He recently announced that he was joining Real Madrid-Kilian McBarbie and is focused on preparing France for the European nations. In the early hours of Thursday morning (6), he showed Frankenstein's explosive form in the warm-up, delivering three one-shot, two-pass goals to lead France to a 3-0 home win over Luxembourg, surpassing the legendary two-assist record of Staines and Henry. After the match, leader Diegans praised France's 'fantastic leader'.
France's first strike in the summer warm-up, McBarbie turned to Real Madrid popularity, performance is very active. Early left pass Kishavin shot to the post, McBarbie left hit the baseline pass 43 minutes, Goloumeanyi top into; the second half continued to play with McBarbie, 70 minutes to assist Jonafin Karaos blasted into the world wave. Five minutes before the end of the game, he received a pass from Bagona and created three individual goals.
After handing out two assists in this game, McBarbie racked up 28 assists for the Nationals, surpassing both Schiedam and Henry (26 per game) and moving into second place on the all-time assists list behind 30 assists. Deegans said after the game, "Fantastic McBarbie leader! His body isn't used to playing so little time at Paris Saint-Germain this season, so he's trying to do everything he can to fill it."
Digance was also pleased with France's form: "This department is very well rehearsed, I will be excited, some positions need to be readjusted, I have a variety of attacks above." On the 249th day of his 37th year, striker Chiote became the oldest player in France's history. As their final warm-up game before finals week, France will face Canada in the early hours of Monday (10).
