The work situation has been different than usual for Lasse Jacobsson.

The pandemic stopped all national team football, which has meant that the Swedish scout has not seen any newly played matches.

Instead, he has had to lean on the material that existed before covid-19.Jacobsson feels no major concern about it, and that is given that the national team captain Didier Deschamps has been in the same role since 2012 and that the French national team has had a certain way of playing for a longer period of time.

"They are attacking"

- It is a skilled team that usually works its way from playing surface to playing surface, preferably centrally and with combinations.

They want to come with right-handed players between the opponent's back line and midfield.

They attack.

Have offensive fullbacks, no matter who they choose, says Jacobsson.

How are you going to stop them?

- It is to make sure that we close to the center, that they are not allowed to play there, he says and continues:

- You must relate to your teammates and the ball in position defense.

It may be a strength when you meet a team that has a lot of movement.

You do not care how much they move and you usually say "let them run".

The most important thing is to get them out on the edges and that they must not be combined centrally.

"Can get surfaces"

Defensively, France is zone-oriented, and there Lasse Jacobsson believes that the national team can create some chaos and thus arrive at goal chances at home at Friends arena.

- It is possible to move their players so that we can get surfaces.

Then they work with direct recapture, they want to win the ball back quickly and often stay with the fullbacks, he says.

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Mikael Lustig and Victor Nilsson Lindelöf.

Photo: Bildbyrån