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Julien Laurens

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Italy Eyes World Cup Qualification

Yeah, probably I think Gabriel and Marquinhos to start with.

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As the two centre-backs, Bremer did OK, he scored that goal, but defensively I thought Brazil were not great.

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When France had those moments of possession in the Brazil half, especially in the first half before the...

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Before the Kylian goal and then as we saw on the Kylian goal, they lacked pace.

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I mean, there's not many centre defenders anywhere who could match Kylian Mbappe for pace.

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But still, you get the idea.

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I don't think the 4-2-4 would work in a World Cup anyway.

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I've been very sceptical from the beginning since Carlo Ancelotti tried to do it the first time round.

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You can look at it and he probably misses Bruno Guimaraes as well in a game like that, maybe even Lucas Paqueta.

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So there's other things he can do in midfield.

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But that front four of Martinelli, Vini, Cunha and whoever the fourth one was, I'm not sure really worked.

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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.

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I think as we've explained on the show all week, pretty much, and

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especially the balls you played, know exactly the process when you go for a scan like that.

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An MRI, they put a call on your knee.

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So it's not, you just don't go in your pants in a machine that scans the knee that is hurt.

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There's actually a process to it.

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And Kylian Mbappe would have said, hang on guys, it's the other one that is damaged.

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I think the whole thing is,

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The wrong MRI is not true, as Killian just said.