Paris — Euro 2020 qualifying resumes on Thursday with several of the biggest teams, such as world champions France, sporting a changed look for the new season, in some cases not by choice.

Less than a month into the new European season, France have been particularly hard hit by injuries ahead of home matches against Albania on Saturday and Andorra next Tuesday in Group H. They will be without four members of their 2018 World Cup-winning squad — Paul Pogba, N’Golo Kante, Kylian Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele — as well as emerging stars Aymeric Laporte and Tanguy Ndombele...

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