After two first training sessions, Monday and Tuesday, focused on recovery, serious things started on Wednesday three days from France - Kazakhstan at the Parc des Princes, decisive for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. At the national technical center in Clairefontaine, the players had the right to a closed session with first technical and tactical exercises then an opposition. Twenty-two of the twenty-three selected for this gathering were present at the Pierre-Pibarot stadium. Absent from training during the first two days, Karim Benzema, the Real Madrid striker, was at rest due to muscle fatigue in full agreement between the Blues and his club. But, the contender for the Ballon d'Or must find his way back to training this Thursday and be the holder on Saturday.
We are moving towards a tactical pattern in 3-4-3 as in the last meetings.
In all likelihood, Munich's Dayot Upamecano holds the rope to start on Saturday instead of Kurt Zouma as an axial in this 3-man defense with Jules Koundé and Lucas Hernandez.
In the right piston, Benjamin Pavard played a first half with the holders before leaving his place to Kingsley Coman in the second period.
The coach could favor a more offensive solution with the ex-player of PSG and Juventus in order to bring more dangers to put in difficulty the probable very low block of Kazakhstan.
Possible team: Lloris - Koundé, Upamecano, L Hernandez - Coman or Pavard, Kanté, Rabiot, T Hernandez - Benzema, Griezmann, Mbappé.
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