The French team is expected after the slap received in the Netherlands (2-0). For this, it will have to be much more effective, especially offensively, against Uruguay (21 h).

The collective sinking of Rotterdam, Friday evening, will have to be erased by this "der" of the year. He highlighted several bankruptcies, including that of the poverty of the French offensive animation (seven shots, two squared, no frank opportunity). "We could have played hours without scoring, we missed a lot of things, especially in the use of the ball," Lloris said after the match. "The relationship between the three attackers was weak," confirmed Kylian Mbappé on Sunday.

Questioned yesterday on the issue, Didier Deschamps stressed "the few exchanges, situations, sequences. We can only improve that. It goes through a lot of things: the relationship between the attackers, the balloons that must arrive, the movements. All that has been lacking in the Netherlands, and has appeared with too much intermittence since the World Cup.

An offensive connection to perfect

Giroud, Griezmann and Mbappé have certainly not been helped by their partners, who have had a hard time getting out clean balloons and putting them in good conditions. 4-3-3 used in the Netherlands was inconclusive. He distended the relationship between three complementary elements on paper, but too isolated. Giroud did not exist apart from a few rebates away from goal, Griezmann is never as effective as when he plays 4-2-3-1 in support of the first (which is expected tonight), and the initiatives individual ones of the third have all been in vain.

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It is interesting to dwell on the case of Mbappé. The prodigy of Bondy, 19, tricolor player the most decisive in 2018 (9 goals, 4 assists), is the accelerator in chief of the vertical game of the France team and the indispensable element of the rapid attacks it fond. But since the World Cup, he is targeted as the number 1 danger by his opponents. In the Netherlands, he had to take shots at two of the Dutch, who muzzled him very well. On all grounds, this will now be the case and he will still have to cross this course to join the elite. It may be even more efficient in the axis, where sooner or later it will evolve.

Giroud suffering (a goal on his last fourteen selections) and closer to the end than the beginning (32 years), the future of the team of France will pass by the development of the relationship between Mbappé and Griezmann, still unclear today. "It's up to me to work on his calls, on what he likes, " Grizou said in September. It's complicated because we have little time to do it in selection. It is by watching his videos and his movements that I will be able to put balloons on him. "

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Three months later, despite good runs against the Netherlands in the first leg (2-1) and against Germany in November (2-1), the relationship Mbappé-Griezmann is still largely perfectible. New opportunity to improve tonight for the "der" of the year, in a game of redemption.

The meeting is to follow live on our site from 21 h.