France is not going to give attention to any specific participant after they tackle England in a mouth-watering World Cup quarter-final on Saturday, defender Ibrahima Konate stated.
England have a powerful midfield and may depend on the in-form Harry Kane up entrance, however hazard can come from wherever and the defending champions is not going to obsess over the Tottenham Hotspur striker.
“Kane is a great player. I’ve played against him several times,” Liverpool centre again Konate informed a news convention on Wednesday.
“We have to look at the whole team, not just one player. If we play together, and stay compact we can do well. I would not target a single player.
“Soccer is not played with one, two or four players. We have to talk about the collective, how to mess with them collectively. It’s the coach’s job to show 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.
On the opposite hand, 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, nonetheless, doesn’t consider it’s a drawback for Les Bleus.
“We’re not dependent on Kylian. We just know that 80-90% of our goals will come from him as he can also deliver assists, and our job is to put him in the best conditions for that,” the Juventus participant, the one different French participant to attain in Qatar, stated.
Mbappe didn’t participate in Tuesday’s group coaching session, however the French federation stated he was doing restoration work on his personal, including that this was regular two days after a recreation.
“Yesterday was a short session, there is nothing to worry about, he was doing some work inside,” stated Konate.