Injured and on the bench since mid-August, the Chelsea midfielder will not be traveling to Qatar with the Blues after having surgery on Tuesday, the English club said.
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It is an absence of weight for the Blues. Chelsea midfielder N’Golo Kanté, injured in the hamstrings for several months, is out of the World Cup in Qatar (November 18-December 20). His club announced on Tuesday, October 18, that he had to be operated on and that he will have to observe a period of unavailability for a period of four months.
N’Golo Kanté came out with a hamstring injury on the second day of the Premier League against Tottenham on August 14. This is the second package for the French team after Boubacar Kamara (Aston Villa), injured in the knee.
An injury update on N’Golo Kante.
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The French midfielder had relapsed last week, as announced by his coach at Chelsea Graham Potter in a medical point before the match against Aston Villa on Friday October 14. “He has to see a specialist this weekend. It’s a relapse, it’s not good news, but I can’t tell you more at this stage. […] N’Golo had a reaction during training, so we are waiting for more information on that“he said.
Not spared by injuries for several seasons (groin injury, knee problems, muscle pain), N’Golo Kanté has not had many opportunities to wear the jersey of the France team on his last outings. . He has only played three international matches since the elimination of the Blues in the round of 16 of Euro 2021, the last against Denmark in the League of Nations in June. N’Golo Kanté had missed the last rally at Clairefontaine in September, and had left the previous one, in June, after feeling discomfort in his knee. He will now have to observe a period of absence of four months, informed Chelsea.
This season, he played only the first day of the Premier League in full with Chelsea, before leaving his side through injury during the second game for the Blues. With this package, Didier Deschamps loses one of his strong men in the midfield, essential during the success of the Blues in Russia in 2018. With the doubts around the state of form of Paul Pogba, the coach will have to compose a necessarily less experienced midfielder for the defense of the world title.