Bad news for France

Three months after their World Cup final lost to Argentina, the French team launched their qualifying campaign for Euro 2024 perfectly at the end of March. After atomizing the Netherlands at the Stade de France, the Blues were indeed winning in Ireland. Two victories which allowed the troops of Didier Deschamps to take an option on the qualification and France to make a good operation in the Fifa Ranking.

Third after the Qatari World Cup, France took advantage of Brazil’s defeat in Morocco to take second place and get closer to Argentina, the new leader. Forced to play friendly matches, the Albiceleste has certainly won its two matches against Panama and Curaçao but its two successes have hardly been profitable and the Blues only point to 2.48 points from Argentina.

Scotland, only 36th in the FIFA rankings

France can legitimately hope to seize the first place according to the next international windows. It will not be in June since the vice-world champions will successively face Greece and Gibraltar, two opponents who will not allow the Blues to fall behind regardless of the opponents of Argentina. France, if it has a string of victories, will more surely have to wait for the start of the school year, where the reception of Ireland in September and then the reception of the Netherlands in October await it in particular.

Placed in a group of 5, France will also have to play two friendly matches. And while waiting for the confirmation of a meeting against Germany in September, the English press revealed on Monday that the Blues should also welcome Scotland in October. The Scots created the sensation by dominating Spain in March but only point to 36th place in the Fifa Ranking. A victory will therefore only bring 2.14 points, which should not allow France to make a big close compared to Argentina unless the Albicleste still chain meetings against stooges like in March. The program of the world champions is not yet known.