We dared not believe it but we will have to get used to the idea: Out injured from his first collective training with the Blues since the start of the rally, three days before the first match against Australia, Karim Benzema has undoubtedly left escape his last chance to win the World Cup. Muscularly affected, the Real Madrid striker could not finish the session he had started with the holders’ chasuble, and his condition obviously inspired enormous concern in the tricolor camp.
According to our colleagues from L’Crew, KB9 felt a sharp muscle pain in his left quadriceps, in a different area from the muscle discomfort that has been keeping us up at night for quite a while now. This happened during an opposition, after the media, authorized to watch the warm-up for a quarter of an hour, were asked to leave the Al Sadd stadium to let the group fine-tune the match against the “Socceroos”. “.
Deschamps has until Monday to call for reinforcements
If the Ballon d’Or has to undergo an MRI in the evening to find out the nature and severity of his injury, there is a strong (bad) chance that we will never see number 19 treading a lawn this winter in Qatar. His package could be announced in the coming hours by the FFF. News for which we had been feverishly preparing for several weeks, since the boy was unable to participate in any collective training with Real Madrid or with the Blues in recent days.
Eight years after his last and only participation, in Brazil, in 2014, we will probably never see Benzema again in the World Cup. And there, right away, we really want to destroy everything in our path… The pain is immense for the person concerned, no doubt, and it’s yet another blow for Deschamps, already deprived on the starting line of Pogba , Kante, Kimpembe and Nkunku. In the event of the Benz’s package for the World Cup, the coach has until Monday to call for reinforcements, the day before the entry into the running of the France team in the competition.