Didier Deschamps plans to line up Olivier Giroud from the start this Tuesday in a friendly against Scotland. A choice that is not necessarily understood by everyone.
Four days after the French team validated its qualification for Euro 2024 by winning against the Netherlands (1-2), this time it is time for a friendly match scheduled for Tuesday evening against Lille. , against Scotland (9 p.m.). A meeting which will allow Didier Deschamps to partially rotate his squad. One of the uncertainties regarding the team composition revolved around the French attack. Randal Kolo Muani once again disappointed last Friday, it was Olivier Giroud or Marcus Thuram who this time seemed to be struggling to start in the middle. And it is ultimately the AC Milan player who should have this honor. Not to everyone’s taste.
Or at least, some believe that the opportunity was good for Didier Deschamps to test Marcus Thuram, the Inter Milan striker necessarily embodying the future of the Blues more than his illustrious teammate. On the set of the channel The Team, Régis Testelin thus estimated that it would have been more judicious to give Lilian Thuram’s son a chance and start him against the Scots. “ I regret because Marcus Thuram has not started in the France team for three years, since November 2020, at a time when he played on the left. Since then he has come a long way, he has become a starter at Inter Milan, he is fixed at the center forward position. Kolo Muani had his chance many times and he failed to take it.“
“We have nothing to expect from Olivier Giroud”
As for choosing between Thuram and Giroud, the journalist therefore decided: “ Giroud, I’m sorry but we know it by heart, we have nothing to expect from Olivier Giroud. He is very good, I do not deny it, well done Giroud. But here, we are in a friendly match, the only interest of this match is to try Thuram to try to see, behind Giroud, which of Kolo Muani or Thuram (can win). » While waiting to see how the two players, who should have playing time against Scotland, will behave, the attack site remains more open than ever to surround Kylian Mbappé.
