France Out??

France seem all but out after an abysmal match against Mexico resulting in a 2-0 defeat. However they could go through depending on their result against South Africa and what happens between Mexico and Uruguay. However is their team even that good on paper. They seem to have glaring weaknesses in certain parts of their team. France have a serious lack of quality centre backs, Gallas being their best one. When you look at the '98 French team, they had Blanc and Desailly two of the greatest centre backs ever.

Playing Abidal at centre back has clearly been a huge mistake, he gave away the penalty and played Hernandez onside for his goal. He is not suited to playing there, though he has the physical gifts to enable him to, and was very bad. The whole team played badly and the players look to have a terrible attitude towards the national team and they should be utterly ashamed of themselves. They don't deserve to go through, and it is debatable whether they were deserved to even be there, and I hope that one of the other three teams go through.