The young midfielder of the Blues and Paris SG, Warren Zaire-Emery, injured on Saturday evening in an ankle during the match against Gibraltar (14-0), will “certainly” be absent for “several weeks”, coach Didier said on Sunday. The fields.
Unsurprisingly given the seriousness of this injury to his right ankle, the Parisian, who honored his first selection and scored his first goal with the Blues, at only 17 years old, left the French team and will not participate in the meeting in Greece on Tuesday, announced the French Football Federation (FFF) in a press release. If he is put back “at the disposal of his club”, specified the “3F”, PSG should be deprived of his services for the next L1 matches and for the crucial Champions League match against Newcastle, on 28 November, or even the one in Dortmund, on December 13.
“The black spot” of the match
Despite the absence of a fracture, “it remains a significant injury which will certainly require (…) several weeks”, declared Didier Deschamps during the Sunday show Telefoot, on TF1. “So, yes, that was the downside and the worry (of the match), because obviously, in matches like that, we don’t want to lose players. It could have been more serious.” he added.
For his first selection, Warren Zaire-Emery was injured when scoring the third goal for the Blues, after a quarter of an hour of play, on an uncontrolled tackle by Gibraltar defender Ethan Santos, excluded immediately for this movement.
The Blues, already assured of their qualification for Euro-2024 and even of being seeded for the draw, will play without him a match without any issues on Tuesday (8:45 p.m., Paris time) in Athens, during of the last day of the playoffs.