In a packed and largely hostile stadium, France aims against Hungary an early qualification for the knockout stages of the Euro, Saturday at 3 p.m., under the overwhelming heat of Budapest, even before challenging Portugal on Wednesday.
A victory against Petit Poucet of Pool F and Didier Deschamps' team will have easily survived the so-called "group of death": even before challenging Cristiano Ronaldo and his defending armada, four days later, the champions of world will have their ticket in their pocket for the final round.
In the meantime, the Blues will discover the Puskas Arena and its 68,000 seats (including 61,000 in the Euro configuration) with the confidence of those who tamed Germany (1-0) at the start of the tournament on Tuesday in Munich.
The successful entry into the running is enough to reassure Paul Pogba's partners.
They found the intensity of the 2018 World Cup quite naturally and seemed little disturbed by one of their first away matches with the public, after a long year of almost systematic closed doors.
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For this second outing, the cursors are reversed: if the adversity on the lawn is supposed to drop a notch against the 37th world nation, the decibels risk soaring, in the only enclosure of the Euro filled to 100%, and in temperatures around 30 degrees.
Follow the press conference of Didier Deschamps and Hugo Lloris live before their final training session scheduled for 3 p.m.
