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France are making their final preparations for this week’s last friendly before the World Cup.

They play China on Wednesday night in St Etienne and Raymond Domenech has been hinting to the media that the team that starts against China will be the one that starts against the Swiss.
His only major decisions are whether to put Louis Saha in ahead of Trezeguet and Franck Ribery in for Zidane, I can’t see him doing either.

Domenech told a press conference that ‘nowadays there is not much point in playing hide-and-seek with anybody’, in regard to keeping team lineups a secret. He’s right on that point, everybody knows who’ll be in the eleven for the first game so he might as well announce it and tell the opposition ‘now you come and beat us’.

I’d expect wholesale changes at halftime of the China game, just to give as many players a runout before next week’s big game.


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  • http://jassywang.blog.sohu.com/ Jassy Wang

    Franch team is a strong team,also now.Zizou and Herry are great player in the world,but their stile is dissimilar, this is why Herry played in club better than nationnal team,if the coach can deal with Zizou and Herry’s coorperation,I believe France can be the winner!

  • pinaki de

    actually zidane is saving his best for the finals. we can see that. remember what happened to him in 2002. he unnecessarily got injured against korea in a warm up match which ruined his world cup.

  • http://mehtanirav.blogspot.com/ Nirav

    I guess Ribery will be used as a substitute only… and possibly it will b e Cisse to partner Henry

  • Michael

    What a shame about Cisse’s breaking his leg in the friendly with China. How unlucky can a guy get. The injury looks horrific.

    I imagine that Giuly will get the call up now.

  • shuai

    Govou…wtf?
    I hoped too much for Anelka.

  • Claude

    Could and Would Giuly play? Afterall, he has success on his side…

  • Michael

    Claude, you are indeed correct.

  • aude

    I am so pleased to see that people from australia and the US are talking of the french team in a good way. I think France has the guts to win the cup though there have been alredy quite a few surprises . It will be hard to go against the germain machine… and I don’t speak of Brazil (no need to..lol)

  • aude

    Just a little update right now. I am sad to see that the flag of my country (new caledonia) is not the national french flag (which is by all means the official flag).. anyway…good world cup to everyone

  • tapiwa

    france are a great team.they are gonna go all the way to the semi-finals.why i say so is because they would want to prove to the world that they are still a strong team,a team not to be taken for fun.I;m from zimbabwe and i’m ralling behind africa.

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