A first tile during this gathering? This Monday at the end of the afternoon, during the first very light training of the Blues, Paul Pogba left the field limping after a strike on goal. The Manchester United midfielder felt pain in the right adductor. He immediately left the lawn in the company of the doctor of the France team, Franck Le Gall. The Blues trained at the Pierre-Pibarot stadium for 17 minutes. A very light training focused on recovery. Thirteen players accompanied by Cyril Moine, the physical trainer, lined up the laps before doing some stretching. Areola, Pogba and Pavard put on their crampons by doing several exercises with the ball and then strikes for a good half an hour before the exit of the Mancunien. Finally, Griezmann, Mbappé, Griezmann, Zouma,Digne and the Hernandez brothers were exempted from training.
The 23 players of the France team selected for this gathering arrived on Monday at 4 p.m. at the national technical center in Clairefontaine. An hour and a half earlier, coach Didier Deschamps had set the tone during the press conference. “We had 3 goals this year. We missed the 1st (elimination in the round of 16 of the Euro against Switzerland), we managed the 2nd by winning the League of Nations and we have the 3rd to go for the qualification for the World Cup in Qatar . We must not think that we are already qualified because we are facing Kazakhstan. It will take determination and all our strength on Saturday to win this match. "
The France team will qualify this Saturday for Qatar if they win against the Kazakhs at the Parc des Princes on the penultimate day of the qualifiers.
A draw combined with another next Tuesday in Finland may also be enough to win the 2022 World Cup. For these two meetings, the coach is deprived of his vice-captain Raphaël Varane as well as Presnel Kimpembe, both with hamstring injuries.
Didier Deschamps should normally repeat the same tactical scheme used in the last matches and in particular in the semi-final (3-2 against Belgium) and the final (2-1 against Spain) in the League of Nations.