France take on South Africa on Tuesday night in Lille for a friendly as other national teams battle for a place in the World Cup in Qatar at the end of the year.
Head coach Didier Deschamps is likely to send out a side shorn of familiar names such as Hugo Lloris, Raphael Varane and Karim Benzema who are missing through injury or - in the case of Lloris - to allow some game time to his goalkeeping bnack-up.