Griezmann & Pogba lead France's 23-man final World Cup squad as Payet & Martial dropped
Goalkeepers: Hugo Lloris (Tottenham Hotspur), Steve Mandanda (Marseille), Alphonse Areola (PSG)
Defenders: Djibril Sidibé (AS Monaco), Benjamin Pavard (VfB Stuttgart), Raphaël Varane (Real Madrid), Presnel Kimpembe (PSG), Adil Rami (Marseille), Samuel Umtiti (FC Barcelona), Lucas Hernandez (Atletico Madrid), Benjamin Mendy (Manchester City)
Midfielders: Paul Pogba (Manchester United), N’Golo Kanté (Chelsea FC), Corentin Tolisso (Bayern Munich), Blaise Matuidi (Juventus), Steven N’Zonzi (Sevilla)
Attackers: Kylian Mbappé (PSG), Olivier Giroud (Chelsea FC), Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid), Ousmane Dembélé (FC Barcelona), Nabil Fékir (Lyon), Florian Thauvin (Marseille), Thomas Lemar (AS Monaco)
Reserve List for the France World Cup Squad (11): Wissam Ben Yedder (Sevilla), Kingsley Coman (Bayern Munich), Benoît Costil (Bordeaux), Mathieu Debuchy (St Étienne), Lucas Digne (FC Barcelona), Alexandre Lacazette (Arsenal FC), Anthony Martial (Manchester United), Adrien Rabiot (PSG), Mamadou Sakho (Crystal Palace), Moussa Sissoko (Tottenham Hotspur), Kurt Zouma (Chelsea).
Barcelona-Arsenal
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The big news is Laca doesnt make it in...... im a bit surprised, but France already has centre forwards like Giroud, Griezmann that they needed wingers like Fekir, Lemar, and Thauvin... Congrats to Dembele making it in despite a trying first barca season, he made it over the likes of martial and laca... Arsenal used to clearly be embedded in France, with Internationals laca, Giroud, Koscielny, Pires, Henry, etc. yet here we are, not one Arsenal player picked in the 23-man team, showing Arsenal's identity has changed to what seems the bigger players from places like Bosnia, Greece, etc. In my own personal feel, I think Varane and Umtitti will be great partners in defense, Varane making up for Umtitti's lack of speed, and Umtitti playing solid in defense allowing Varane to be flexible.... wished to see Alban Lafont at least in the Reserve list as surely he will be a feature 5-7 years down the road.... Rabiot put on the reserve because this team has just too much talent
aqib_10_
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feeling sad for martial, payet and lacazatte
manchestergingin
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...this issue of José messing young talents isn't right...lingard has been included in the English team playing under Jose...Martial shd back up...lemar has a place in the French team ever since...his performance has been consistent...martial isn't consistent with his performance... he comes alive this game and switch's off tomorrow... don't forget even Kingsley coman is dropped whose fault is it? Bayern manager or who? I placed a comment here urging martial to work hard...since he will still find it hard to start in most elite European clubs...juventus Bayern real Madrid Barcelona Liverpool Chelsea man city..unless he lifts his game or moves to a relatively smaller club...the mo salah KDB argument is one for another day...coz that team Jose built that time won a title and wasn't compulsory for him to start them... they saw themselves as starters so they opted to leave... it happens....fergie played Rafael in midfield in an EPL game when he had pogba...pogba left for Juve and became a big star...mou gave morata the chance in Madrid so how about that...young Michael essien played under José in Chelsea...batshuayi left Chelsea and is doing good with Dortmund so conte is a bad manager...loftus cheek was left to leave now he is part of the English squad...James and many players have problems with managers and other conditions
aqib_10_
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jose wasting young talents. because of him only martial is not included
ChloeSam18
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Woww Benzema not included?? France have many talented & good players I think we shouldn’t complaining why Martial, Coman or lacazette is not giving a chance. Yes they are trying hard and I’m sure the coach see all the hard work they’ve put but Didier Deschamps just have better option than them. Hope these players will not stop their hard work just because failing to go WC but will continue for the better improvement for themselves & for the future. ⚽️✌🏻
Darmyalone
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,banned
Benzema was banned just because French people has show to the world they dont forgive. I was delayed at Charles degor airport just because I couldn't speak French. See the case of nasri. I believe Benzema is punished fully because he succumed to Ronaldo. Which striker is better than BENZEMA on the list ? Let's bet it BENZEMA will score the only goal in champions league final. in short. BENZEMA I am officially you personal fan
IndikaAsiriSR4
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True🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥