Yeah that was a little surprising, although Luque is excellent. Mista was dropped also, coming off his best season ever with 20+ league goals. I guess Torres is the long term investment here.
In other news, the friendly match France - Brazil marking Brazilian FA's 100 anniversary ended goalless and seemed pretty uneventful. France was "without" Barthez, Thuram played 20 minutes as captain and our man Kapo came on for Zidane in the 2nd half. Trez played the full 90 minutes.