Deschamps warns of Danish dangermen

France manager Didier Deschamps hopes his side learnt lessons from surprise Nations League defeats to Denmark ahead of today’s World Cup clash in Doha.

The reigning champions go into the encounter leading the way in Group D after kicking off their title defence with an emphatic 4-1 thrashing of Australia.

Yet Denmark, who began with a goalless draw against Tunisia, are bidding for a hat-trick of wins over Les Bleus, having already beaten them home and away this year.

“They are underestimated as a team,” Deschamps said.

“We are talking about a four-month period where they beat us twice and made life very difficult for us. We will have to make sure that’s not the case (this time).

“It is not a question of revenge because we know the Danish players and they know us. They can change system from one match to the other and that can give us different types of difficulties.”

Deschamps will be forced into at least one change to the starting XI which began against Australia as Bayern Munich defender Lucas Hernandez is out of the rest of the tournament with an anterior cruciate ligament injury.

His brother Theo Hernandez is expected to replace him, while Manchester United centreback Raphael Varane is fit to start but winger Kingsley Coman (hip) sat out Friday’s training session.

Denmark won 2-1 in Paris in June before defeating the world champions 2-0 in Copenhagen at the end of September.

Denmark midfielder Thomas Delaney will miss the remainder of the competition with a knee injury sustained in the stalemate with Tunisia.

In the other Group D game today Tunisia are up against Australia.