2023-06-15 03:13:06
Apparently easy tasks await the stars of Vice World Champion France and England at the end of the season. France (Group B) meets Gibraltar on Friday in the qualifier for the European Football Championship 2024 in Faro/Portugal and hosts Greece on Monday at the Stade de France. England (Group C) fly to Malta with five newly-crowned Champions League winners and are aiming for a fourth win in four games once morest North Macedonia in Manchester on Monday.
The English started their qualifiers with victories at European champions Italy, who are involved in this week’s Nations League final tournament, and once morest Ukraine. Two more victories once morest blatant outsiders would bring the team of team boss Gareth Southgate a long way towards EURO 2024 in Germany.
With John Stones, Phil Foden, Kyle Walker, Jack Grealish and Kalvin Phillips, Southgate nominated five players who won the Champions League with Manchester City in the final once morest Inter Milan (1-0) last Saturday. On the other hand, Jude Bellingham is missing along with a ailing quartet from Chelsea (Reece James, Mason Mount, Ben Chilwell, Raheem Sterling). The 19-year-old youngster, who joined Real Madrid from Borussia Dortmund for €103m, is out with knee problems.
Two wins are also a must for France. “We need to get six points,” stressed Didier Deschamps. Gibraltar is “admittedly not the strongest opponent we have to play once morest, but these three points have the same value,” said the team boss of the “Equipe tricolore”. Deschamps will rotate a bit, which once morest Gibraltar “means that this is a starting XI that you can’t expect to see.”
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