Which players will Didier Deschamps be able to tick during the announcement? from the list of selected
for the World Cup in Qatar
, on November 9? This is the question that everyone is asking as the injured have accumulated in the infirmary in recent months. Koundé, Varane, Benzema, Pogba, Hernandez: several players are injured or reduced three weeks before the World Cup. So how are they? Can they hope to defend the colors of their country in Qatar? France Bleu takes stock.
Reassuring news from Koundé and Varane
Jules Koundetouched with Barcelona on Saturday, suffers only from a “muscle overload” according to his club, while Raphael Varane, in care at the Clairefontaine training center, assured to feel “much better”. The state of health of the two defenders, usual holders in the France team, is of great interest to the management of the Blues before the World Cup in Qatar.
Already injured in this same thigh at the beginning of the fall, Koundé had already been reassuring on Saturday evening with the DAZN platform, already evoking a “overload”. According to the Catalan press, the injury is nothing to worry about. more serious, Varane’s thigh injury
, which occurred a week ago, also seems to be moving in the right direction. The Manchester United defender, who will not play in a club again before the World Cup (November 20-December 18), gave news on social networks from the Clairefontaine training center, equipped with a federal medical center. “I feel much better” he wrote on Instagram.
Lucas Hernández (Bayern Munich) is himself in the recovery phase with his club after almost two months of absence due to an injury to the adductors. The situation seems to be improving for the Paris Saint-Germain defender Presnel Kimpembe who came into play during the Champions League game against Haifa
at the Parc des Princes.
Pogba preserves himself, his participation in the World Cup uncertain
The Blues midfielder Paul Pogba unlikely to play again for Juventus Turin before the World Cup-2022 said his coach Massimiliano Allegri on Friday. Due to a knee injury, the French player has not played for Juve since his return to Serie A this summer, and his club team has only five games left before the start of the tournament in Qatar. . Paul Pogba, however, took over “partially” collective training with Juventus.
But will Paul Pogba be selected? Nothing is certain. “The only thing that is certain is that I will not take a player who is not able to play at the start of the competition” Blues coach Didier Deschamps told AFP on Tuesday, hoping that Pogba “have playing time before the competition”because “he is in deficit compared to the others”. The anxiety is also very strong concerning Mike Maignan, the lining of goalkeeper Hugo Lloris in the cage, injured in a calf.
Karim Benzema treats a thigh problem, “no physical problem”
Karim Benzema, who is treating a thigh problem, did not play with Real Madrid for the reception of Girona this Sunday, October 30 in La Liga (Spanish championship, note) after already two games marked by his absence. The announcement had been made the day before by his coach Carlo Ancelotti, three weeks before the World Cup in Qatar. French, Golden Ball 2022
trained on Friday but “didn’t feel well” after the session, Ancelotti told a press conference, even though medical examinations did not show “no physical glitches”. On October 22, Real announced that Benzema was suffering from a “muscle fatigue in the quadriceps of the left leg“.
N’Golo Kanté package
The Blues recorded only one package for the momentbut not just any: that of the midfielder N’Golo Kante. He had hamstring surgery and is therefore unavailable for four months. The announcement did not surprise anyone, the world champion having only played the first two days of the Premier League (English championship, editor’s note) with his club before joining the infirmary. “I am sad for him. He is disappointed. He has had physical problems for the past two seasons. He relapsed after a muscle injury.”Didier Deschamps said in mid-October. “Not having N’Golo, it is one less force, by virtue of its energy, its experience. Humanly, he is such an endearing little man, who always has a smile (…) We will miss him”added the coach of the Blues.
Since the 2019/2020 season, the midfielder missed more than 60 matches for muscle or joint injuries, as well as two Covid-19 infections.