Paraguay and France have named their beginning sides for his or her World Cup 2026 last-16 assembly in Philadelphia on Saturday.
Didier Deschamps’ aspect have gained all 4 of their matches on the finals, beating Senegal 3-1, Iraq 3-0 and Norway 4-1 throughout the group stage earlier than cruising past Sweden 3-0 within the first knockout spherical.
La Albirroja recorded a significant upset by beating Germany on penalties following a 1-1 draw within the final 32, having taken 4 factors to complete as probably the greatest third-placed groups throughout the group stage.
The winners of the tie will meet Morocco within the quarter-finals in Boston on Thursday (21:00 BST), adopted by a possible semi-final towards Portugal, Spain, the USA or Belgium in Dallas on July 14 (20:00).
Dernière séance à haute intensité pour nos gardiens avant le Paraguay 🧤🔥 pic.twitter.com/Fh9yqvg3Eb
— Equipe de France ⭐⭐ (@equipedefrance) July 4, 2026
World Cup 2026: Paraguay confirmed workforce vs France
Diego Gomez returns from suspension as considered one of three new faces in Paraguay’s line-up alongside Gustavo Velazquez and Omar Alderete.
Jose Canale, Damian Bobadilla and Gabriel Avalos transfer to the bench.
Paraguay beginning XI: Orlando Gill, Gustavo Velazquez, Omar Alderete, Juan Jose Caceres, Junior Alonso, Gustavo Gomez, Diego Gomez, Miguel Almiron, Andres Cubas, Matias Galarza, Julio Enciso
Paraguay substitutes: Gatito Fernandez, Gaston Olveira, Fabian Balbuena, Jose Canale, Alexandro Maidana, Ramon Sosa, Mauricio, Damian Bobadilla, Braian Ojeda, Gustavo Caballero, Antonio Sanabria, Alejandro Romero Gamarra, Alex Arce, Gabriel Avalos, Isidro Pitta
World Cup 2026: France full line up vs Paraguay
Manu Kone replaces Aurelien Tchouameni, who has a groin subject, in France’s one change from their dismantling of Blagult.
France beginning XI: Mike Maignan, Lucas Digne, Dayot Upamecano, Jules Kounde, William Saliba, Manu Kone, Adrien Rabiot, Ousmane Dembele, Kylian Mbappe, Michael Olise, Bradley Barcola
France substitutes: Brice Samba, Robin Risser, Malo Gusto, Ibrahima Konate, Theo Hernandez, Lucas Hernandez, Maxence Lacroix, Aurelien Tchouameni, Ngolo Kante, Warren Zaire-Emery, Rayan Cherki, Maghnes Akliouche, Marcus Thuram, Want Doue, Jean-Philippe Mateta
The place to look at Paraguay vs France: TV channel, on-line reside stream
Kick-off on Saturday is at 22:00 BST (17:00 ET / 14:00 PT). Within the UK, reside TV protection is on BBC One.
Streaming on an unlimited vary of units is offered by way of the BBC iPlayer app and BBC Sport web site.
World Cup 2026: Paraguay vs France stats
- Les Bleus are the highest-scoring workforce on the finals, with 12 objectives, and have netted at the very least thrice in every of their final 4 World Cup matches
- Kylian Mbappe has six objectives in 4 appearances on the event, placing the Actual Madrid striker one behind prime scorer Lionel Messi, having contributed two extra assists than the Arentina captain
- Michael Olise has 5 assists and is one away from matching Pele’s World Cup report of six at a single event
- France have gained 15 of their 18 World Cup matches because the begin of the 2018 event
- Didier Deschamps has recorded 18 World Cup victories as a supervisor, which is essentially the most in event historical past
- Now 57, Deschamps was captain when France beat Paraguay within the final 16 on their option to glory on residence soil on the 1998 finals, profitable 1-0 by way of a 113th-minute Laurent Blanc objective
- Paraguay had solely progressed from a World Cup knockout tie as soon as beforehand, profitable 5-3 on penalties towards Japan within the 2010 final 16
- La Albirroja have misplaced considered one of their 4 matches on the World Cup 2026 however haven’t overwhelmed France in 5 earlier conferences (D2 L3), shedding each such matches on the World Cup
- They haven’t scored greater than as soon as in any of their final seven matches on the World Cup
- With 33 objectives in 31 World Cup matches (1.1 per sport), Paraguay have the bottom common of any nation to have performed at the very least 30 matches on the finals aside from South Korea (41 in 41).
- Julio Enciso’s opener towards Germany was Paraguay’s first-ever objective within the knockout stage of the finals, having failed to attain of their 5 earlier such ties
