Nicolas Lodeiro of Uruguay (L) is shown a red card by Referee Yuichi Nishimura during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Group A match between Uruguay and France at Green Point Stadium on June 11, 2010 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Quiz! Can you name the France line-up from the 2010 World Cup match against Uruguay?

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Three minutes on the clock, 14 players to guess.

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After the glory of 1998, 2002 was a damp squib for the French. Three games and not a single goal in Japan and South Korea as the holders’ curse begun in alarming fashion.

In 2010, they didn’t even have the excuse of being champions as a reason for them being appallingly bad. Les Bleus dazzled in 2006, perhaps should have won the final but for moment of Zinedine Zidane madness – though Zizou’s immediate retirement, with a brandish of that red card in Berlin extinguished some of the sparkle four years later.

This France side was a pale imitation of the one that came before. They would crash out of a group stage that most expected them to sail through and though they at least managed a goal this time around, they didn’t do too much more of note.

We don’t blame you if you don’t remember the French’s goalless opener against Uruguay from 2010 – can you guess all 14 players to feature in the game, though?

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