This Thursday, Equipe de France will play Spain in the semi-finals of the Nations League at 9pm CET at the Mercedes-Benz Arena. On the eve of the match, Le Parisien and L’Equipe tried to guess the team that will be fielded by coach Didier Deschamps. The match will involve 6 Paris Saint-Germain players. 5 on the French side: Lucas Hernandez, Warren Zaïre-Emery, Désiré Doué, Ousmane Dembélé and Bradley Barcola. And 1 on the Spanish side: Fabian Ruiz. None of them would be starting players in an attempt to change the pattern.
Le Parisien et L’Equipe (4-2-3-1) –
Mbappé
Doué – Olise – Dembélé
Rabiot – Koné
T. Hernandez – Lenglet – Konaté – Kalulu
Maignan
A credible team, given the last few matches and the players called up for these matches in June. However, we can only be sure of this when the squad is officially announced around 1h30 before the match.
Even if the media seem to have better indications with Deschamps’ Equipe de France than Luis Enrique’s PSG. In any case, we’re hoping for a relatively attacking game, given the squad’s great potential. Although, of course, we must be wary of Spain. They’re bound to pose problems.
Gifted on the left could be a solution to break through the Spanish pressure and create danger, as could Barcola. And there could be other options, sometimes with a change in the evening line-up compared to the one announced in the morning.
