Konate does not want to betray his national team or his Liverpool team-mates

As the World Cup progresses and the surviving teams become fewer and fewer, it is evident that at some point several players will have to face their great teammates and friends at club level, making it very difficult for them to compete with each other for the chance to continue dreaming of the main objective of lifting the most important trophy at national team level.

For this edition of Qatar 2022, Ibrahima Konate, who is a Liverpool player and France defender, will have a very complicated task in the quarter-final round when he has to face his teammates Jordan Henderson and Trent Alexander-Arnold for a place in the semi-finals. Having lived with them for a long time on Merseyside, the French player finds it complicated to have to go through them to continue with his goal and extinguish his own.

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When questioned about who his favourite World Cup winner is, the Reds player was hesitant to answer, because while it is true that he wants to lift the trophy with France on 18 December, he also wants to see his team-mates triumph in Qatar. "I want to say France but then you're going to use that against us! It's difficult, there can be so many surprises. If I have to pick one, it will be France, or a team with Liverpool players."

While surprises in Qatar have been the order of the day, Konate's response may indeed generate some displeasure among French fans, as they surely expected their central defender to not hesitate for a second to say that they will be the champions of the competition, eradicating from the outset that possibility that anyone else could win it.

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From the heart of Liverpool, there is surely no clear favourite to lift the World Cup in 2022, as no matter which of Jurgen Klopp's players is crowned, the Reds stand to gain a lot from having a World Champion in their ranks, with six of the seven representatives still in with a chance of winning it, with the group ultimately narrowed down to France versus England, where only Ibrahima Konate or Jodan Henderson and Alexander-Arnold can advance to the semi-finals.