Didier Deschamps created the surprise on Thursday, at the time of the announcement of the 23 players selected for the two matches of the French team against Ukraine and Iceland on behalf of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. While Hugo Etikité was expected, the tricolor coach held Maghnes Akliouche.
In the midfield, if he did not hesitate to summon Adrien Rabiot despite his situation at Olympique de Marseille, he did not benefit from the absence of Eduardo Camavonga and the non-selection of N'Golo Kanté to recall Corentin Tolisso, preferring Kephren Thuram to him.
“” Corentin Tolisso has had a good season, he is free from his physical troubles. It is followed even if it has a higher position in club, where it is efficient. We are attentive. He has an experience, an experience and I am already happy to see him efficient. For the rest, we will see, but there are also a lot of people, including a return player (Paul Pogba) who has not yet taken up ”,
He explained in response to a question from Giovanni Castaldi.
Giovanni Castaldi taken up from Vole by Corentin Tolisso
The journalist of Ligue1+also saw the tricolor coach throw a spade in his preamble to his response. “Apparently, you were not nice to him. We remember it huh! We sometimes forget what we said a year or two years ago ”, he launched.
Saturday, after the beautiful victory of Olympique Lyonnais against Metz, Corentin Tolisso had himself mentioned the subject when he was questioned by Giovanni Castaldi. “I wanted to tell you something. Two years ago, when you worked on another channel, I could see what you said about me after a match against Monaco. It had touched me a little and above all, it had motivated me a lot, so I want to say thank you ”,
He had quipped at the Ligue1+microphone.
