While Didier Deschamps' group continues to calmly prepare for Saturday's quarter-final against England, the players continue to parade in a press conference without us being able to see Kylian Mbappé's face.

You have to make up your mind, there is little chance that he will appear before us at the World Cup, unless there is a final victory on December 18th.

So we give him an appointment that night.

In the meantime, what happened in the life of the Blues?

We look at this.



Rabiot and the media, the beginning of a love story?

It was the second time that Adrien Rabiot passed on the stage of the press room of the Jassim Bin-Hamad stadium in Doha since the start of the competition and the least we can say is that the boy seems comfortable in the exercise now.

Should we see there the proof of a Rabiot at peace with himself and with the media?

Possibly indeed.

“It's good to be able to talk, to be heard.

It's still not my favorite exercise, but there is an improvement in the relationship between you and me,” he said with a smile.

"It's nice to be recognized," admitted the former Parisian, who told us for a time that he had suffered from criticism which, in his opinion, did not always deserve.

Walker evokes Mbappé in conf

It has become THE number 1 topic of discussion on one side or the other of the Channel: the duel of racing cars between Kylian Mbappé and Kyle Walker.

"It's true that they are two great players, Walker is one of the best right-backs in the world, I can't wait to see the battle between him and Kylian", explained Ibrahima Konaté in conf on Wednesday evening.

Asked for his part about the French striker, the City player tried to calm the Mbappé-mania a little: “I understand why we are focusing on that, but it's not England-Mbappé, it's England- France.

He is a top player but we don't play tennis, it's a team sport.

It will be a tough game, and I'm not going to roll out the red carpet for him to score.

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He is "THE LAST WEAPON", the only man who can stop wars, eradicate poverty, and catch up with Kylian Mbappé.

Kyle "superman" Walkerhttps://t.co/ml5AEzRPZo

— J.Laloye (@Zonemixte) December 7, 2022

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Mbappé is back

The subject will have occupied our English colleagues for 24 hours but they will have to face the facts, absent from collective training on Tuesday, Kylian Mbappé was indeed back with the group the next day, proof that there was nothing to worry about as the staff had let us know the day before.

It is therefore a full workforce that trained out of sight, Wednesday, on the billiards of the Jassim-Bin-Hamad stadium.

The program of the day

Press conference with two players at 2:45 p.m. French time, to follow on the live general of the 2022 World Cup on our site, then training in stride.

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