More than a month after defeating Ireland, the French team is preparing to make its return to the forefront. As part of the qualifiers for Euro 2024, Didier Deschamps’s gang will travel to the Netherlands on October 13 before hosting Scotland, surprising leader of Pool A ahead of Spain (one game in hand), at Pierre-Mauroy stadium in Lille during a friendly match. Thus, the Blues coach must unveil the list of 23 players who will make up his group this Thursday, October 5 at 2:00 p.m.
As such, the Basque should recall Ibrahima Konaté, absent during the last rally and still performing well with Liverpool. Moreover, The Parisian informs that the French technician would consider the return of Jonathan Clauss. Indeed, Didier Deschamps did not seem satisfied with the competition for the right-back position following the defeat against Germany and as a result, he had not ruled out the possibility of counting on his services. Despite the poor sporting results of Olympique de Marseille for several weeks, the Phocéen is one of the rare players to stand out from the crowd and his versatility, to the extent that he is capable of playing both as a full-back and as a piston to bring the surplus in the offensive phase, could work in his favor. Less than a year after his non-call for the 2022 World Cup which seriously affected him, the former Lensois could therefore wear the tricolor tunic again. But the coach’s voices remain impenetrable…
