Deschamps in danger

After the 2024-2025 season of the League of Nations, it is anecdotal, the French team completely responded to the eliminations of the World Cup 2026 times 48 The teams, but the European qualifications can clearly bring down the greats of the Old Continent. Didier Deschamps’ Blues are among the top seeds in the sorting draw scheduled for this Friday at Fifa headquarters (12 p.m. on Fifa.com) and will therefore avoid big names like Spain, England, Germany and Portugal , Belgian or Italian.

France will have to finish at the top of its group to secure its ticket for the next World Cup. The 12 runners-up will compete in play-offs with four drafted from the Nations League, but the play-off format clearly favors surprises with the Final Four in one match (and not two-way confrontations). The Italian 2021 European champion is the winner of the semi-final against the North Macedonian. The terrible disaster scenario: Deschamps would not play his 4th last World Cup at the head of the French selection…

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In hat 2, there are at least four teams capable of creating a surprise. If we take the ranking of the most valued European teams by Transfer marketwe find Turkey and Norway in 9th and 10th place. The Turkish group « weighs » 390 million euros thanks in particular to Hakan Çalhanoglu, Arda Güler and Kenan Yildiz, appreciates at 40 million euros. The Norwegian selection is valued at $368 million for Erling Haaland (200 million euros!) and without the value of Martin Odegaard (absent due to the last rally).

In 12th and 13th place among the European teams, we find Sweden of Alexander Isak and Viktor Gyökeres (two young scorers valued at 70 million euros) and Ukraine of Oleksandr Zinchenko, Artem Dovbyk, Ilya Zabarnyi and Mykhaylo Mudryk, here Are all estimated at 30 million. Finally, in this little game, we find the 19th and 20th from the Old Continent in pot 3 of the draw: Ireland of Evan Ferguson and Caoimhin Kelleher and Scotland of Scott McTominay and Andrew Robertson. It will absolutely be necessary to avoid this type of national teams…