5) How was France’s bench strength?
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With Dimitri Payet, Olivier Giroud and N’Golo Kante rested, the focus was on some of France’s benchwarmers to see how capable they were of performing on the competitive stage.
Yohan Cabaye, Andre-Pierre Gignac, Moussa Sissoko and Kingsley Coman were given starts by Deschamps for what was, in some ways, a dead rubber for them.
Cabaye and Sissoko were solid and confident moving the ball around in midfield, while Kingsley Coman had a busy 60 minutes, looking to exploit his fleet-footedness to waltz past the Swiss defenders.
Andre-Pierre Gignac, however, couldn’t get himself involved in the game much as he was well marshalled by Fabian Schar. Deschamps can feel reasonably pleased and assured that he has a strong bench to look up to in the event of any injuries or suspensions to his first-team personnel.
