Jean-Baptiste Sarrazin 7:24 p.m., December 10, 2022
France and England meet for the first time in their history in a knockout match in international competition on Saturday 10 December.
A match to live in full in "Europe 1 Sport" from 8 p.m.
The winner will qualify for the semi-finals where they will face Morocco.
Last quarter-final of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where France, reigning world champion challenges England with the ambition of joining Croatia, Argentina and Morocco, qualified a little earlier against Portugal, in the last square.
The winner of this match will face Morocco next Wednesday.
The Mbappé-Walker duel to watch
It will of course be necessary to watch the duel between Kylian Mbappé and Kyle Walker which promises to be explosive.
Both players have an exceptional point of speed which could lead to a very nice duel on the left side.
Lloris will overtake Thuram
Obviously holder for this quarter-final, Hugo Lloris will become the only record holder for the number of selections in Blues, with 142 caps.
He will overtake the former tricolor defender Lilian Thuram who had 141 selections with the France team.
143 – Hugo Lloris will honor his 143rd selection in @equipedefrance, a record in the history of the Blues.
Captain.
#ANGFRA pic.twitter.com/knk7DAv9xe
— OptaJean (@OptaJean) December 10, 2022
The English discover the lawn
Checking out that pitch #threelionspic.twitter.com/9NlXsvpQCb
— England (@England) December 10, 2022
England-France line-ups
: England: Pickford – Walker, Stones, Maguire, Shaw – Henderson, Rice, Bellingham – Saka, Kane (cap.), Foden.
France: Lloris (cap.) – Koundé, Varane, Upamecano, T. Hernandez – Griezmann, Tchouaméni, Rabiot – Dembélé, Giroud, Mbappé.
The compositions of the two teams
England line up their standard team!
No change in the eleven of Southgate, who decided to put the same team as against Senegal: Pickford - Walker, Stones, Maguire, Shaw - Henderson, Rice, Bellingham - Saka, Kane, Foden.
On the side of the Blues, Didier Deschamps decided to renew the eleven scorer of Poland on Sunday (3-1).
Koundé is once again aligned as a right-back.
In the middle, the Griezmann-Tchouaméni-Rabiot trio will be associated.
In front, Mbappé, Giroud and Dembélé will start on the lawn of the Al-Bayt stadium.