New-look France hope to get show on the road against Faroes

FRANCE take on the Faroe Islands desperate to reignite their 2006 World Cup campaign after Saturday’s opening night hiccup against Israel.

A work under construction is how coach Raymond Domenech describes the 1998 world champions but the one asset he sorely needs to carry out the regeneration, time, is missing.

This trip to the tiny fishing community in the North Atlantic between Scotland and Iceland population 46,672 would in years gone by have been regarded as easy pickings for a team that boasted such giants of the game as Zinedine Zidane, Marcel Desailly, Lilian Thuram and Bixente Lizarazu.