Alexis Claude-Maurice seriously injured, also forfeit the Euro hopes



The Niçois Alexis Claude-Maurice evacuated on a stretcher, during the match against Strasbourg on Sunday evening – AFP

He suffers from a fractured fibula and will be operated on in the next few days. Nice midfielder Alexis Claude-Maurice, seriously injured in his fall following a tackle by Adrien Thomasson this Sunday during the Nice-Strasbourg match (0-2), will be forfeited for the Euro hopes and without doubt for the Olympics, announced the Riviera club on Monday.

The 22-year-old was evacuated on a stretcher in the 39th minute. At the final whistle, the Nice coach had confided his “impression that the injury was serious”. His player will be away from the field for several months.

“A heavy toll on injuries”

A man in good shape at the end of the year and author of four goals and five assists in 30 games played in the league, Alexis Claude-Maurice sees his season shortened as before his teammates Dante and Jeff Reine-Adelaide, both operated for the rupture of a cruciate ligament of the knee and Myziane Maolida (pubalgia).

“Another young Hopes arrested, was sorry this Sunday Adrian Ursea. We are definitely paying a heavy price for injuries ”.

Sylvain Ripoll, the coach of the Bleuets, who had already lost in the fall Jeff Reine-Adelaide, the captain of the Espoirs, will also have to do without Alexis Claude-Maurice for the European quarter-final France-Netherlands, on May 31 in Budapest.



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