Hard blow for N’Golo Kanté, injured and package for the end of the rally of the Blues

Hard blow for the midfielder of the France team, and for the Blues. Hit in the hamstrings Wednesday against Ukraine (1-1), N’Golo Kanté forfeited the end of the rally of the Blues, announced the French Football Federation (FFF) Thursday, March 25.

The Chelsea player will join his club and the Blues will go to Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan on Friday with a squad of 25, not 26, with the midfielder not being replaced for the last two matches in March, counting for qualifying for the World-2022, against Kazakhstan on Sunday and Bosnia on Wednesday.

The player, who turns 30 on Monday, has “Felt a pain in the hamstrings of the left thigh at the very end of the match against Ukraine, Wednesday, at the Stade de France. He had clinical and radiological examinations on Thursday, which revealed a small lesion ”, explained the Federation in a press release published in the evening, on the eve of the departure of the Blues for Kazakhstan.

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Pogba back after injury

Kanté played the ninety minutes of the match against Ukraine on Wednesday in Saint-Denis, alongside Adrien Rabiot in the midfield. The Blues, inefficient, were surprised (1-1) for their entry into the running in this qualifying campaign for the World Cup in Qatar.

Long-time deprived of Corentin Tolisso, another world champion playing in this position, coach Didier Deschamps can nevertheless count, in addition to Rabiot, on Tanguy Ndombélé and Moussa Sissoko, two Tottenham players who did not have the slightest minute. Wednesday. But especially on the world champion Paul Pogba, who comes back from a recent injury.

Deschamps has already promised “Rotation” for the match in Nur-Sultan (ex-Astana), which will be played after a long trip of six hours by plane, with in addition a five-hour time difference with France, to play on a synthetic field and with the temperatures negative that are expected this weekend in the country of Central Asia. Before leaving for Nur-Sultan, the Blues, however, do not deplore any negative PCR test for Covid-19, said the FFF.

The World with AFP