The suspense did not exist but the Blues made the evening silky and perfect, with a qualification full of panache and illumination for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar (November 21 - December 18).
The affair did not drag on, in a Parc des Princes which paid a fine tribute, six years later, to the victims of the attacks of November 13, 2015. An early treble from Kylian Mbappé just after half an hour of the meeting, before Karim Benzema entered the dance in the second half to magnify the party.
This is how history will remember that they won their ticket "the Doha in the nose", if one dares to say.
They will see this first World Cup in the Persian Gulf because they have been good, punctual, efficient and they have respected the tradition since 1996: reaching each time the final phase of a Euro or a World Cup.
Italy, the last reigning European champion, knows that nothing is easy, she who had missed the Russian coronation of the Blues in Russia.
In their 3-4-1-2 customized by the presence and the outbursts of Kingsley Coman, Deschamps' men multiplied the brilliant streaks but it is the moment to also say that Kazakhstan was dizzying with nullity.
Finally emotions
With a goalkeeper with stuffy flair and a defense that no PH team would take as a model, the 125th in the FIFA rankings had no arguments, not even malice or vice, these ingredients which vaguely allow to be delusional when one rushes naked or almost. It's a very good qualification against anyone, which rules out the idea of triumph, but at the same time, no Blue has had the bad taste to suggest the idea in the week preceding. The Blues will play a funny match in Finland on Tuesday. They will not play anything, but not their hosts, who still have a second place in the group to secure ahead of Ukraine, lurking two points behind. It is a place of play-off in the World Cup that is brewing and it is not nothing for a selection like Finland.
Didier Deschamps will have to choose between consolidating this eleven which finally gives emotions since the fiasco of the Euro, with the League of Nations madly torn from the certainty of Belgians or Spaniards who saw themselves finalists or winners, and change to gauge the competition and bubbling. What is certain is that we want to see this team again, with the first four goals offered by the right and left pistons (Coman and Théo Hernandez) or this infernal duo Mbappé - Benzema. These two will eventually make… PSG want to bring them together. In Madrid, they already agree to smash the world with them as scouts of a dream football, alone in front.
Mbappé is advancing ever faster towards a destiny of which only he knows the horizon while his friend goes back in time.
His first goal was a true copy of his last registered at the Parc des Princes with the A, the fifth for France-Australia on October 11, 2013 (6-0).
He was 25 at the time and it looks like he still has them.
The France team has a rare and paradoxical quality: it is getting younger at the same time as it is growing.
In Qatar, it will be necessary to find the youth of 2018.
