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Hit in the ankle, the man with 127 caps will miss a Blues match for the first time since 2017, a period from which there are almost no survivors in the current France team.
After playing 84 matches in a row with the Blues, Antoine Griezmann will not be able to play the next two friendly matches against Germany and Chile. The last time the Atlético player missed a match with France, the team was much different than it is now.
The last time that the native of Mâcon did not take to the pitch with the Blues, Didier Deschamps still fielded a very good team. It was against England (3-2), during a friendly match on June 13, 2017. It was almost 7 years since Grizou came into play before establishing this record of 84 consecutive appearances. Up front, the coach was already relying on the indestructible Olivier Giroud but at his side, a young prodigy was only honoring his second selection with the first team: Kylian Mbappé. In a 4-2-2-2 tactical pattern, Ousmane Dembélé occupied one of the sides. Here are the only three players still called up to EDF.
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Behind, no one is still there
On the other side, we found Thomas Lemar, no longer called up for selection since September 2021. Behind, all the players present on the match sheet are no longer in DD’s plans from now on. In the midfield, we found the pair N’golo Kanté-Paul Pogba. One gave in to the sirens of Saudi Arabia after losing his indisputable starting place while the other is suspended for 4 years for doping.
The central hinge was made up of Raphaël Varane and Samuel Umtiti, who put his career in jeopardy to win the 2018 World Cup. On the wings, we found Benjamin Mendy, now at Lorient, as well as Djibril Sidibé in front of former captain Hugo Lloris in the cages. Even if most of these players no longer wear the Blues jersey, the French will remember that they gave everything to win a second star in Russia in 2018.