Deschamps before Finland-France: "It's not a friendly match"

No particular concern, the 23 will all participate in the small session tonight.

Efficient? It's a very good thing, and it hasn't always been the case, that players bring freshness and dynamism off the bench. He has that. It's part of his qualities. If he can start? Yes, like the 22 others. Finally, not 22 since it is Hugo (Lloris) who will play and be captain. He can evolve in different positions. In his club (Leverkusen), he plays a little more on the sides. This year, a little more to the left than to the right, but with freedom. He is versatile, a great capacity for acceleration, rather skillful and has a good volume of play, not to mention this desire ... The France team needs this type of player too. He didn't start a game but it was interesting when he came in.

I will not make any comparison, I hate to compare different eras and different players. The only relationship, which unites these two generations, is the world coronation. The players are different today. There is, as in 1998, talent, quality, a state of mind and a mentality which made it possible to know these two titles.

It will be (Tuesday).

Alphonse does not start with his club but his five matches with West Ham have gone very well, especially the last three.

He has an experience, a background, a little more important than Benoit (Costil).

But the latter could have been number 2, he did the last two courses.

Afterwards, no problem with the state of mind, the involvement and what I expect from them.

I always assume that we have to respect the game and the opponent, in this case Finland but also the other teams. We have the peace of mind of coming knowing that we are not playing our qualification, so much the better, but that is not why I will make more or less changes. There will be some changes. I don't know how many. I will decide (Tuesday). This is not a friendly match, it is the last of the calendar year. From my side, and from yours too, there will be an analysis. When you wear the France team jersey, there is a duty and a requirement. After, the playoffs, the statistics, I don't want to play with that. We will play to get the best result. It doesn't mean it will be the same team. We must have the intentions to finish this qualification course well,

It's a different option. Afterwards, it's a balance of power. If I think the force is more on our side like that, I will have to make the same decision. If we speak specifically of Kingsley, in a match like against Kazakhstan, in which we are supposed to be very offensive, he brings everything an attacking player brings. That didn't stop him from making the returns. Opposite, he had a defender, that posed less problems. If he had to do with another attacking player, that remains to be seen. It also requires adjustments. When I put Kingsley in that position, I don't want to see him defend in front of the box. It requires compensation. The three defense can be increased to four. We can also imagine two very offensive options on the sides. In general, itis more one of the two in order to keep a certain balance. But if I did it there, it's because I thought it was the right time. And with what Kingsley did, in his form on Saturday, it changes a lot of things, it brings more to our offensive animation. I think this is likely to be repeated in the future.

He is trained as a central defender, although I have used him as a side or in the lane.

In the current squad, there are other players that I took to play in the axis.

Afterwards, in the future, why not ... But every time I took it, it was in this register.

It's part of the challenges. When there are series, we want them to last as long as possible. But again, when you wear this jersey, you have homework. The players all have an interest, the holders or those who return, to be as efficient as possible at the time and in relation to what awaits us. Not that I attach more importance than necessary to the fact of being equal or not, of doing better. It is above all a question of requirement, of performance, it is the high level. The players are competitors. After the great moment of happiness on Saturday, we have one three days later, we have to put it back, put everything back to get the result we want.

We will do an analysis after the game. But we have confirmation that a qualification campaign is never easy, regardless of the group. Reaching the goal is always important. We did it before the last match, even if we left some points on the way, with these two draws at home in particular, against Ukraine and Bosnia. But the France team is there. Being present at the next World Cup is essential for the French team, the federation and French football. If there is only one high point to emerge, it is last Saturday, we have registered our participation in the World Cup. With the Parc des Princes full, we were able to share emotions. Even though there were other emotions, and they were important too,before the match compared to the commemorations of what happened in previous years (the attacks of 2013, Editor's note). This is the moment that is most important.

Obviously, the repetition of training sessions and especially matches makes it possible to refine the technical relationship, the complementarity, with and without the ball.

The more time the better.

Even if the coaches are always short of time… Unfortunately, not all of them have always been available.

I hope it will be, even if we are never safe ... I hope we can have different options.

If I talk to players about the UEFA index as a criterion of motivation (smile)… It goes in the direction of the requirement and the duty that we must have. Afterwards, when we see what we did last month, beating Belgium and Spain, we only recovered 25 points ... I would have thought more ... I don't know how that is calculated (smile) . It is better to have the best possible ranking, but once again, that goes through the requirement and the duty that we have. You cannot neglect a match, there is no reason, no excuse to do so. It is important to respect the game, the opponents, as we did against Kazakhstan, and I told them at half-time.

My phone did not ring on this subject.

Even if I can understand that they have interests… If we had played on Wednesday, it could have been a problem for clubs playing on Friday.

Moreover, some players will be affected by a match on Friday.

But this will not be a criterion for my choices.