After the 2016 European final loss to Portugal on home soil, France will be looking to go one better when they kick off their World Cup campaign in Russia against Australia on Sunday.
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Les Blues led by one time Didier Deschamps who led France to World Cup glory at the 1998 World Cup will be looking to repeat the feat away from home.
France, one of the favourites coming into this tournament boast of a array of fine players. This was made evident with the list of dropped players that will walk into any other team easily, the likes of Karim Benzema, Alexandre Lacazette, Anthony Martial, Adrien Rabiot, just to mention a few.
Deschamps would be having a headachr in selecting his front three with reports suggesting he might go for youthfulness against experience by starting Ousmane Dembele and Kylian Mbappe to partner Antoine Griezman upfront.
Australia led by their evergreen horse, Tim Cahill will want to do better than their previous best of a knockout stage in 2006 where they were knocked out by eventual champions, Italy.
Cahill has scored 5 of Australia's 11 World Cup goals in the, that's about 45 percent and will be looking to join the ranks of players to have scored I four different World Cup tournaments.
The only injury scare may come from France with Djibril Sidibe and Samuel Umtiti having little injury concerns ahead of kick-off but Australia seem to be all fit and ready.
MY PREDICTION
France will be parading a star studded team and if they can keep their heads together to play as a team, they will be unstoppable. France should win this, maybe not easily but perhaps, we should see enough goals.
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