Euros resume with a reshuffled all-star cast

Euro 2020 qualifying resumes on Thursday with several of the biggest teams such as world champions France sporting a changed look for the new season, in some cases not by choice.

Less than a month into the new European season, France have been particularly hard hit by injuries ahead of home matches against Albania on Saturday and Andorra next Tuesday in Group H.

They will be without four members of their 2018 World Cup-winning squad -- Paul Pogba, N'Golo Kante, Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele -- as well as emerging stars Aymeric Laporte and Tanguy Ndombele.

Coach Didier Deschamps blamed football's "crazy schedules", saying he always expects to lose players, but this was exceptional.

"At one time it is one of them, at another time it is another," Deschamps said, before adding: "Now I'm not hiding from you that I have a lot of them at the same time and I could have done without that."
Spain, another team to have won all four games, take on Romania in Bucharest in Group F on Thursday. Moreno said he was worried his players "might think we think we are superior."