Martial and Lacazette miss out as Deschamps names French World Cup squad
Manchester United forward Anthony Martial and Arsenal striker Alex andre Lacazette have both been left out of France’ s World Cup squad.
The Premier League pair were not in the 23- man group announced by coach Didier Deschamps last night. Instead they were included on an 11- strong standby list for the tournament in Russia.
Les B le us have a wealth of attacking options, with the likes of Antoine Griezmann, Kylian Mbappe, Ousmane Dembele and Chelsea’s Olivier Giroud named in the squad.
Marseille’s former West Ham midfielder Dimitri Payet was another big name to miss out. He went off injured in Marse ille’ s Europa League final defeat by Atletico Madrid on Wednesday night. Giroud’ s Chelsea team-mate N’ Go lo Kante has also been included, while Tottenham goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, Manchester City left-back Benjamin Mendy, who has spent the majority of the season out injured with a cruciate ligament rupture, and United midfielder Paul Pogba are the other Englandbased players in the party.
France start their World Cup campaign against Australia on 16 June, with Peru and Denmark the other teams in their group.