A last one before we go.
In full, at least at the beginning, the 26 Blues – they were much less numerous at the end – carried out their second and already last work session at Clairefontaine on Tuesday, the day before the big departure towards Qatar.
Led by Didier Deschamps and his staff, the French team appeared around 5:45 p.m. on the training ground, after a busy day.
On the menu: official photo - which did not fail to make people talk - in the morning and individual interviews with journalists in the afternoon.
And finally the land.
This ground that the Blues will only see five times in Doha, one session a day from Thursday, before facing Australia next Tuesday (8 p.m. Paris time), for their entry into the running at the World Cup (November 20-December 18).
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Temperature this Wednesday?
Fresh.
12 small degrees at the entrance of the artists on the meadow of Clairefontaine.
That is… 20 less than what awaits them in Doha!
Thermal shock in sight.
In the meantime, the 200 or so supporters were present at the edge of the field and had their hearts warmed by their heroes.
Small signing session, a good half hour with fans for the Blues, before work.
The irreducible warm up the atmosphere
Which fans then took their place in the gallery, adorned with the following message, on a blue-white-red banner: “Make our stars shine”.
Singing, drumming, clapping: the Indomitables accompanied the first strides of Deschamps' men.
They didn't stop encouraging the world champions afterwards despite the not really happy weather, between the temperature, a little drizzle and then real drops.
On the field, studious work, a few smiles and friendly jostling between the players.
Relatively light session in three parts, starting with a warm-up in which the 26 Habs participated.
Karim Benzema, he left his little comrades after these inaugural 15 minutes, in the company of Cyril Moine, the preparer of the Blues.
No worries at first.
In any case, no new problem.
But it's not really encouraging all the same… Already on Monday, the Ballon d'Or was limited to a few laps of the field with his teammates before doing specific work alongside Aurélien Tchouameni and Raphaël Varane.
15 minutes later, after an exercise with the ball, the Real midfielder and the MU defender followed the former Lyonnais.
Ditto for Hugo Lloris and Steve Mandanda.
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Konaté is popular, Nkunku worried
Difficult to draw real lessons from such a session?
Not false.
We will all the same remember that Ibrahima Konaté was positioned left axial, with boys like Kylian Mbappé, Lucas Hernandez and other Antoine Griezmann.
From there to imagine the defender of Liverpool associated with Varane against Australia, there is only one step… We remember that Deschamps indicated Monday, after the officialization of the package of Presnel Kimpembe, that he did not see only two left axis options in defense, Konaté and Dayot Upamecano.
This time, it was with William Saliba that he was playing.
Benjamin Pavard on the right, the Rabiot / Fofana doublet in the middle, Olivier Giroud in front, with Antoine Griezmann and Christopher Nkunku alongside "KM" in front.
We are not going to dare to consider a 4-2-3-1 for Australia, but it
The main information is perhaps that said Nkunku came out just before the end of training, a blow visibly, frowning and limping a little.
Worry ?
Didier Deschamps had nothing to say about it, too soon, it will be up to the doctor to speak.
In the evening, or later.
One thing is certain: the world champions don't need any more bad news before leaving.
They have already had their account in this area.
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