{"id":671451,"date":"2026-06-26T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=671451"},"modified":"2026-06-26T05:45:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T09:45:05","slug":"france-predicted-lineup-norway-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/06\/26\/france-predicted-lineup-norway-june\/","title":{"rendered":"France Predicted Lineup vs Norway for June 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Final group stage game of Group I sees the two perfect teams go head to head. In this France predicted lineup we will be looking at the most recent team news and how we expect Didier Deschamps to set up to contend with Norway&#8217;s main threat, one Erling Haaland. This is sure to be a blockbuster group clash so be sure to check it out.<\/p>\n<h2>France Predicted Lineup &amp; Team News vs Norway<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 600px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOB48eoegkP\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 3686px; aspect-ratio: 3686\/2457;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<h3>France Team News<\/h3>\n<p>William Saliba entered this tournament dealing with an injury and with their current state of strength, Les Bleus have opted to rest him, as it&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/goalsside\/status\/2070225995051741297\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> been confirmed<\/a> that the Arsenal defender will miss this one. Most likely, it is offering him a brief rest before the knockout stages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/06\/26\/a-strong-world-cup-start-for-the-usa-and-other-lessons-from-world-cup-groups-d-f\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">A Strong World Cup Start for The USA and Other Lessons from World Cup Groups D-F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marcus Thuram is also a doubt having suffered a calf problem despite not playing much.<\/p>\n<h3>France Recent Tactics &amp; Starters<\/h3>\n<p>The team set up in a 4-2-3-1 system with Mike Maignan the starting goalkeeper. Jules Kounde, Dayot Upamecano, and William Saliba have had spots in the back four with the only change coming on the left where Theo Hernandez was replaced by Lucas Digne for the Iraq fixture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/06\/25\/perfection-from-mexico-and-other-lessons-from-world-cup-groups-a-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Perfection From Mexico and Other Lessons From World Cup Groups A-C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manu Kone partnered Adrien Rabiot in the pivot due to an injury to regular starter Aurelien Tchouameni who is expected to be back.<\/p>\n<p>The attacking four has seen Kylian Mbappe, Michale Olise, and Ousmane Dembele start both outings with Desire Doue and Bradley Barcola switching for one another.<\/p>\n<h3>France Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>GK &#8211; Mike Maignan<\/p>\n<p>LB &#8211; Theo Hernandez<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Maxence Lacroix<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Dayot Upamecano<\/p>\n<p>RB &#8211; Malo Gusto<\/p>\n<p>DM &#8211; Aurelien Tchouameni<\/p>\n<p>DM &#8211; Adrien Rabiot<\/p>\n<p>AM &#8211; Desire Doue<\/p>\n<p>AM &#8211; Ousmane Dembele<\/p>\n<p>AM &#8211; Bradley Barcola<\/p>\n<p>ST &#8211; Kylian Mbappe<\/p>\n<p><strong>Featured Image Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Final group stage game of Group I sees the two perfect teams go head to head. In this France predicted lineup we will be looking at the most recent team news and how we expect Didier Deschamps to set up to contend with Norway&#8217;s main threat, one Erling Haaland. This is sure to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":671453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_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":[161,30,2132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-football","category-news","category-world-cup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671451","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=671451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671454,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671451\/revisions\/671454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}