Tim Vickery

It was just so easy for France to pass their way through them.

It was a beautiful exhibition by the French reserves and that strength in depth is staggering.

So that has given the coach a problem.

That was his last game before...

the World Cup squad is named, and he sees that his idea just isn't viable against the best opponents.

Now, they played Costa Rica on Monday night, and James didn't play first half.

And what they did first half was they gave Diaz a free roll.

So he could start on the left wing,

but he could come in and orchestrate the play, but he could also get up into the centre-forward position.

So that's one option, not even having Hamiz, or leaving him for the second half when the opponents get tired.

The way that they ended the game was with two holding midfielders and Hamiz in front of the two holders.

And from that position, Hamiz played a superb ball that gave Luis Suarez the chance to clinch the game with the last goal in a 3-1 win.

So you saw a couple of ideas there.

Different from the way that he'd been building his side beforehand.

So I think he might have to shuffle his pack.

I think the idea that he used for such a long time of...

Diaz a central striker and James I don't think he's going to be able to use that for he can use that for some of the games maybe against the weaker opponents perhaps but say Portugal the last game Portugal so good in midfield I think it's it that would be a huge huge risk to start the game like that so you know you build your side over years and years and years and then your last kind of rehearsal you think ah we need a rethink there so this is where the coach Nesta Lorenzo he's going to have to earn his money

Yeah, there's a fair few mistakes there, a fair few offences to be taken into consideration in my scouting career as well.

So many now get taken when they're 18.

It's really, in terms of like unknowns or lesser known players, I wonder, it's a player I've seen very little of, but an Ecuadorian called Arevalo, who's Spanish born and represented Spain, I think, at youth levels.