Europe 1 with AFP 22:56, November 13, 2021
The Blues and Kylian Mbappé will defend their title in Qatar next year: flamboyant winners of Kazakhstan with a quadruple from the Parisian striker at the Parc des Princes on Saturday (8-0), the French world champions have validated their ticket for the World Cup -2022 before the end of the playoffs.
The French team, the reigning world champion, won their qualification for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar after their 8-0 demonstration against Kazakhstan on Saturday at the Parc des Princes.
The Blues will participate in their 16th World Cup final phase (from November 21 to December 18, 2022) thanks to a quadruplet from Kylian Mbappé (6, 12, 32 and 87th), a double from Karim Benzema (55 and 59th), a goal from Adrien Rabiot (75th) and a penalty from Antoine Griezmann (84th).
Twenty-eight years after the last failure of the Blues in the qualifying phase, in this same stadium against Bulgaria (2-1), the France team can measure the progress made.
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Since this debacle of 1993, in addition to her two world titles and her European coronation, she has qualified for the 14 major tournaments that followed.
Validating their ticket on the penultimate day has the advantage of offering the Blues peace of mind for the trip on Tuesday (8:45 p.m.) to the second in the group, Finland.
This also confirms the newfound standing of the selection of Didier Deschamps, unbeaten in these qualifiers and who is among the first to qualify for Qatar, after Germany, Brazil and Denmark.
After the title in the League of Nations, this ticket comfortably off the hook gives a little more weight to the thesis of the accident in the eighth of the Euro, these famous "ten minutes of distraction" against Switzerland, advanced by the management as an explanation.