PARIS - Marseille striker Andre-Pierre Gignac has been rewarded for his early-season form with a call-up to Frances national team for matches against Portugal and Armenia.Gignac has scored eight goals in as many games to help Marseille to the top of the French league with six straight wins. Gignac, who was not part of Frances World Cup squad, has scored five in his past three matches.He interests me, France coach Didier Deschamps said Thursday. Its a question of having competition for places.Gignac has scored four goals in 17 appearances for France, and last played for the national team in a 0-0 draw against Georgia last September.Deschamps also recalled winger Dimitri Payet, Gignacs teammate, and Lyon right back Christophe Jallet.France hosts Portugal on Oct. 11 and plays in Armenia three days later.All are part of Group I in qualifying for the 2016 European Championship. But since France is already qualified as host, its matches dont count for points for either team.___FranceGoalkeepers: Hugo Lloris (Tottenham), Steve Mandanda (Marseille), Stephane Ruffier (Saint-Etienne)Defenders: Lucas Digne (Paris Saint-Germain), Patrice Evra (Juventus), Christophe Jallet (Lyon), Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal), Eliaquim Mangala (Manchester City), Jeremy Mathieu (Barcelona), Bacary Sagna (Manchester City), Raphael Varane (Real Madrid)Midfielders: Yohan Cabaye (Paris Saint-Germain), Blaise Matuidi (Paris Saint-Germain), Paul Pogba (Juventus), Morgan Schneiderlin (Southampton), Moussa Sissoko (Newcastle)Forwards: Karim Benzema (Real Madrid), Remy Cabella (Newcastle), Andre-Pierre Gignac (Marseille), Antoine Griezmann (Atletico Madrid), Dimitri Payet (Marseille), Loic Remy (Chelsea), Mathieu Valbuena (Dynamo Moscow) Packers Jerseys 2020 . -- Peyton Manning is the only player in this Super Bowl who has won the big game. Green Bay Packers Gear . 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Jontathan Bernier will make his fifth straight start for Toronto. Justin Peters will start for the Capitals. Toronto (11-8-3) has earned five points over its past three games, a vast improvement after drawing the ire of fans while being outscored 17-5 during a three-game slide. That losing streak included a 6-2 defeat at Buffalo on Nov. 15 before a 9-2 home loss against Nashville three days later - a dreadful performance that led one fan at Air Canada Centre to toss his Maple Leafs jersey on the ice. Coach Randy Carlyle believes things have picked up since then with Toronto scoring 12 goals in three games. Its a dramatic change, but you cant hide from the fact that what happened in our own building with the loss to Buffalo was pretty demoralizing to our group, he said. It put a lot of pressure on everybody involved. We responded with more of a workman-like attitude, but in this market you better be prepared to roll with the punches. The Leafs delivered a gutsy effort Wednesday, rallying twice before eventually falling 4-3 in overtime at Pittsburgh. However, the power play continues to be a concern after it failed on three chances to drop to 1 for 23 over the last six games. Carlyle is planning to make changes, but didnt go into specifics. When you make adjustments to power-play units, to top offensive units, you try to do it in the mindset that youre going to stimulate something a little different, he said.dddddddddddd Thats all were trying to do. We think there are options available to us. Leo Komarov could be one of those options after finding the net twice against the Penguins, giving the center three goals and an assist in the past two games. His four goals on the season match his total as a rookie from 2013-14. Toronto has dropped three of four meetings with Washington (10-8-4), but won 2-1 in a shootout on Nov. 23, 2013, in its only home matchup over that span. The Capitals, playing four of their next five on the road, are coming off a 3-1-1 stretch. They blew a two-goal first-period lead before doing the rest of the scoring in a 5-2 win over the visiting New York Islanders on Friday, two days after falling 3-2 in overtime in the opener of the home-and-home set. You go into this obviously looking for four points when you play someone, and we got three, coach Barry Trotz said. We gained a little ground, but importantly, we didnt lose any ground. Star right wing Alex Ovechkin has been helping with four goals in as many games, matching his total from the previous 15. He totaled three in the two meetings with the Islanders, including two on the road. Ovechkin has 27 goals and 22 assists in 33 career games against the Maple Leafs, including 16 and six, respectively, in 16 visits to Toronto. Nicklas Backstrom leads the Capitals with 22 points - one more than Ovechkin - after picking up six in the past four games. 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