
France, one of the favorites to win the World Cup, debuts this Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. against Senegal. The match will be played at MetLife Stadium in New York, the same one that will host the final of the tournament on July 19. The meeting will kick off Group I, which also includes Iraq and Norway, who will face each other tonight at 00:00. who is asked for more defensive involvement. It remains to be seen how Didier Deschamps will fit in with France’s four offensive references: . France comes from defeating Northern Ireland (3-1) in a friendly match and from a setback against Ivory Coast (1-2). Senegal, for its part, arrives undefeated in the African qualification for the World Cup. The only meeting between the two teams ended with a 1-0 in favor of the Africans in the 2002 World Cup in South Korea and Japan.