France are World Cup contenders but they also have a rich history of implosion. Could this be one of those years? twoht on France.
France have a formidable squad and high expectations, but they’ve also had bad luck with injuries and have a historical tendency to implode.France arrive at the 2022 World Cup in an unusual position. The draw has been good to them and they’re widely tipped to reach the latter stages of the competition, but even though they arrive with something approaching an embarrassment of playing riches, their injury record has been terrible and with problems continuing to accumulate.
, an absence that will feel like a bigger blow to anything that came before. It’s notable that Didier Deschamps has not called in a replacement for Benzema. The nature of the injury – a muscle tear – would seem to indicate no realistic chance of being back in time for the latter stages. And on top of all that, back-up goalkeeper Mike Maignan is out for the tournament with a calf injury and there are question marks over the fitness of both Raphael Varane and Jules Kounde.
For all the issues they’ve had with injuries in recent months, there is a degree of formidability about the list of names that makes up their squad. For attacking options alone, they have Mbappe, Kingsley Coman, Olivier Giroud, Antoine Griezmann, Randal Kolo Muani and Ousmane Dembele at their disposal. The losses of Benzema and Nkunku are both big, but there’s enough quality there to absorb them.
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