Paris (AFP)

Six months before Euro-2020 (June 12-July 12), Kylian Mbappé continues to score goal on goal with Paris-SG, a joy that Karim Benzema also has with Real Madrid and which Eduardo Camavinga, the young nugget from Rennes, who scored the very first goal of his career in Ligue 1 against Lyon.

- Mbappé sees double -

Sick and absent from the match sheet during the last meeting of the Blues in Albania in mid-November (2-0), Kylian Mbappé has since recovered all his faculties. Sunday in Saint-Étienne (4-0), the N.7 Parisien signed their fifth consecutive game with at least one goal in all competitions. He even scored two, almost identical, served each time by Neymar. His complicity on the ground with the Brazilian again jumped to the eyes and the young world champion could have embellished his statistics without a few hiccups, especially from the head, a sector where he still has to progress.

- Camavinga, young premier -

Eduardo Camavinga chose the 89th minute to offer himself a fantastic ride, punish Lyon (1-0) and offer Rennes, his training club, a precious victory in the Rhône. At 17, the Breton nugget, recently naturalized French, scored his first goal in Ligue 1, a month after his first summons to Sylvain Ripoll's Espoirs. Already brilliant in August against PSG, Camavinga continues to take the steps with ease and disconcerting maturity. Enough to get on Didier Deschamps's Blues train? The coach will deliver a first response in March, with the two friendly matches planned against Ukraine and Finland.

- Benzema does not stop -

Still shunned by the French federation, Karim Benzema (31) never stops saving Real Madrid. This time, he allowed his family to avoid a big disillusionment on the lawn of Valence (1-1) Sunday by improving a ball dragging in the surface in the stoppages. The former Lyonnais, transformed into a mechanical finisher all retaining his role as center dropout, flies over this start to the season at Real, and rises to first place in the league's scoring chart, tied with Lionel Messi (12 goals), just before a clasico of high flight Wednesday in Barcelona.

For any other player, these performances would be enough to open the doors of the French team again ... But his last appearance in the Blues dates back to October 2015, against Armenia (4-0), where he had two goals and an assist. Since then, the sex tape affair involving Mathieu Valbuena has been there and Didier Deschamps no longer selected him. Can he return to the national team, but in the Olympic jersey in Tokyo next summer? "He is selectable, he is not suspended by the Federation," replied the president of the FFF Noël Le Graët, last week in an interview with AFP. "After all, it seems improbable all the same. I can't see Sylvain Ripoll (coach of the Hopes and the Olympic team) contradicting Didier."

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