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As World Cup Champions, France is a heavy favourite to win this year. The squad: Keepers: Hugo Lloris (Tottenham) Steve Mandanda (Marseille) Mike Maignan (Lille) No surprises here - Lloris is the captain and Mandanda's been his #2 for pretty much every tournament for the last ten years except for World Cup 2014, when he was forced out by injury. Mike Maignan was the #1 for Ligue 1's surprise champions this season, Lille, and is on his way to replace Donnarumma at AC Milan. Hopefully he at least gets a start, he's very good and likely to be France's next #1 in a few years when Lloris and Mandanda are too old. Defenders: Benjamin Pavard (Bayern) Presnel Kimpembe (PSG) Raphael Varane (Real Madrid) Clement Lenglet (Barcelona) Kurt Zouma (Chelsea) Lucas Digne (Everton) Lucas Hernandez (Bayern) The main story for France's defenders was probably Aymeric Laporte going to the Spanish team, which seemed to be a surprise. They probably could have called up Bayern's third French defender, Dayot Upamecano, in addition to who's here. The big chance from 2018 is that they have called up Barcelona's other French centre-back, Clement Lenglet, instead of Samuel Umtiti who seems to have sold out the future of his career to be able to be World Cup champion. Hernandez and Pavard are back, presumably to resume their full-back roles from 2018. Midfielders: Paul Pogba (Manchester United) Thomas Lemar (Atletico Madrid) Corentin Tolisso (Bayern Munich) N'Golo Kante (Chelsea) Adrien Rabiot (Juventus) Moussa Sissoko (Tottenham) Kingsley Coman (Bayern Munich) I think Bayern has more French starters than Paris Saint-Germain. This midfield is very similar to the one in 2018 - no Matuidi this year, and Rabiot (or his mom) appears to be satisfied his talent will be properly used, as he's been called up which is a bit of a surprise. The biggest surprise, however, is... Forwards: Antoine Griezmann (Barcelona) Olivier Giroud (Chelsea) Kylian Mbappe (PSG) Ousmane Dembele (Barcelona) Karim Benzema (Real Madrid) Wissam Ben Yedder (Monaco) Marcus Thuram (Gladbach) Karim Benzema is back. After five years in exile following some kind of sextape blackmail stunt with Mathieu Valbuena, Deschamps has called back Benzema after he's been having some very good seasons for Madrid without Ronaldo. Giroud has returned because despite not playing a whole lot at Chelsea, he always performs for Les Bleus, Wissam Ben Yedder has been scoring a lot of goals for Monaco, tying with Mbappe fairly recently, and Marcus Thuram so far is mostly known for his name as his dad is France's all-time caps leader, Lilian Thuram. It's unclear what kind of formation the French team will use; in 2018 they used some kind of lopsided 4-4-2 which won't make sense without Matuidi, and in the friendlies leading up to the tournament they experimented with a 4-4-2 diamond, which could work and is an interesting throwback to the 1984 Euro team. One thing's for sure: when France is a heavy favourite, the most likely outcome seems to be that they'll lose all their group stage games, which is what I expect here, especially since there's already trouble brewing with Giroud and Mbappe.
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Do they literally only have two fullbacks and no backups?
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# ? Jun 12, 2021 02:33 |
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Lucas Digne also plays as full-back, and some of the other centre-backs can fill in as required I think but I can't think off the top of my head who else would do it. I think Kurt Zouma can play as right back sometimes, but Hernandez/Pavard are likely expected to start. France has ridiculous depth at every position except full-back, basically. Tokyo Sexwale fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Jun 12, 2021 |
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lol every single tournament https://twitter.com/GFFN/status/1404078184463835140?s=20
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# ? Jun 13, 2021 18:34 |
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drat I had Netherlands down as my favourites to have a massive internal bust up
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# ? Jun 13, 2021 19:40 |
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the sex ghost posted:drat I had Netherlands down as my favourites to have a massive internal bust up Tournaments barely begun op. Plenty of time.
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the sex ghost posted:drat I had Netherlands down as my favourites to have a massive internal bust up They can both be OP
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# ? Jun 15, 2021 00:35 |
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I was shocked and unnerved to hear that Barcelona's famous iron man, Ousmane Dembele, picked up an injury and will be out for 3 weeks and therefore for the rest of the tournament. It seemed so far-fetched to consider that Dembele might get hurt.
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Tokyo Sexwale posted:I was shocked and unnerved to hear that Barcelona's famous iron man, Ousmane Dembele, picked up an injury and will be out for 3 weeks and therefore for the rest of the tournament. It seemed so far-fetched to consider that Dembele might get hurt. I think you'll find he's actually out for three months.
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Shrapnig posted:I think you'll find he's actually out for three months. now there's the Dembele we all remember. At least he'll get plenty of FIFA time.
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mcrappe
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vyelkin posted:mcrappe
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He's the new Carl Leaburn
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vyelkin posted:mcrappe
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vyelkin posted:mcrappe
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vyelkin posted:mcrappe
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vyelkin posted:mcrappe
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vyelkin posted:mcrappe
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 00:25 |
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https://twitter.com/nocontextfooty/status/1409629643330756615?s=21
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 06:33 |
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Things that age well
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vyelkin posted:mcrappe
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Alctel posted:Things that age well Cursed image
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lilljonas posted:Cursed club
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 09:31 |
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Alctel posted:Things that age well
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# ? Jun 29, 2021 16:36 |
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Lmao https://twitter.com/GFFN/status/1409960171527446529?s=19 Great meltdowns all round https://twitter.com/GFFN/status/1410003266394595334?s=19 Jose fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Jun 30, 2021 |
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https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2021/kingsley-coman-played-with-an-injury-to-try-to-change-his-public-image-of-always-being-injured/ "L’Équipe report that Bayern Munich winger Kingsley Coman refused to be substituted despite suffering a knock in the 1st half of extra time vs Switzerland, despite being injured, because he wanted to reverse the image that the French public have of him as being a player who frequently suffers from fitness issues. Marcus Thuram eventually replaced the Bayern man in the 2nd half, after Didier Deschamps had a major talk with Coman, saying: “But you are not going to be playing Kingsley…” This attitude underscores a larger frustration on the part of Coman, who did a very quick back and forth between Sweden and Budapest on the 17th and 18th June to see his baby girl who had just been born, because he felt like he was in strong form and ready to start vs Portugal. The French staff agreed based on his performances – in the end, Deschamps put Tolisso on the right-wing, with Deschamps explaining to Coman that his reasoning behind this was that the ex-Lyon man was simply a better defensive option."
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 07:24 |
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Lol at dads and mams fighting on the sideline like it's an under 12s game at the park
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 08:41 |
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French now much better than the Dutch at tournament meltdowns
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McFlurry Fan #1 posted:French now much better than the Dutch at tournament meltdowns At least the French have won something
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Catching up on podcasts this morning, first in the queue is Auclair on FW
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 09:50 |
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McFlurry Fan #1 posted:French now much better than the Dutch at tournament meltdowns my friend can I interest you in World Cup 2002 and 2010? The French have always had top-notch tournament meltdowns
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 14:59 |
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Can someone explain why Lenglet started/starts over Zouma?
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 15:27 |
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the French can always calm themselves down by the knowledge that they are not managed by Raymond Domenech
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# ? Jun 30, 2021 15:57 |
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Wengy posted:Can someone explain why Lenglet started/starts over Zouma? Deschamps is the man with the plan
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gently caress france. All my homies hate france
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