While Joe Hart is consigned to a watching brief in England's friendly against France, opposite number Hugo Lloris will captain Les Bleus just four days after a costly gaffe against Sweden.
Hart has not been dropped by Gareth Southgate, who had always planned on using the friendly at Stade de France to give chances to Tom Heaton and Jack Butland, but his rivals have at least been given a high-profile chance to stake their own claims.
Tottenham No. 1 Lloris might have expected to cede his spot to Bordeaux's Benoit Costil on the same grounds after he conceded an embarrassing last-minute winner from 50 yards in Stockholm, the result of a rash sprint from his box, a poor clearance and a brilliant piece of opportunism from Ola Toivonen.