{"id":22411,"date":"2026-06-17T00:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/france-vs-senegal-fifa-world-cup-2026-live-score-kylian-mbappe-and-sadio-mane-headline-historic-world-cup-reunion-after-24-years\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T00:44:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:14:25","slug":"france-vs-senegal-fifa-world-cup-2026-live-score-kylian-mbappe-and-sadio-mane-headline-historic-world-cup-reunion-after-24-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/france-vs-senegal-fifa-world-cup-2026-live-score-kylian-mbappe-and-sadio-mane-headline-historic-world-cup-reunion-after-24-years\/","title":{"rendered":"France vs Senegal, FIFA World Cup 2026 Live Score: Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 and Sadio Man\u00e9 headline historic World Cup reunion after 24 years"},"content":{"rendered":"


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France have named a strong and attacking starting XI for their FIFA World Cup 2026 opener against Senegal, with Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 captaining a side packed with pace, creativity and technical quality in the final third.<\/p>\n

France XI: Mike Maignan; Dayot Upamecano, Jules Kound\u00e9, William Saliba, Lucas Hern\u00e1ndez; Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni, Adrien Rabiot; Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9, Michael Olise; Kylian Mbapp\u00e9.<\/p>\n

The lineup is set up in a 4-2-3-1 formation, with Tchouam\u00e9ni and Rabiot providing structure and defensive protection in midfield. Ahead of them, a highly technical attacking trio of Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, Dou\u00e9 and Olise will support Mbapp\u00e9, who leads the line as the central striker.<\/p>\n

France\u2019s approach blends balance and control with serious attacking threat, relying on speed in wide areas and Mbapp\u00e9\u2019s movement to stretch Senegal\u2019s defence. With a back four of Kound\u00e9, Upamecano, Saliba and Hern\u00e1ndez, France look well set to play on the front foot from the opening whistle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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France have named a strong and attacking starting XI for their FIFA World Cup 2026 opener against Senegal, with Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 captaining a side packed with pace, creativity and technical quality in the final third. France XI: Mike Maignan; Dayot Upamecano, Jules Kound\u00e9, William Saliba, Lucas Hern\u00e1ndez; Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni, Adrien Rabiot; Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}