Nigeria Could Face France Exactly Four Years After Battle Of Brasília, Deschamps Reacts

1998 world champions France are expected to top Group C of the 2018 World Cup based on permutation and current form and there is a possibility that the European powerhouse could face Nigeria in the last sixteen.

Manager of The Blues, Didier Deschamps, clearly wants to avoid meeting the Argentinian team in the next round, which more or less suggests that he's looking forward to a rematch with the Super Eagles, or the possibility of facing either Croatia or Iceland.

''I know which group can concern us for the rest of us, we will not be able to avoid Argentina all the time, but already we have to go out first, if it is not Argentina in the last sixteen, then it will be in quarters.

''In the World Cup you have to meet the strongest at one time or another, Spain, Germany, Brazil will probably be there, " Didier Deschamps told TMC(TV Channel).

On June 30, 2014, the Nigerian defense could not be breached by the French team, which paraded the likes of Karim Benzema, Olivier Giroud and Antoine Griezmann, until the 79th minute when Manchester United's Paul Pogba opened the scoring and only after Eddy Onazi had left the Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, Brasília pitch due to injury.

The winners of Group C will meet the runners-up Group D at the Kazan Arena, Kazan on June 30, 2018.

Ifeanyi Emmanuel

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