola, Ousmane Dembele, Randal Colombia, Christopher Nkunku, Michael Olise, Marcus Thuram
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