{"id":671060,"date":"2026-06-22T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=671060"},"modified":"2026-06-22T07:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T11:42:01","slug":"france-predicted-lineup-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/06\/22\/france-predicted-lineup-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"France Predicted Lineup vs Iraq for June 22 Group I"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a France predicted lineup for their World Cup clash with Iraq on Monday. The runners up in 2022 got off to a strong start against Senegal and will be aiming to get another good win here to move closer to winning the group anf gaining an advantageous draw in the knockout rounds. Any worries caused by a friendly defeat to the Ivory Coast will have been soothed by their opening performance in Group I.<\/p>\n

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

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France Team News<\/h3>\n

There is only one reported doubt<\/a> and that is key midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni. The Real Madrid man is part of the main double pivot with Adrien Rabiot but didn’t train before this one and is expected to miss out as a precaution.<\/p>\n

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The rest of the squad is presumed fit to play a part, including William Saliba who started against Senegal despite a back issue that kept him from training before the curtain raiser.<\/p>\n

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

Didier Deschamps sets up in a 4-2-3-1 system with four attack minded players being protected by a double pivot. The full-backs help overwhelm the opposition back line. In their first tournament outing, Mike Maignan started behind a back line of Jules Kounde, Dayot Upamecano, William Saliba, and Theo Hernandez. The pivot is the aforementioned duo of Tchouameni and Rabiot.<\/p>\n

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The attack squeezes in the exceptional talents of Michael Olise, Ousmane Dembele, Desire Doue, and Kylian Mbappen as the striker.<\/p>\n

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

GK – Mike Maignan<\/p>\n

RB – Jules Kounde<\/p>\n

CB – William Saliba<\/p>\n

CB – Dayot Upamecano<\/p>\n

LB – Theo Hernandez<\/p>\n

DM – Adrien Rabiot<\/p>\n

DM – Manu Kone<\/p>\n

AM – Michael Olise<\/p>\n

AM – Desire Doue<\/p>\n

AM – Ousmane Dembele<\/p>\n

ST – Kylian Mbappe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a France predicted lineup for their World Cup clash with Iraq on Monday. The runners up in 2022 got off to a strong start against Senegal and will be aiming to get another good win here to move closer to winning the group anf gaining an advantageous draw in the knockout rounds. Any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":649535,"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":[450],"class_list":["post-671060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-football","category-news","category-starting-line-up","category-world-cup","tag-france"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671060","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=671060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671161,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671060\/revisions\/671161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}