Ukraine v France – France line-up revealed, latest on Dembélé 🇫🇷

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·4 September 2025

Ukraine v France – France line-up revealed, latest on Dembélé 🇫🇷

This Friday, the French Team will play in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Ukraine at 20:45 at the Stadion Miejski. A match that involves 6 Paris Saint-Germain players. 5 on the French side: Lucas Chevalier, Lucas Hernandez, Désiré Doué, Ousmane Dembélé and Bradley Barcola. 1 on the Ukrainian side: Ilya Zabarnyi. L’Equipe announced this Thursday a probable team, with a forfeit shaping up for Dembélé.

« Ousmane Dembélé is not expected to start the match against Ukraine, Friday evening (20:45), in Wroclaw (Poland). As since the beginning of the gathering, the Parisian trained separately, this Wednesday, during the closed-door session at Clairefontaine, and could resume with the group, this Thursday, in Poland.

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As for Dembélé, a start indeed seems impossible. Even participation in the match would not be prudent, as he will have, at best, a group session. The French Team has enough solutions not to take risks and wait for the second match on Tuesday against Iceland. Not to mention, of course, the importance of the players' health.

As for the proposed team, it makes sense and we can think that it will be at least very close to the kickoff. Didier Deschamps has already confirmed the 4-2-3-1, we remain cautious about some choices in fierce competition. But seeing Barcola and Doué on the sides, as at PSG, makes sense.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.