The French football team finished its first half of 2025 on a rather positive note. If she failed to reach the League of Nations final, she still finished third thanks to a final success on Germany in the small final (0-2). Injured, Ousmane Dembélé was not there and Didier Deschamps did not have to think about the place he could give him. But with a Kylian Mbappé already positioned in the axis, it will be necessary to make choices in the future.
Choices of “rich” for the coach of the Blues who has at his disposal a plethoric number of offensive talents. Repositioned in the axis at Paris Saint-Germain during the season, Ousmane Dembélé literally exploded and shown that he could be an outstanding scorer. But among the Blues, there is Kylian Mbappé and as Didier Deschamps repeated him repeatedly, he considers his captain as an axial striker. What to push Dembélé on the side?
For Bixente Lizarazu, he goes anyway that Didier Deschamps slices. The former coach teammate delivered his analysis this Sunday in “Telefoot”. “In attack, we have dream equipment but Didier Deschamps will have to be a conductor. And conductor, it is having to have all her musicians play well at the same time. And already we will have to settle the subject Mbappé with Dembélé because Dembélé has taken a certain dimension. »»
Dembélé under the Mbappé nod?
Not so simple for the tricolor tactician? Bixente Lizarazu continued: “Each player must be perfectly well. I want to see the Dembélé du Paris Saint-Germain but I am not sure that we will see it with the French team. It is true that Kylian Mbappé takes a lot, a lot of light, it is he who attracts the balloons, but the others must express themselves. »»
A priori not enough to create tensions in the group, especially since Ooumane Dembélé and Kylian Mbappé get along wonderfully outside the field. But the equation is laid in Didier Deschamps who has a few summer months to think about it before finding his players next September (the 5th, against Ukraine) for the start of the 2026 World Cup qualifications.
