N'Golo Kante is reportedly set to miss three months of football after suffering a hamstring injury in training. Out for WC

Sorry for the player but good news for the Socceroos-Kante is such a midfield dynamo and ball winner.

Despite that I wouldn’t wish an injury on any player before a WCup, Kante tore up nearly every attack by Roos in Russia so can only benefit Australia with him out

Raphael Varane was in tears as he left the pitch injured against Chelsea

The World Cup begins in less than a month.

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Pogba ruled out of WC. Probably a blessing for France anyway. It'll be interesting to see how this younger brigade go as a team. They could be absolutely lethal or get bitten. 

I think the French NT team will do ok despite those 2 known injuries.
They got depth easily as long as they click.
https://www.givemesport.com/88078128-world-cup-2022-frances-squad-depth-is-scary-even-without-kante-or-pogba
What rich's - 3 walk in players each position.

Pogba is the very definition of a player that lazily squandered his talent.  Plays when he feels like it and not a team man in my opinion so they won't miss him that much.  

Kante is very decent however as indicated the French have sooooooo much depth in all of their positions.  

However it's going to be Socceroos 4 France 0.    

:hehe:

Well we know who we've got now

                             Ryan
            Wright Degenek Rowles
Karacic           Devlin                  Behich  
                        Mooy 
         Boyle   Cummings  Goodwin

I'd save Souttar for Tunisia. Unlikely we'll have a back 3 so:

                        Ryan
   Karacic Wright Rowles Behich
                 Devlin Mooy
                     Irvine
        Boyle Cummings Mabil           

This above formation with something a bit wilder

                        Ryan 
   Karacic Wright Rowles Behich
                  Devlin
              Baccus Hrustic
     Boyle  Cummings McGree

https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/La-liste-des-26-de-l-australie-avec-garang-kuol-pour-la-coupe-du-monde/1363736

The French reaction. Spat at my coffee at Lequipe's Facebook post with 24 attackers asking who should go to Qatar :D

going for strong bpo for the first 60 with cummins and kuol subbed on the hour

------------------ryan--------------
-atkinson-souttar-rowles-king-
---------------devlin-irvine-------
-------------------hrustic----------
----boyle-------leckie-----behich

goodwin is another option if behich starts are lb

we probably should have brought in gersbach

Tchouameni(22) and Camavinga(19) are still very young and there's alot of expectations set on this french team. If we ever going to get a result against them this is our chance as we know they start slowly.

France squad is in

Goalkeepers: Lloris, Areola, Mandanda.

Defenders: Pavard, Kounde, Varane, Kimpembe, Saliba, L.Hernandez, T.Hernandez, Konate, Upamecano.

Midfielders: Rabiot, Tchouameni, Y.Fofana, Guendouzi, Veretout, Camavinga

Forwards: Coman, Mbappe, Benzema, Giroud, Griezmann, O.Dembele, Nkunku

Imagine front 3 of Mbappe, Benzema & Griezmann.😧 really hope L. Hernandez gets thumped, kicked, scratched as pay back for being a faking sook in 2018!

The Blues pretty much as expected, strong despite the known injuries and one of the favs but the whole Qatar playing experience may take them some time to settle in same applies to the Danes fingers crossed.
I think they will rest up Benzema maybe, a slight muscle tear that the Madrista are pissed he's ruling himself out of their last game having lost their last 3.
No matter that, a few good balls behind our backs and Mbappe will be there running onto to them :( Greizman will either clean up the chances saved or Giroud.
It just looks damn ugly BUT go our Roos put it in thats all we can ask.

That forward line with Benzema,Mbappe ,Griezmann Giroud and O Dembele looks scary so our defenders and mids will have their work cut out

Benzema wont play the first game apparently.

I'd go for a 5-5-0 formation.

Too ambitious for me

I think Arnie is going to play all three keepers at once against France :)

It's so crazy ... it just might work!! 

I doubt we'll go a back 3. Wingbacks give France the chance to get past them and then we'll have an extra there. Back 4 means the fullbacks will be deeper but they do push up regularly. I wonder if we'll see that interesting inner positioning by Behich again. It covered a fair bit of area that kept Peru locked up for periods. I'll be very surprised if it isn't this:

                        Ryan
   Karacic Wright Rowles Behich
                 Devlin Mooy
                      Irvine
      Leckie  Boyle  Goodwin

I'd rather 

                      Ryan
          Deng Souttar Rowles
Karacic      Irvine    Devlin        Behich
                        McGree
                 Boyle    Cummings    

I'd rather try this and find out the hard way than not. Mooy's passing is fine but I think a bit more tank in Irvine would be better for the start. If we can hold on, having a fresh Mooy, Kuol and even Leckie could work wonders near the end. I'D even go for broke and start Baccus over Irvine with the pure instruction to wreak havoc on their centre mid and disrupt as much as possible. He's got the fitness and speed.

Holy Shit, it’s literally next week. I don’t know why, but I haven’t been following the lead-up to this much, but I can’t believe a World Cup kicks off in a week. 

Boyle in camp already but missed first training session. Early days obviously but still not a great sign. Squad needs his energy up front 🤞

Tricky calls to make. Back 3 or 4? Deng had the skill, Wright the experience but I think Degenek maybe has that bit more big league experience.

Part of me thinks up front we should have a two of Duke and Leckie to have them press and disrupt to hell and if we can hang around until 60min then allow those better subs. Starting with the better players may see a rare goal chance converted. With VAR we need to shoot into the box like crazy as plenty of handballs occur. 

Tilio has been called in as a standby player 

For Boyle. Still time yet for Boyle to be considered fit for the second and third games. 

It's very exciting apart from fact it's in Qatar.

Nuknku is out of the tournament. 

Benzema has pulled up with pain in training today and had to end early. Reports fear he could miss the entire tournament now. This is more an escalation than exaggeration by many reports.

In our camp, Boyle and Hrustic are training individually. If they can forgo the first game ok but if they're listed past replacement deadline and don't feature at all it's two spots wasted. We're actually a bit thin in CM. 

Reports are postive about Souttar.