{"id":347605,"date":"2011-03-29T16:31:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T16:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/29\/france-coach-laurent-blanc-to-keep-unchanged-defence-for-croatia-friendly\/"},"modified":"2011-03-29T16:31:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T16:31:22","slug":"france-coach-laurent-blanc-to-keep-unchanged-defence-for-croatia-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/29\/france-coach-laurent-blanc-to-keep-unchanged-defence-for-croatia-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"France Coach Laurent Blanc To Keep Unchanged Defence For Croatia Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div> France coach Laurent Blanc has revealed he will keep the majority of the back line that shut out Luxembourg 2-0 in their Euro 2012 qualifier last week for the upcoming international friendly against Croatia.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old was expected to hand some fringe players like goalkeeper Steve Mandanda a start against the Croats on Tuesday but the Bleus tactician will stick with the same defence corps that got the job done in Luxembourg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just so we&#8217;re clear, Hugo Lloris will start tomorrow and I will not touch the central defence pairing of Philippe Mexes and Adil Rami,&#8221; Blanc said during a press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hugo needs as much playing time as possible to build a relationship based on trust with the defenders in front of him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blanc went on to state that he plans on using all the substitutions available to him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be entitled to make six substitutions in the friendly and it&#8217;s my intention to use all of them,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The match will kick off at 21:00 CET at the Stade de France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_1828-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/sports\/201103\/148765.php\" title=\"France Coach Laurent Blanc To Keep Unchanged Defence For Croatia Friendly\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">France Coach Laurent Blanc To Keep Unchanged Defence For Croatia Friendly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> France coach Laurent Blanc has revealed he will keep the majority of the back line that shut out Luxembourg 2-0 in their Euro 2012 qualifier last week for the upcoming international friendly against Croatia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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