Julien Laurens
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Yeah, probably I think Gabriel and Marquinhos to start with.
As the two centre-backs, Bremer did OK, he scored that goal, but defensively I thought Brazil were not great.
When France had those moments of possession in the Brazil half, especially in the first half before the...
Before the Kylian goal and then as we saw on the Kylian goal, they lacked pace.
I mean, there's not many centre defenders anywhere who could match Kylian Mbappe for pace.
But still, you get the idea.
I don't think the 4-2-4 would work in a World Cup anyway.
I've been very sceptical from the beginning since Carlo Ancelotti tried to do it the first time round.
You can look at it and he probably misses Bruno Guimaraes as well in a game like that, maybe even Lucas Paqueta.
So there's other things he can do in midfield.
But that front four of Martinelli, Vini, Cunha and whoever the fourth one was, I'm not sure really worked.
Well, the story first came from France in a radio show that Frank and I know really, really well, where they mentioned the scan, the MRI on the wrong knee.
I think as we've explained on the show all week, pretty much, and
especially the balls you played, know exactly the process when you go for a scan like that.
An MRI, they put a call on your knee.
So it's not, you just don't go in your pants in a machine that scans the knee that is hurt.
There's actually a process to it.
And Kylian Mbappe would have said, hang on guys, it's the other one that is damaged.
I think the whole thing is,
The wrong MRI is not true, as Killian just said.