{"id":897086,"date":"2026-04-05T09:21:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/mbappe-continues-quest-for-french-record-predicted-france-lineup-vs-colombia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:21:53","slug":"mbappe-continues-quest-for-french-record-predicted-france-lineup-vs-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/mbappe-continues-quest-for-french-record-predicted-france-lineup-vs-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbappe continues quest for French record. Predicted France lineup vs. Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Warming up for this summer’s\u00a0World Cup<\/strong><\/a>, two-time winners France<\/a> will continue their preparations on Sunday evening, when they meet Colombia<\/a> in Washington DC.<\/p>\n

Completing a brief US tour, Les Bleus will be fresh from beating Brazil<\/strong><\/a>, with Kylian Mbappe<\/a> having taken one step closer to claiming a coveted national team record.<\/p>\n

The Real Madrid striker’s deft finish against the Selecao saw him move onto 56 international goals – just one shy of Olivier Giroud’s all-time benchmark – so he may be keen to start again.<\/p>\n

Selecting the French captain’s support cast must cause Didier Deschamps<\/a> a headache, and the departing head coach<\/strong><\/a> may opt to make changes after his team’s 2-1 victory in Boston.<\/p>\n

Amid an injury-afflicted campaign, Ballon d’Or winner\u00a0Ousmane Dembele<\/a>\u00a0could possibly be rested,\u00a0allowing Manchester City’s Rayan Cherki to share creative duties with Bayern Munich star\u00a0Michael Olise.<\/p>\n

As his Paris-Saint Germain teammate Bradley Barcola is injured, Desire Doue must vie with Hugo Ekitike to start on the left flank, after the latter scored Les Bleus’ second goal against Brazil.<\/p>\n

In addition to Barcola, France are missing several potential starters this week: Roma midfielder Manu Kone, Al-Nassr’s Kingsley Coman, plus defensive duo Jules Kounde and William Saliba.<\/p>\n

Deschamps could promote Maxence Lacroix and veteran vice-captain N’Golo Kante from the bench, though the sheer strength of his squad means that most of the 25 men initially selected are in serious contention.<\/p>\n

France possible starting lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maignan; Kalulu, Konate, Lacroix, Digne; Kante, Rabiot; Olise, Cherki, Ekitike; Mbappe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Michele Lanz
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Warming up for this summer’s\u00a0 World Cup , two-time winners France will continue their preparations on Sunday evening, when they meet Colombia in Washington DC. Completing a brief US tour, Les Bleus will be fresh from beating Brazil , with Kylian Mbappe having taken one step closer to claiming a coveted national team record. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":897087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22823,33512],"tags":[5756,72634],"class_list":{"0":"post-897086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-continues","8":"category-mbappe","9":"tag-continues","10":"tag-mbappe"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}