This Thursday, Equipe de France will play Croatia in the quarter-finals of the Nations League at 8:45pm at the Stade de Poljud. The match will involve 4 Paris Saint-Germain players. 4 on the French side: Warren Zaïre-Emery, Ousmane Dembélé, Désiré Doué and Bradley Barcola. A few hours ahead of the match, RMC Sport clarifies Ousmane Dembélé’s (27-year-old striker) place in the center of the park.
“Ousmane Dembélé will be positioned more in a 10-man role than as a pure number 9, just behind the Mbappé – Kolo Muani duo.
As was the case against Italy in November, this would be a 442 diamond formation with Dembélé as playmaker.”
Such an announcement shortly before the match could well be reliable, although we’ll remain cautious until there’s anything official. In any case, once Dembélé is playing in the center of the park, it’s easy to imagine him dropping back, as he did in Paris, to create chances. While Kylian Mbappé and Randal Kolo Muani should try to make goal-bound calls.
Let’s wait and see exactly how the French team will play, and let’s hope it will be a little more rhythmic and spectacular than some of their matches.
