Top seed in the recent Euro 2024 draw, the France team will have to beat the Netherlands to finish at the top of its group. A second place would also offer the Blues a possible very affordable round of 16…
This is what is to be remembered from the draw for Euro 2024 in Germany which placed the French team in group D: by finishing both first and second, the Blues will face a group runner-up in the round of 16 of the competition next year (if they finish among the four best thirds, they will come across a group winner). Didier Deschamps and his players will try to dominate Austria, the Netherlands then the winner of the A play-off (Poland-Estonia against Wales-Finland).
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By finishing in second place in their group, the 2022 world vice-champions will then challenge a team from group E, that of Belgium, which also includes Romania (which was hat 2 during the draw), Slovakia and the winner of dam B (the winner of Bosnia-Ukraine will receive the winner of Israel-Iceland). This group seems very weak and the Red Devils, overpowering in the qualifiers, must finish on top. Ukraine, if it qualifies for the Euro, could largely do better than the other two teams.
In any case, France would then face an opponent within its reach. The EDF of “DD” has never lost against these nations: it remains with a victory in extremis against the Romanians at the opening of Euro 2016 (the famous goal by Dimitri Payet) and has never challenged Slovakia . Concerning Ukraine, we obviously find the founding act of the Deschamps era, namely the 2014 World Cup play-off won in Saint-Denis. The 2018 world champions also inflicted a scathing 7-1 on the Ukrainians in October 2020.
