Didier Deschamps -

CHRISTOPHE SAIDI / SIPA

We know him, our national Didier Deschamps.

Never get excited after a draw, even when it offers you Ukraine, Finland, Bosnia and Kazakhstan in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers, in other words nothing very threatening when you are champion of the world title and that we have just left a group raised in League of Nations.

But the coach of the Blues does not hear it like that.

“Everyone can have a different interpretation of a print,” DD began.

We know our opponents, two of whom we know very well having met them recently, namely Ukraine and Finland.

The France team has never played against Kazakhstan.

Beyond the opponents, it is the fact of having very long trips, we have to wait until tomorrow (Tuesday) evening to have the schedule.

There will also be playing three games in nine days in March.

I'm not going to jump to the ceiling over the draw.

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"The risk is to consider yourself stronger than the others"

A heavy schedule, but it could have been worse if UEFA had not planned to drop the semi-finalists of the final four of the League of Nations in groups of five, although DD, again, does not with little enthusiasm.

“Being in a group of five, I'm not sure that's a plus or a minus.

The risk is always to consider yourself stronger than others.

Certainly, by its results, France is favorite, it is the label that we will have.

But we must not neglect our opponents by thinking that, because we are stronger on paper, the field will necessarily prove us right.

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2022 World Cup qualifiers: Ukraine, Finland, Kazakhstan… The French team inherits an affordable group

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