France won’t deal with any explicit participant after they tackle England in a mouth-watering World Cup quarter-final on Saturday, defender Ibrahima Konate mentioned.
England have a powerful midfield and might depend on the in-form Harry Kane up entrance, however hazard can come from wherever and the defending champions won’t obsess over the Tottenham Hotspur striker.
“Kane is a good participant. I’ve performed in opposition to him a number of instances,” Liverpool centre again Konate advised a information convention on Wednesday.
“We’ve to have a look at the entire workforce, not only one participant. If we play collectively, and keep compact we are able to do effectively. I might not goal a single participant.
“Soccer is just not performed with one, two or 4 gamers. We’ve to speak concerning the collective, the way to mess with them collectively. It’s the coach’s job to point out us what we don’t see.”
Konate’s perspective is all of the extra comprehensible on condition that eight totally different England gamers have scored a complete of 12 objectives of their first 4 video games. However, Kylian Mbappe has scored 5 of France’s 9 objectives with Olivier Giroud netting three, making the threats extra identifiable for England coach Gareth Southgate.
Midfielder Adrien Rabiot, nevertheless, doesn’t imagine it’s a drawback for Les Bleus.
“We’re not depending on Kylian. We simply know that 80-90% of our objectives will come from him as he also can ship assists, and our job is to place him in the most effective situations for that,” the Juventus participant, the one different French participant to attain in Qatar, mentioned.
Mbappe didn’t participate in Tuesday’s group coaching session, however the French federation mentioned he was doing restoration work on his personal, including that this was regular two days after a recreation.
“Yesterday was a brief session, there’s nothing to fret about, he was doing a little work inside,” mentioned Konate.