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Hello and welcome to live coverage of Luxembourg vs France.

World Cup Qualification UEFA / Matchday 5
Stade Josy Barthel / 25.03.2017
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Updated 25/03/2017 at 21:43 GMT


19:30
France are currently in second place, with three wins from four.
19:25
France are actually in a very tough qualification group. They have the Netherlands and Sweden in the group as well, and the rest of the group is made up by Luxembourg, Bulgaria and Belarus. That's more awkward than you'd like.
19:20
Luxembourgish is a Germanic language spoken by about 400,000 people in Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg), France (Frankräich), Belgium (Belsch) and Germany (Däitschland). There are also a few Luxembourgish speakers in the USA.
19:15
But now, the problems. Olivier Giroud, a serial misser, starts up front for France. Laurent Koscielny is an underrated liability in defence. Is that a problem? No, they're playing Luxembourg.
19:10
There's a debut for Mendy on the left side of defence for France. France have never really replaced the Winston Churchill of French football, Patrice Evra, and they need to do so as he finally approaches not being quite as world class as he has been for the past 20 years.
19:05
TEAMS: Luxembourg: Moris, Jans, Chanot, Martins, Malget, Mutsch, Gerson, Philipps, Da Mota, Bensi, Joachim. /// France: Lloris, Mendy, Umtiti, Koscielny, Sidibe, Kante, Matuidi, Payet, Griezmann, Dembele, Giroud.