The French team is preparing to take on a huge challenge in the semi-finals, against the German world champions.

George Eddy has also revealed what the X factors for Les Bleus will be in this match, and Victor Wembanyama is not necessarily one of them.

In the group stages, there was no match between Germany and France.

Dennis Schröder and his team won by 14 points, but the feeling gave the impression of a thirty-point gap between the two teams.

Suffice to say that Vincent Collet’s men will be keen to get revenge tonight, in addition to wanting to validate their qualification for the final of the Paris Olympic Games.

George Eddy gives his X factors for France against Germany
The good news is that Les Bleus are coming off a great performance against Canada that no one really expected.

Especially since Rudy Gobert and Evan Fournier started the game on the bench, while Victor Wembanyama was very clumsy in attack.

Interviewed by Sud Radio a few hours ago, legendary commentator George Eddy was keen to set the record straight:

It’s not just Wembanyama, because he may have had his worst game.

He only scored seven points in attack, he didn’t dominate in attack at all, he was present on the rebound with 12 rebounds and on the blocks, that’s already not bad. But the decisive players are players much less known than Victor Wembanyama.

It starts with Isaïa Cordinier who was inducted into the starting five, a stroke of genius by Vincent Collet who has been severely criticized until now.

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Cordinier had the game of his life, 22 points, his career record for Team France, he scored three-pointers early in the game to give the French team confidence. And next to him, we have two small center players, Yabusele and Lessort who totally crushed the Canadian center players.

They wore them down by scoring, by provoking a lot of fouls, especially Lessort.

With the Alien struggling offensively, the substitutes in the French racket did a monstrous job to overcome Dillon Brooks and his ilk, with Yabusele replacing Gobert in the starting five to perfection.

And for Eddy, their role could well be similar against the German world champions, especially since a big performance from them could greatly help Wembanyama:

It will take the same recipe to beat the Germans, even if they are bigger inside.

You have to go after them, attack them, provoke fouls, because players like Yabusele and Lessort are stars in the Euroleague, they are unstoppable and so we could think that they have to be as important, if not more important than Wembanyama.

But be careful, Wembanyama can wake up and maybe, if the German defense focuses more on Lessort and Yabusele, it will give Wembanyama a little more space to shine.

Guerschon Yabusele and Mathias Lessort were among the great architects of France’s victory against Canada.

George Eddy expects them to be at least as important against Germany, even more so than Victor Wembanyama.