Although the French team lost the chance to keep the win in the Nations League, they managed to save a bit of their honor in the campaign after beating Austria 0:2, thus avoiding the danger of relegation to the second tier of the factory. Kylian Mbappe, who scored his 28th goal for the national team, thus entering the list of the top 10 scorers for the Blues.
The one who scored the goal for Mbappe is Olivier Giroud, who made history himself after scoring the second and becoming the oldest scorer in the history of the Zeretz team at the age of 35 and 357 days, or in other words, eight days before he will be 36 years old, thus breaking Rouge’s record The Marsh, who did it in December 1959, at the age of 35 years and 287 days.
In addition, the Milan striker has 49 caps for the national team, just two short of France’s all-time record holder Thierry Henry’s 51, but doubts have recently been raised in France about whether he will be part of Didier Deschamps’ World Cup squad. RMC commentator Daniel Riolo claimed: “There would be no sense in leaving Giroud at home, and it wouldn’t be right either. I can’t understand it. Benzema is not the type of player who decides who he plays with and who he doesn’t, he returned to the team after five years and he is happy to be there.”
But alongside the positive things about the French team, Deschamps has a few more reasons for concern. After arriving at the match window with a particularly lacking squad due to injuries, this time he also lost Jules Conde who was replaced in the 23rd minute after he sat down on the grass and could not continue. And if that’s not enough for Barcelona, Ousmane Dembele also left the game with pain.
Another injured is Mike Manian who was replaced at halftime after suffering a small calf pain. As you may remember, the Milan goalkeeper himself started between the posts following another injury, to captain Hugo Lloris, but was replaced by Alphonse Areola from West Ham.