Didier Deschamps – CHRISTOPHE SAIDI / SIPA
After being hooked by Ukraine for its first game of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, the France team must get back to work on the (synthetic) lawn of Kazakhstan. Not an easy task because of external parameters such as the field, to which the players have to get used in 24 hours, as well as the long journey, concedes Didier Deschamps in a press conference the day before the match.
“Obviously, the night was more or less short to fall asleep. And there is a lawn where my players are less used to playing. It’s factual. Trap match, I don’t know, but there are additional difficulties compared to this type of match. “
Changes from Ukraine
The coach of the Blues has also planned to change some things in his starting XI compared to the meeting against Ukraine. “There will be a number, don’t ask me how many, because I won’t decide until tomorrow anyway. In any case, the 25 players participate in the match day before session. I have a choice, with a lot of top players able to play in different positions. It’s not all to put offensive players, you have to create shifts, there are different solutions and different systems too. A way of saying that he expects something other than what he saw of his men in the middle of the week at the Stade de France.