Mathieu Valbuena admits that France are ambitious going into Euro 2012 and feel they can cause an upset at the tournament.
Laurent Blanc hopes to lead Les Bleus to a more successful tournament than their failure in the 2010 World Cup, and the Olympique de Marseille man has talked up his side s chances.
We want to rebuild the image of the France team, the attacker said.
We knew the World Cup was going to stick with us for quite some time.
We will show great things at the Euros. We are ambitious. There is quality in this group. Many things have changed.
Everybody is concentrating, focused on this objective to have a great tournament. We are not favourites, some nations are more advanced than us, but we are capable of causing an upset.
It was a poor 2011-12 campaign for Valbuena s club Marseile, who finished mid-table in Ligue 1, but the 27-year-old is confident that Didier Deschamps men can come back stronger next term.
Tenth place is not worthy of a club like OM. This will be my first year without the Champions League. We must say that it was an accident, he said.
There are many requirements for OM and next year we will show something better. It feels good that the campaign is over. I will not deny that it was time it ended. It was a disastrous season.
We tell ourselves that we must improve. I trust the board to give us a competitive team that can finish in the top three places in Ligue 1.
