{"id":672214,"date":"2026-07-09T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=672214"},"modified":"2026-07-09T04:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T08:27:21","slug":"france-predicted-lineup-vs-morocco-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/09\/france-predicted-lineup-vs-morocco-july\/","title":{"rendered":"France Predicted Lineup vs Morocco for July 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a France predicted lineup for their World Cup Quarter-Final clash with Morocco on July 9. Les Bleus are looking to be firm favourites to take home the trophy with Argentina looking prone at the back and other giants playing less consistent football. That said, they still have to get the job done so we&#8217;ll be using the team news and recent tactical decisions to predict a starting XI.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/08\/world-cup-quarterfinal-prediction-france-vs-morocco\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">World Cup Quarterfinal Prediction: France vs Morocco<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>France Predicted Lineup &amp; Team News vs Morocco<\/h2>\n<p><iframe width=\"430\" height=\"335\" style=\"border: 0; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 0; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/live-odds.casinokings.com\/embed\/30217890\" scrolling=\"no\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>France Team News<\/h3>\n<p>The only major question mark for Didier Deschamps is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/theMadridZone\/status\/2074355277554696460\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aurelien Tchouameni<\/a>. The midfielder has been dealing with a small issue that ruled him out of the Paraguay clash and one of the group stage games. The manager didn&#8217;t rule the Real Madrid man out of this one but there are doubts over his ability to start and play the full 90.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/08\/world-cup-quarterfinal-prediction-spain-vs-belgium\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">World Cup Quarterfinal Prediction: Spain vs Belgium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The national team won&#8217;t be sweating this one as they have a very capable backup in Manu Kone.<\/p>\n<h3>France Recent Tactics &amp; Starters<\/h3>\n<p>Les Bleus set up in a 4-2-3-1 with a consistent starting set emerging, with Mike Maignan the guaranteed starter between the sticks. The preferred back four is Jules Kounde, William Saliba, Dayot Upamecano, and Lucas Digne pipping Theo Hernandez in the left back role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"max-width: 600px\"><smartframe-embed class=\"smartframe_wp_element\" customer-id=\"b0c95bc04383cef69c6b47df872135cf\" image-id=\"WmOBxS31QTk3\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 6240px; aspect-ratio: 6240\/4160;\" ><\/smartframe-embed><\/p>\n<p>Injuries have forced changes in the pivot where Adrien Rabiot and Tchouameni started the tournament, but Kone has been partnering Rabiot in the absence of the Los Blancos&#8217; man.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/07\/07\/argentina-engineer-stunning-comeback-to-beat-egypt-in-the-world-cup-last-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Argentina Engineer Stunning Comeback To Beat Egypt in The World Cup Last 16<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Up front Ousmane Dembele, Micheal Olise, and Kylian Mbappe have started every outing, Desire Doue started as the fourth option up front but has missed out for Bradley Barcola in the last two with the Paris Saint-Germain players switching out for one another.<\/p>\n<h3>France Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n<p>GK &#8211; Mike Maignan<\/p>\n<p>RB &#8211; Jules Kounde<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; Dayot Upamecano<\/p>\n<p>CB &#8211; William Saliba<\/p>\n<p>LB &#8211; Lucas Digne<\/p>\n<p>DM &#8211; Manu Kone<\/p>\n<p>DM &#8211; Adrien Rabiot<\/p>\n<p>AM &#8211; Ousmane Dembele<\/p>\n<p>AM &#8211; Michael Olise<\/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>IMAGO \/ Sportimage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a France predicted lineup for their World Cup Quarter-Final clash with Morocco on July 9. Les Bleus are looking to be firm favourites to take home the trophy with Argentina looking prone at the back and other giants playing less consistent football. That said, they still have to get the job done so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":659993,"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":[161,1831,2132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-football","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\/672214","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=672214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672261,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672214\/revisions\/672261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}