Winner of Croatia in the quarterfinals of the League of Nations, after a sacred evening in Saint-Denis last Sunday with a happy goal shootout (2-0, 5-4 TAB), the French team now knows the continuation of its 2025 program. The Blues of Didier Deschamps will not only play the Final Four of the League of Nations with a semi-final against Spain, June 5 Stuttgart, with a final or a small final to play four days later (the other semi-final opposes Germany to Portugal). They were also installed in a group of four of the World Cup qualifiers in the Europe zone to start next September.
Kylian Mbappé and his teammates have all the cards in hand to easily qualify for FIFA World Cup 26 organized in Canada, the United States and Mexico (but fully played in the US from the quarterfinals). Mike Maignan, Ibrahima Konaté, William Saliba, Jules Koundé, Aurélien Tchouames are among the best in their respective posts and, in the offensive sector, Ousmane Dembélé has a phenomenal season with PSG while waiting to find his good role in selection under the orders of a much less progressive technician.
The French team will have to impose its law, as a finalist in Qatar in 2022 and world number 2 in the FIFA ranking (behind Argentina). And this, from its first qualifying match at the World Cup against Ukraine on September 5. The Ukrainian Federation recently chose Murcie (Spain) to welcome Belgium but previously played in Germany since the start of the war waged by Russia. The Blues must have less harm against Iceland and Azerbaijan, the other two opponents of group D.
Blues in danger against Ukraine
Statistically, however, France is only in a slight favorable ballot in its group of qualifiers. Depending on the calculations of We Global Footballthe Blues have 60% to finish at the top of their pool in order to qualify directly for the next World Cup (the 12 seconds will play dams in the form of the Final Four). 60% is much less than Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany which, in their respective groups, have 90% to finish first.
It must be said that Ukrainians have largely the means to thwart the tricolor ambitions. The training led by former striker Serhiy Rebrov is counting on a “golden generation”, with the guards Andriy Lunin and Anatoliy Trubin, the defensive rock Illya Zabarnyi, the leftrs Vitaliy Mykolenko and Oleksandr Zinchenko, the nugget of Girona Viktor Tsyhankov and the scorer Artem Dovbyk. However, they failed to pass the first round of the euro last summer. We Global Football
However, gives them 39% of chance of finishing first. Hence 60% of France.
If England and Spain must also compose with major opponents (Albania and Serbia for Three Lions, Turkey for Roja), for chances of direct qualification at 70%, Italy is the most in danger in danger. After two missed World Cups, Gianluigi Donnarumma and his teammates find themselves this time in the Norway group. It's simple, We Global Football estimates the chances of first place in Azzurri at 44% and those of Erling Haaland and Co at 65%!
