Find here all of our live #MONDIAL2022
23h46 : “The concern is the midfielder. It’s the question mark, it will be the gauge of this World Cup.”
Bixente Lizarazu, football consultant for franceinfo, commented on the list announced by Didier Deschamps for the World Cup in Qatar. If he welcomed the return of Olivier Giroud who deserves it, “because he did everything for it and he is excellent with AC Milan and the French team”he did not hide his concern about the midfielder he considers “inexperienced”.
23h43 : Didier Deschamps chose to take no less than nine defenders (Varane, Upamecano, Kimpembe, Konaté, Saliba, Koundé, Pavard, L. Hernandez and T. Hernandez) to Qatar. The coach justified his choice by saying that he was leaning towards a system with four defenders. “In a big competition, you have to be solid defensively. It’s better, it’s more suitable”he assured.
23h32 : Who is the most used player? Who is the Blues top scorer? Who is the oldest player called up by Didier Deschamps? The youngest ? Franceinfo sport analyzed, in figures, the choices made by the French coach.
23h28 : In the 25 players summoned for the World Cup, the coach of the France team has decided to call several players whose form is still unknown. All special cases are different, but from the moment I made the decision to put the players on the list, they were supposed to be fit for the first game.”assured the coach.
22h11 : Journalists from France 2 were able to enter a huge cement factory, Beton Qatar, to discover the living conditions of the workers. One of them claims to earn around 1000 euros per month for 70 hours of work per week, seven days a week, without a single day off. On its website, the company presents the projects in which it has participated and its customers in Qatar. Among them, two French groups: Bouygues but also subsidiaries of the Vinci group (VCGP and QDVC). Were the French groups aware of the living and working conditions of their supplier’s workers, whom we met in the cement plant? The eye of 20 hours tries to provide answers.
22h00 : Didier Deschamps’ press conference has just ended. The Blues have an appointment at Clairefontaine on Monday, before flying to Qatar two days later. Normally, they will be entitled to training on the problems caused by the holding of the World Cup in Qatar in this short period of time in Clairefontaine.
9:47 p.m : Didier Deschamps returned to the supposed weakness of the Blues midfielder, at least from the point of view of experience. “It’s the reality. (…) Fortunately, these players have had playing time during the last rallies. It’s still that. I have confidence in them.”
9:44 p.m : Imagine that as for Euro 2021, the coach has the right to bring up to 26 players for the competition, and that the 14 non-established players will appear on the match sheet and on the bench. While at Euro 2021, Didier Deschamps was forced to send three to the stands.
9:44 p.m : How does the 25 players work? Didier Deschamps will have to eliminate 2 of them to obtain 23 players or did I not understand?
21h36 : Didier Deschamps confirms that the transition to a four-element defense explains the non-selection of Jonathan Clauss, the former Lensois and current Marseillais. “Jonathan Clauss, I am well aware of his immense disappointment, says coach. It’s a sporting choice. As far as Jonathan is concerned, the system is the main reason.”
21h28 : This list of the Blues is nice, isn’t it? ????????
21h28 : Does the France team seem weak to you in midfield? You are not alone.
21h28 : “If I make this choice, it’s because I trust Olivier [Giroud] and because the situation today is not the same as in the summer of 2021.”
9:24 p.m : If you are wondering how Olivier Giroud managed to come back in blue when the coach no longer wanted him to live with Karim Benzema, go read the article by franceinfo sport comrade Vincent Daheron.
/2022/11/08/636a9b9a988bc_000-32k73qx.jpg)
(FRANCK FIFE / AFP)
21h23 : 2 – Lucas and Théo Hernandez are the second siblings to participate in a World Cup for the Blues, 92 years after Jean and Lucien Laurent. Family. 
21h22 : Congratulations to the Hernandez family, who achieved a rare performance in the blue jersey.
21h22 : Didier Deschamps announces a tactical change caused by the strong overrepresentation of central defenders (eight training, against a single side). “We were very often out of balance [à cinq derrière], and I know very well that in a big competition, it’s not going to make us win. You have to defend well. I am convinced that it is better, more suitable.”
9:15 p.m. : Difficult to understand the non-selection of Lafont who aligns the good matches with Nantes and who represents the future. Areola never plays with his club!
9:14 p.m : “Taking 25 players gives us enough security to participate in this competition. If I thought 24 would have been enough, or 26…justifies the coach. The players I put in the list are supposed to be fit for the first match.”
21h13 : Didier Deschamps will speak at a press conference to explain his choices. It is to follow in our direct.
21h08 : World cup. ????????
21h08 : A dream come true @equipedefrance ????????❤️
21h08 : Always a dream to play the biggest competition with my country. ???????????? @equipedefrance 
21h08 : Several players called up by Didier Deschamps share their joy of going to Qatar on social networks.
21h03 : Well, let’s talk little, let’s talk well: on paper, wouldn’t this be the weakest midfielder in the history of the French team in the World Cup?
21h11 : The fears of observers are concentrated in midfield, where it is true that this is the line where the French team appears weakest.
21h00 : 25 players, only 2 with OL. (Only 1 trained at the club) The last left 12 years ago. Sacred downgrading.
21h11 : In the series “it was better before”, the supporters of Lyon are gray tonight.
20h57 : It’s an indisputable sign of the impoverishment of the L1, but in the France team, it’s a problem that is around thirty years old. In 1995, Aimé Jacquet put down on paper an eleven composed solely of players belonging to French clubs, against Norway. Five years later, Roger Lemerre composed a team playing 100% abroad for a 4-0 demonstration in Turkey. Since the turn of the 21st century, foreign clubs have been the biggest suppliers of players to the Blues, because French clubs can no longer retain them.
9:12 p.m : Note that only six selected players play in Ligue 1! Is this a sign of weakness in Ligue 1 or of the very good level of French players who are exporting well?
20h55 : OK, I just looked at the selected players. Am I the only one to have a big (but then really big) apprehension for the midfielders? I think the absence of N’Golo Kanté will be felt…
20h53 : I always had the impression that Karim Benzema was better when there was a credible substitute on the bench, and in this perspective the selection of Olivier Giroud is undoubtedly a very good thing, in addition to giving a joker in case of injury or folded match. On the other hand I do not understand why not to have pushed the cursor to 26 players…
20h52 : Do not hesitate, as @Fan de footto give us your feelings on this list (in reinforced concrete) of Didier Deschamps.
20h51 : @Foufoot We will talk about it again when we have Adrien Rabiot who will help out at left-back, as has already happened to him. Do you know what Eduardo Camavinga is worth at right back? We only have one full-back in this list.
20h49 : Santa Claus stuck in the chimney, it’s not the end of the world huh!
20h46 : Despite all my love for Jonathan Clauss, I think that going back to 4 behind in a more cautious system will make it possible to secure a French team which was very fragile with two pistons. It can also help to secure a fairly light midfield (we’re going to Rabiot-Tchouaméni, it’s not all-risk insurance). It is only in attack or in goal that we start with established certainties. In these conditions, we risk going on the Blues with a cautious approach who will not be there to send the game.
20h47 : What do you think of the Pierre list? I think it’s a pretty good list.
20h44 : Why don’t you take 26 players, there you deprive yourself like a big one of a side. And given what happened at the Euro where you found yourself with Rabiot left back, it’s a good bullshit.
21h13 : Among the notable absentees, therefore, in addition to Jonathan Clauss, to whom we will come back, note also the Monegasque Wissam Ben Yedder, the Nantes or ex-Nantes Alban Lafont and Randal Kolo Muani, as well as the Madrilenian Ferland Mendy.
Internet users are surprised that Didier Deschamps has deprived himself of one more player to open up options, since he was entitled to 26 names on his list.
20h38 : But how Veretout was able to pass in front of Guendouzi (essential in club for a year and a half and regularly called in EDF) and Camavinga (generational crack who digests his transfer to Real)? By what intellectual process? Really there is not a scenario where I understand.
20h38 : Veretout present to ensure the quota of OM world champion players with 5 minutes of cumulative playing time in the competition ????
20h38 : One of the big surprises on the list is the presence of Jordan Veretout, OM’s defensive midfielder who hadn’t really sparked since the start of the season.
20h35 : As a reminder, with our friend Raphaël Godet, we investigated the actions, which we will qualify as timid and belated, of the FFF vis-à-vis the problems posed by France’s participation in this competition.
/2022/10/13/phptVC2yy.jpg)
(JEREMIE LUCIANI / FRANCEINFO)
20h51 : Didier Deschamps is asked about the fact that the World Cup is being held in Qatar, and the controversies surrounding it. The coach remains on the cautious line set by the FFF:
“As a coach, I am a participant, just like the sports delegation. Participating does not mean endorsing. This decision was not taken weeks or months ago, more than ten years ago. The federation has taken the necessary steps. At our level, we will continue to be attentive to what is happening. (…) We must not give athletes powers that they do not have. I will not forbid no player to express themselves. Everyone is free. But they are actors.”
20h49 : Didier Deschamps does not comment on the expected objective for this World Cup, while the president of the FFF, Noël Le Graët, has fixed a place in the last four. “I can’t say that we are comfortable”recognizes the coach, who will only have his players ten days before the start of the competition.
20h30 : Sorry Pierre for not selecting Jonathan Clauss, we heard you cry out your sadness in the cottages of Bourbonnais!
20h49 : Good bah missed for Clauss, who had gone there precisely to play this World Cup, I imagine the disappointment!
20h30 : “Olivier Giroud knows his status. I have a position in relation to him, he knows it. Through the discussions we have had, the situation has evolved, that’s why I consider it better. for the France team that he is with us.”
Didier Deschamps notes the transition to double Olivier Giroud, with whom there was frying on the line during the last Euro.
20h28 : The main absentee from the list is therefore Jonathan Clauss. The absence of the right piston probably means the return to a four-man defense, the five-man system having not brought the expected stability.
20h28 : Didier Deschamps announces a list of 25 players, including Steve Mandanda, Raphaël Varane, Olivier Giroud and the surprise Jordan Veretout, but without Mike Maignan and Jonathan Clauss.