{"id":670718,"date":"2026-06-16T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=670718"},"modified":"2026-06-15T05:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T09:56:38","slug":"france-predicted-lineup-senegal-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/06\/16\/france-predicted-lineup-senegal-june\/","title":{"rendered":"France Predicted Lineup & Team News vs Senegal for June 16"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a France predicted lineup as they get their World Cup campaign started against a strong Senegal team. A disappointing defeat to the Ivory Coast in a friendly has raised some eyebrows around the current runners-up but Didier Deschamps still helms a team loaded with talent and the potential to go far in North America. We will discuss the latest team news, recent starters, and then try to predict the starting eleven based on those.<\/p>\n

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France Predicted Lineup & Team News vs Senegal<\/h2>\n

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France Team News<\/h3>\n

William Saliba missed training for a few days before this match but the latest from ESPN<\/a> is that he has been able to train one day before the match. There’s a chance the Arsenal man won’t start the tournament opener and instead come off the bench to ease him into the competition depending on what problem he’s dealing with.<\/p>\n

The rest of the squad is fit and ready to play which will be good news for Deschamps.<\/p>\n

France Recent Tactics & Starters<\/h3>\n

The French team play primarily in a 4-2-3-1 and while there was some experimentation through the European qualifiers, they started with what could be their preferred eleven against Northern Ireland. There, Mike Maignan was shielded by Jules Kounde, William Saliba, Dayot Upamecano, and Theo Hernandez.<\/p>\n

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Adrien Rabiot has had a career revival as he partners Aurelien Tchouameni in the pivot. The trio of Michael Olise, Ousmane Dembele, and Desire Doue played off Kylian Mbappe as the striker. The question mark over Saliba aside, this is likely their strongest eleven.<\/p>\n

France Predicted Lineup vs Senegal<\/h3>\n

GK – Mike Maignan<\/p>\n

LB – Theo Hernandez<\/p>\n

CB – Dayot Upamecano<\/p>\n

CB – Ibrahima Konate<\/p>\n

RB – Jules Kounde<\/p>\n

DM – Aurelien Tchouameni<\/p>\n

DM – Adrien Rabiot<\/p>\n

AM – Michael Olise<\/p>\n

AM – Desire Doue<\/p>\n

AM – Ousmane Dembele<\/p>\n

ST – Kylian Mbappe<\/p>\n

Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a France predicted lineup as they get their World Cup campaign started against a strong Senegal team. A disappointing defeat to the Ivory Coast in a friendly has raised some eyebrows around the current runners-up but Didier Deschamps still helms a team loaded with talent and the potential to go far in North […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":670907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,30,1831,2132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-football","category-news","category-starting-line-up","category-world-cup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670908,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670718\/revisions\/670908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}