France may need to change their usual slow-burn approach to tournaments at Euro 2020, but with the unexpected inclusion of Karim Benzema in the squad, the world champions have what it takes to go all the way.
"Playing against Germany in Munich, we know what to expect. We'll have to be at our very best from the start," said coach Didier Deschamps. A blackmail scandal - over which Benzema faces trial in October - and his 2016 comment that Deschamps had"bowed to the pressure of a racist part of France" when leaving the player, a Muslim of Algerian descent, out of the European Championship squad that year had put his international career into a deep freeze.
"I'm not going to complain that I have a lot of choices," said Deschamps, who also has the likes of Ousmane Dembele, Kingsley Coman, Marcus Thuram and Wissam Ben Yedder at his disposal.
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