With in particular the good performance of Aurélien Tchouaméni against Ireland, the future is getting darker for N’Golo Kanté and Paul Pogba in the France team.
Such is the life of the French team. Even if Didier Deschamps is not a fan of turning everything upside down, it is normal for the hierarchy to evolve in a selection over the seasons. And everything can change, since in each match, each rally, some players score points and others not.
Thursday evening, the victory against Ireland (2-0) showed that Lucas Hernandez could be a solution in the center in a system with four defenders, and that Marcos Thuram was a credible competitor for Olivier Giroud and Randal Kolo Muani for the role of center forward. In midfield, Aurélien Tchouaméni, scorer, is settling more and more into the midfield of the Blues.
Since Euro 2016 and especially the 2018 World Cup, this sector has been the property of N’Golo Kanté and Paul Pogba. Each time they were holders, France did not allow it. But injuries kept them away from the Blues, and the Tchouaméni-Rabiot-Griezmann trio took power during the 2022 World Cup. He was still lined up Thursday evening against Ireland.
While Tchouaméni finds color at Real Madrid after a difficult second part of the season, and if we add the emergence of a player like Eduardo Camavinga, this leads us to wonder about the possibility of a return to the team from France of Kanté and Pogba. The first left for Saudi Arabia, where the level of play raises questions despite the arrival of a host of stars, while the second has hardly played for more than a year due to injuries. There is more and more life without them among the Blues, which was not won a few months ago.
