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France manager Zinedine Zidane has shut down suggestions that Warren Zaire-Emery could be the answer to the nation’s ongoing right-back crisis. Despite the teenager's successful stints in defense for Paris Saint-Germain, the legendary coach remains adamant that his future lies exclusively in the center of the pitch.

Zinedine Zidane, the France manager, has denied the existence of any tension in his relationship with Kylian Mbappé, the France captain and Real Madrid forward.

The defeat against Italy was not just a passing stumble in the French national team's calculations, but exposed numerous gaps that have returned doubts to Zinedine Zidane's calculations ahead of the decisive clash against Turkey. Between the return of Kylian Mbappé, the absence of Dayot Upamecano, and the decline in the performance of some key players, the French coach is preparing to rearrange his cards, with the possibility of making wide-ranging changes to the starting line-up in search of a strong reaction that restores prestige to "Les Bleus".

Although the French national team went into their meeting with Italy in the fifth round of the group stage of the UEFA Nations League with the ambition of securing top spot in Group One, they now find themselves in a position that could eliminate them from the continental tournament.