Starting line-up’s for France’s vital EURO 2008 qualifier against Ukraine at the Stade de France in Paris on Saturday.

Florent Malouda and Samir Nasri start for Raymond Domenech’s France team, with Thierry Henry just one of the big names missing for Les Bleus, Nicolas Anelka starts the match as the lone attacker.

Oleg Blokhin has omitted Chelsea’s Andriy Shevchenko for the vital qualifier, with Andriy Voronin the striker up-front for Ukraine.

France Team: Coupet, Abidal, Gallas, Thuram, Clerc, Toulalan, Makelele, Malouda, Nasri, Ribery, Anelka.

France Substitutes: Landreau, L. Diarra, Cissé, Gouvou, Squillaci, Diarra, Escudé.

Ukraine Team: Shovkovskyi, Nesmachnyi, Chygrynskyy, Rusol, Yeserskyy, Kalinichenko, Gay, Tymoschuk, Mykhalyk, Gusiev, Voronin.

Ukraine Substitutes: Startsev, Shelayev, Levchenko, Nazarenko, Rotan, Vorobey, Vaschuk.

Referee: Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain)