It is both the qualifier, the tournament! So, no matter what this League of Nations could be called as, but it is just not a friendly one. And for this reason, UEFA would be very upset. The squad has gone to a good level of lengths to build a claimant that would incentivize the players and the national teams to take the first batch of international play seriously. They want players to take this seriously after the World Cup. Though, we couldn’t speak for any players as well as the Chelsea players, but as of now we think that the gravity of the event is not there in teams yet. So, that will give American soccer Twitter enough to banter about.

On the opening day of the event Germany host France, which brought Antonio Rudiger, N’Golo Kante and Olivier Giroud together in Munich. Talk about the Rudiger, and then he began his international career around four years ago. It was the early qualifying rounds of Euro 2016. That time he had small appearances on the both sides of the World Cup 2014, however, he wasn’t able to make his competitive debut for Germany until the loss of 2-0 Poland that October.

In the next game Rudiger played and then two friendlies ahead of bouncing between the injuries and squad. The injury time of this player could barely have been worse. He then missed the second round of qualifier (Group stage). After this he came back to play five complete game friendlies one after one. Then, he tore his ACL and missed the tournament’s entirety as well as the World Cup qualifiers the first block.

Both the Kante and Giroud have done quite well, obviously for themselves in all the recent international play, this leave Ethan Ampadu as the only Chelsea player in action on Thursday.