They have a typical team, a conquering state of mind, from the bench and a few questions that other selections envy, such as whether Olivier Giroud should participate in the World Cup or not.
The Blues will now know three of their opponents.
Finally, no doubt because the play-offs for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have not yet revealed all their secrets, with three final candidates still to be revealed.
Under the annoyed gaze of the Italians, Algerians, Swedes, Chileans or Egyptians, or that prevented from the Russians, all out of the competition before it started (November 21 - December 18), the French team of Didier Deschamps looking forward to the draw made this Friday from Doha from 6 p.m. (live on TMC and beIN Sport).
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Installed among the top seeds, the world champions are sure and certain not to meet in the first round of the event the seven other nations of pot 1: Brazil, Belgium, Spain, England, Argentina, Portugal and Qatar, the host country which is taking part in its first World Cup with the ambition of reaching the round of 16.
Strong is to be feared
But the "protection" of Hugo Lloris' partners stops there.
They can inherit Germany, Senegal, the Netherlands, Uruguay, Croatia or Cameroon, not all at the same time of course but just one from this list will be enough to make people shiver.
In short, the strong is to be feared, less than a year after a group stage at Euro 2021 which rolled the Blues, emerged bloodless from fights against Germany, Hungary and Portugal and eliminated from the 8th finals against Switzerland, which will be there, like a nightmare to be erased.
Whatever the draw this Friday, it will be the time for projections, bets and dreams, crossing the tables, imagining what cannot be, the qualifiers for the rest of the tournament.
Each time, we know that it is useless but we do it anyway.
The Blues, they are trying to live in reality and they are advancing towards Doha with only one idea in mind: to succeed themselves.
For Karim Benzema, for whom it will only be the second World Cup when Cristiano Ronaldo will play his fifth edition, the obsession will be to expand one of the finest individual records in French football, with a final scheduled the day before. of his 35 years.
He is not the only one to have a last chance: CR7 therefore but also his eternal rival Leo Messi, two legends kept standing by this World Cup scheduled for the first time in the fall.