Jean-Baptiste Sarrazin
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9:30 p.m., November 20, 2022
Raphaël Varane will he start, this Tuesday evening at 8 p.m., to face Denmark Convalescent, the defender of the Blues is slowly recovering from “his muscular glitch” and should be fit to start the World Cup in Qatar. Outstanding guest ofEurope 1 Sport, Didier Deschamps’ assistant Guy Stephan wants to be reassuring about the vice-captain of the Blues.
“We are confident that he will recover and that at the end of the week he will be able to resume the different playing times, and therefore the duels”, specified the member of the staff of the France team. And it’s done, Varane took part, Saturday evening, in a collective session with the team, which suggests an imminent return to the field, perhaps as early as Tuesday evening.
“Someone who means a lot”
The return to the workforce of the tricolor defender would be very good news, especially after the black series of last-minute injuries including Karim Benzema, who had to forfeit Saturday evening. “We have confidence in him”, certified Didier Deschamps’ assistant in Europe 1 Sport.
“He is a personality who has grown, who has been with us since the start, he arrived with us in 2012 and had his first selection in 2013, he is someone who means a lot in the locker room, who has taken scale,” said Guy Stephan about Raphaël Varane. “He is able to express himself before the match, at half-time, he is a player who matters,” he continued.
four-man defense
The coach of the Blues should line up a four-man defense for the match against Australia on Tuesday evening at 8 p.m., a match which will be followed live in Europe 1 Sport. A tactical choice that has not been seen in the France team since 2018.
“Didier (Deschamps) felt that in the matches that we played with three or five, we left too many possibilities to the opponent and that we were in too much trouble”, justified Guy Stephan at the microphone of Europe 1 Sport, before concluding: “With the return to a four-man defense, Didier thinks that this is the system where we will be the most efficient.”