Euro 2024: playing with a broken nose, “it’s possible”, assures a former Blues doctor

According to his entourage, Kylian Mbappé will be “apt” for the Euro match against the Netherlands on Friday despite his broken nose resulting from a violent encounter with the shoulder of an Austrian defender on Monday evening, a few minutes before the end of the opening match. Blues contender in the tournament. Playing with a broken nose “it’s possible”, confirms Tuesday June 18 on franceinfo Jean-Pierre Paclet, former doctor of the French football team.

Blues supporters are worried about Kylian Mbappé after seeing the impressive images of his bloody nose. The new Real Madrid striker has returned to the Blues base camp after medical examinations. The French Football Federation was reassuring. The operation is ruled out for the moment. A mask will be made to consider “a resumption of competition”.

“With appropriate protection, if he is physically capable and in particular from a respiratory point of view, if he is able to play the match, he does not risk serious injury,” says Jean-Pierre Paclet. We speak of a fracture even if there is no bone lesion. “It’s the nasal septum, a cartilage that is broken. There is then a lot of bleeding that occurs,” the doctor developed. It takes two to three days for the hematoma to resolve. “If the circulation in both nasal cavities goes well, we can play.”

“If the nose is still blocked by the hematoma, it’s like playing with a clothespin on the nose.”

Jean-Pierre Paclet, former doctor of the French football team

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At the 2002 World Cup in Japan, Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, the defender and captain of the Japanese national team, was forced to play with a face shield after fracturing his nose a few days before the competition. “So it’s possible.”assures Jean-Pierre Paclet.