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According to a report from Julien Laurens, Arsenal starters Olivier Giroud, Bacary Sagna, and Laurent Koscielny will all start for France in their Friday World Cup qualifier against Georgia. Here you are:
France XI to play tmrw: 442: Lloris- Sagna, Koscielny, Abidal, Evra - Valbuena, Guilavogui, Sissoko (or Kondogbia), Ribéry- Giroud, Benzema
— Julien Laurens (@LaurensJulien) September 5, 2013
They're playing against Georgia the country, not Georgia the state or Georgia the university that lost to Clemson in college football last weekend. I have to assume they should be able to win - Georgia have drawn against Finland and beaten Belarus, but other than that their qualifying campaign has been fruitless. France, on the other hand, have ten points of fifteen available, dropping points only in a loss and a draw both against Spain.
Hopefully Giroud can score three goals early and they can spend the rest of the match doing nothing, and not getting hurt. Please, please don't get hurt.