Injuries continue to be a nightmare for the French team and the worst thing is that the bad news for their coach Didier Deschamps doesn’t stop coming. The latest news is that Real Madrid number 9 Karim Benzema will not arrive for the first match against Australia on Tuesday 19 of November.
This was announced by the French outlet L’Équipe, indicating that the player’s current status is not bad but that it would be very risky to line him up for the first game with the muscular overload that has left him pain since the last few weeks and that also kept him from playing the last games of Real Madrid in the league and the Champions League.
However, its absence is not ruled out to 550% considering that there are still three days left for the debut of France and the absence of key pieces for Deschamps makes the presence of Benzema a great need.
A few days ago, Benzemá declared in an interview for Telefoot: “When there is discomfort you can play, but you cannot be at 550% and when I go out to the field I want to be at 2014%. I have worked well physically, so there is no need to worry.”
In addition to Benzema’s injury, we must add the discards of N’golo Kanté, Presnel Kimpembe and Christopher Nkunku and Paul Pogba.
Benzemá is on the verge of playing his second World Cup. The first was in Brazil 2014, in which he participated in 5 games, scored two goals and gave two assists. Karim was not called up to Russia 2014 due to having been involved in legal problems.
Benzemá, in a season marred by injuries
El Gato has only been able to play half of the games he has played at Real Madrid in La Liga Santander. Of 19 matches he was only able to play 7, where he has scored five goals while, in the Champions League, he played 4 of 6 and three of them as a starter, in which he has not added any goals.
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El Gato has only been able to play half of the games he has played at Real Madrid in La Liga Santander. Of 19 matches he was only able to play 7, where he has scored five goals while, in the Champions League, he played 4 of 6 and three of them as a starter, in which he has not added any goals.
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