When Olivier Giroud left the field after France's penultimate pre-Euro 2016 friendly in Nantes, sections of the crowd booed and chanted their support for Karim Benzema, Giroud's long-standing rival for a place at the point of the French attack (Benzema was overlooked for France's Euro 2016 squad because of his alleged role in the Mathieu Valbuena sextape scandal towards the end of last year).