France-Germany, this Saturday March 23 (9 p.m.), looks like an aperitif which does not yet tell the menu which will follow, but which it would be wrong to snub. Euro 2024 is approaching, even if our immediate appetite refers to European feasts with three French clubs still in the competitions, PSG in the Champions League, OM and Lille.
To wait, here is an eternal poster, with the two pillars of the European Union but above all a rich footballing history, the mythology of Seville 1982 still populating our dreams and our nightmares then our dreams and definitely our nightmares. It’s the match we always come back to in a country that has won two World Cups, because the French have long preferred the means to the end, the manner to the result.
“Additional answers for the final list”
Didier Deschamps has changed the scene since, as a player then as a coach, the man of the two stars displayed this Saturday in Lyon on a new jersey, which recalls the heroes of 1984, the year of the double, Euro and Olympic gold medal , who has been looking for a successor for forty years. Let the Blues, the big guys, already win the European Championship and we’ll see afterwards.
France-Germany thus verifies that they are still the huge favorites for the summer event (June 14-July 14), with England’s Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane, without considerably modifying the balance of the boss’s future list des A. “We are coming back from a four-month break. All meetings are important, slips Didier Deschamps. This will help us to have additional answers for the final list. »
This friendly will also provide information on the progress of the Nationalmannschaft, strangely the last team to have beaten (2-1) the Blues. It was already for nothing, last September, a pivotal Jean-Clair Todibo-William Saliba evening and without Kylian Mbappé. With other defenders and with the crack of PSG, Julian Nagelsmann’s men should feel the difference at Groupama Stadium.
How to understand life without Antoine Griezmann?
Organizer of Euro 2024, Germany has just fired its equipment supplier, a national brand with three stripes, to go under the American flag, causing a stir even among its political class. It is true that for several months, we have no longer recognized it, while it is rumored that in the event of a new fiasco (round of 16 at Euro 2021; elimination in the first round of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups), the The immense Jürgen Klopp could come to his bedside in the short or medium term.
The Tricolores do not have this problem, with a superstar coach, capable of calmly destroying the national technical director on his penalty shootout project. They still have one: life without Antoine Griezmann, here and there for 84 meetings, a seven-year term. Without the A’s best passer, they will have to find solutions, each doing a little more.
Warren Zaire-Emery will be there, he who at 18 is preparing to have two starts in two call-ups and selections, doing better than his captain today, Kylian Mbappé. Cracks, promising young talents, a solid team: the Germans come to closely observe the French model, in a story with reversed fronts.
