So far, the cold weather plan is going smoothly for Paris Saint-Germain. The day after a transfer window stamped with the seal of the loseduring which Paris will have lost three players to gain none, and after a mixed start to the year to say the least from the point of view of results (and the way), PSG have just learned that their striker Kylian Mbappé suffered from a thigh injury and will be out of action for three weeks.
Released on the 21st game Wednesday evening in Montpellier (3-1 win du PSG) after a shock with Léo Leroy, the son of former Parisian Jérôme Leroy, the kid from Bondy suffers “from a lesion of the left thigh at the level of the biceps femoris” according to the PSG press release published Thursday afternoon . The day before, at a press conference, after Wednesday’s Ligue 1 match in Montpellier (3-1). Christophe Galtier was however reassuring. “It’s a contusion or a hematoma, we don’t know yet. There is not too much concern, “he said, referring to” a blow behind the knee and on the muscle “. Well done, Sherlock.
A very weakened PSG with no real bench depth
So here is the player on the crutch for the next four games of PSG (Toulouse, Marseille, Monaco and Bayern Munich), at the very least. If Mbappé’s package has not been officially announced for the knockout round of the Champions League, it is difficult to see how he could be put back on his feet and physically ready for a match of such intensity.
The absence of the Frenchman for the C1 is a great loss for PSG, as the 24-year-old striker dominates the statistical tables this season: Mbappé is currently at the top of the ranking of scorers in European competition tied with Mohamed Salah (7 goals). In addition, the Parisian club, still in search of its first coronation in the Champions League, the ultimate objective of its Qatari owners, is currently already deprived, in defense, of Sergio Ramos (also released during the match in Montpellier), Presnel Kimpembe and Nordi Mukiele, while Neymar was preserved on Wednesday to recover from “muscular fatigue”.