France lineup vs Morocco: Predicted XI for World Cup 2026 quarter-final as Manu Kone stands ready to deputise

Continuing their quest to beryllium crowned champions for a 3rd time, France will meet Morocco in Thursday's opening World Cup 2026 quarter-final.

Five consecutive wins person taken Les Bleus backmost to Boston, wherever they bushed Norway during the radical phase, and caput manager Didier Deschamps is acceptable to sanction a acquainted starting XI.

Captain and talisman Kylian Mbappe scored his seventh extremity of the tourney to down Paraguay past clip out, and helium volition look to nett another against the Atlas Lions, arsenic an aggravated Golden Boot contention nears its climax.

Once again, Michael Olise, Bradley Barcola and Ballon D'Or victor Ousmane Dembele are acceptable to enactment their skipper up front, with Desire Doue and Rayan Cherki having to settee for substitute roles.

Mbappe's lawman Marcus Thuram has missed 3 games owed to a calf problem, but aft resuming afloat grooming the Inter Milan striker should beryllium named connected the bench.

After Aurelien Tchouameni was sidelined by a thigh wounded for the last-16 tie, it remains to beryllium seen if helium volition beryllium risked, with Manu Kone apt to spouse Deschamps favourite Adrien Rabiot instead.

Recently labelled Les Bleus' "best midfielder" by French fable Patrick Vieira, the Roma midfielder started against Paraguay and was a cardinal fig successful an aggravated conflict for supremacy.

As ever, Mike Maignan volition deterioration the gloves down a backmost 4 featuring Dayot Upamecano and William Saliba, positive Jules Kounde and Lucas Digne.

France imaginable starting lineup: Maignan; Kounde, Upamecano, Saliba, Digne; Kone, Rabiot; Dembele, Olise, Barcola; Mbappe

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