Kylian Mbappe leads stacked France attack with insane record this season

For their first release of 2025, the Blues of Kylian Mbappé and Ousmane Dembélé faced Croatia on Thursday at 8:45 p.m. in Split. They will find the same opponents, in the return match, on Sunday at the Stade de France.

A little over a year from the 2026 World Championship, Didier Deschamps, who tries to find the recipe in attack, has his best offensive options against Croatia on Thursday, in quarterfinals of the League of Nations.

How to make the Mbappé-Dembélé duo work in Les Bleus?

To be honest, the offensive plot of the Selection of France was scary. Antoine Griezmann would not be there, but he would not be aware Didier Deschamps of the six 'monsters' he had on his staff: Kylian Mbappé, Ousmane Dembelé, Michael Olise, Randal Kolo Muani, Bradley Barcola and Désiré Doué. And that Marcus Thuram fell off the list for some inconveniences on his left ankle. A fearsome attack, extremely complete and very, very, well, scorer. And…

For its first game of the year, the French team moves to Croatia on Thursday for the quarter-final go of the League of Nations. This is the first game of Kylian Mbappé after six months of absence with the blue jersey.

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