2023-06-12 18:15:37
He would have started one of the two games, or even the entire program of the Blues in June. Adrien Rabiot’s package for Gibraltar – France and France Greece, June 16 in Faro (Portugal) and June 19 in Saint-Denis, reshuffles the cards of the two meetings counting for the qualifications of Euro 2024. The Turinese had to leave the rally due to a calf injury and was replaced by Boubacar Kamara (Aston Villa, 3 caps).
Camavinga, the natural replacement. With two close matches, at a time of the season when historically the Blues leave feathers, the temptation to rotate exists in the mind of Didier Deschamps. The coach also knows that with Gibraltar and Greece, the menu offered to his Blues seems unbalanced. Risk-taking against Gibraltar, penultimate in the FIFA rankings ahead of Somalia and the Bahamas, does not seem appropriate. All the members of the list retained by the boss of the A’s apply even if the idea is elsewhere: find a team, maintain a dynamic after two inaugural successes (Netherlands and Ireland), maintain a balance.
If in front, the trio Kylian Mbappé – Ousmane Dembélé – Randal Kolo Muani stands out, it is in the midfield that the main questions now reside. Aurélien Tchouaméni and Antoine Griezmann should provide benchmarks for the vice-world champions. It remains to find the third man. Adrien Rabiot, performing for several months in the selection, had his place in the warm. Eduardo Camavinga stands out as the natural solution. He finds himself in balance with Youssouf Fofana, the Monegasque, associated with Aurélien Tchouaméni, his ex-partner from the ASM, in all the oppositions put in place since the start of the rally in Clairefontaine.
Fofana or Camavinga therefore. Gibraltar’s weakness could lead Didier Deschamps to change the system, going back to 4-4-2, which would not change anything for the heart of the game where the Monegasque and the Madrid player would remain in competition to accompany Tchouaméni.
Koundé and Pavard again in competition. The excellent performance of Benjamin Pavard in Dublin on March 27, author of the only goal of the game, redraws competition for the position of right back. While Deschamps could recompose his central defense, once again under adversity this Friday in Faro, with why not Axel Disasi in the axis, Jules Koundé sees the Munich player again in his field. He had doubled it during the World Cup in Qatar.
Everyone could have “his” match this time. Who to start with remains to be seen. Because he remains on a successful performance and because he has not played a single minute of competition since May 27, Pavard could start against Gibraltar before giving up his place to Barcelona against Greece three days later at the Stade de France against a much tougher opposition. In the past of the Blues, the last match of June always remains the most complicated.
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