Left injured after a clash with Austrian defender Kevin Danso on Monday at the end of the match, the captain of the Blues is uncertain for the French team’s next matches.
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The diagnosis is confirmed by radiological examinations carried out at the Düsseldorf hospital. Kylian Mbappé suffers from a broken nose following the victory of the French team against Austria (1-0), Monday June 17, at Euro 2024. However, he avoids a passage on the table surgery, as confirmed by the team’s medical staff. No precise duration of his unavailability has been communicated for the moment, but the captain of the Blues is uncertain at least for the next match, Friday against the Netherlands.
“A mask will be made in such a way as to allow the number 10 of the French team to consider resuming competition after a period dedicated to treatment”, wrote the staff of the France team in a press release. The person concerned had fun with it on social networks. “Mask ideaswrote Kylian Mbappé on X (formerly Twitter).
Edouard Lipka, former doctor of the France team, remains cautious. “The next two matches are compromised. The fracture causes pain, but above all edema which prevents you from breathing well, and difficult nights which will worsen your state of fatigue”, he believes.
“His nose is not good at all. It’s the downside of this evening, even if it’s just a nose, it’s very annoying for us”, Didier Deschamps reacted on TF1 just after the meeting, refusing to comment before the results of the examinations taken at the hospital were communicated to him. Kylian Mbappé and the rest of the France team returned to their base camp in Paderborn overnight. More information will come in the coming days.
