The players of Didier Deschamps inherited a difficult group B. Only the first two places offer a ticket for Germany, from June 14 to July 14.
Le Monde with AFP
After the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Euro 2024 football will quickly be loomed, with scheduled playoffs from March to November 2023. The French team will face, in group B, the Netherlands, the Ireland, Greece and Gibraltar, determined the draw, Sunday October 9 in Frankfurt (Germany).
Poured into hat 2 after his bad results in the Nations League (1 victory in six games), the Blues therefore inherited, with the Dutch selection, with a big piece on the road which must lead France in Germany From June 14 to July 14. The Oranje of Virgil van Dijk and Memphis Depay are the European team in the form of recent months.
We also find in this group B of the playoffs Ireland, a bad memory of the French team which had hardly defeated Eire in 2009 on the road to the 2010 World Cup with the help of a gross hand of Thierry Henry, and Greece, 2004 European champion having beaten France by Zinedine Zidane in quarters. Finally, the draw has reserved an unprecedented opponent for the French team: the modest team of Gibraltar, which the Blues have never faced.
The first two qualifying places
Among the other groups, the most raised (group C) associates Italy and England, revenge of the Euro final won by the Nazionale in Wembley in 2021, as well as Ukraine. Russia has not been invited to the draw due to the war in Ukraine. Group A is made up of Spain, Scotland and Norway from the Erling Haaland nugget. And group D, very dense, includes Croatia, vice-champion of the world, Wales and Turkey.
The players of coach Didier Deschamps-but will he still be after the World Cup in Qatar? – must finish in one of the first two places in the group to validate their ticket for Euro 2024. A goal within their reach if France does not commit a misstep against Greece or Ireland.
And even in such cases, the Blues would have a second chance: three tickets will be distributed during the two -round dams in March 2024, in which twelve nations will participate on the basis of their ranking in the League of Nations. And the positioning of the Blues in League A (First Division) practically represents them.