🔥 Cracker in prospect! Norway and France with line-ups confirmed | OneFootball

It’s time for the most anticipated showdown of the FIFA World Cup group stage.

Norway and France are set to face off shortly (4pm Brasília time).

The match will be played at Gillette Stadium in Boston.

And it is valid for the third and final round of Group I.

English referee Michael Oliver will be in charge.

TV Globo, SporTV, CazéTV and SBT will broadcast it. 

Group situation 📊

Both teams have six points.

But France are top thanks to a better goal difference — five to four.

In other words: a draw secures first place for Mbappé & Co.

And a clash with Sweden in the round of 32.

Norway will face Ivory Coast if they do indeed finish second.

The winner of that possible matchup will face, in the round of 16, whoever advances from Brazil versus Japan.

Norway 🇳🇴

Stale Solbakken is without Ryerson, Dortmund’s standout player, who has a thigh injury. 

And he made SEVERAL changes. 

Only Aursnes was kept from the team that started against Iraq.

No Haaland or Ødegaard in the starting XI. 

The lineup is: Selvik; Ostigard, Bjorkan and Falchener; Berg, Aursnes, Thorstvedt, Asgaard, Schjelderup and Bobb; Larsen. 

France 🇫🇷

The main change is in defense. Saliba was rested.

Which gives Lacroix a spot alongside Upamecano. 

Theo, Tchouaméni and Doué return to the starting lineup.

Assistant coach Guy Stéphan will lead the team, as Didier Deschamps returned to France after his mother’s death. 

Mbappé — with his 16 World Cup goals — is more than assured of his place. 

The lineup is: Maignan; Koundé, Upamecano, Lacroix and Theo Hernández; Koné and Tchouameni; Dembélé, Mbappé, Olise and Doué.

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