Special envoy to Budapest
Under a blazing sun, the world champions proceeded to their training of the day this Thursday in Budapest. With nearly 35 degrees on the clock and a session scheduled at 3 p.m., same time as the second match, Saturday against Hungary, the Blues repeated their range on the lawn of the Nándor Hidegkuti Stadium, home of MTK Budapest FC. The information of the day lies in the absence of Kingsley Coman, who left the rally to travel to Sweden to attend the birth of his child. The Blues winger will be back and operational for Saturday's meeting, while respecting the health protocol. In any case, this is what those around the selection advance.
For the rest, Karim Benzema, Adrien Rabiot, Raphaël Varane and Presnel Kimpembe only ran around the field, while their partners performed a light session including a toro of several minutes in a good-natured atmosphere. Two days before the Hungarian meeting, which could validate the qualification of the France team in the round of 16, no risk was taken by the staff, wishing above all to get the bodies used to this schedule and to the high heat. At the end of the session, Antoine Griezmann, Kylian Mbappé and Paul Pogba, but also Thomas Lemar carried out punching exercises against Steve Mandanda. No tactical implementation has been carried out and there remains the session on Friday, the day before the match, for Didier Deschamps to perfect the ultimate automatisms. Unless - and thatis the big trend - let nothing change in the victorious French eleven of the Germans on Tuesday night at the Allianz Arena.
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