France head coach Didier Deschamps has explained why Paul Pogba and N'Golo Kante were left out of the squad for the upcoming international break.
The two-time World Cup winners will do battle against the Republic of Ireland and Germany in the next two weeks, but they will do so without two of their senior members.
Pogba is fit after featuring for Juventus last week, but Deschamps feels he has not played enough minutes yet.
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