Injured during the match against Portugal (2-2) on Wednesday evening, Lucas Hernandez and Lucas Digne, the two left-backs of the France team, underwent medical examinations this Thursday afternoon in Budapest. The results (a pure Digne elongation, a contusion for Hernandez) finally led the staff to keep them in the group while Didier Deschamps was very alarmist on Wednesday evening about Lucas Digne’s state of health. The Everton player suffers from a right thigh and he was only six minutes on the lawn in the second half, after entering the break.
“The most worrying is Lucas Digne because he’s muscular. When there is an hamstring injury, it’s a very bad sign, ”said the coach of the world champions. Digne suffers more specifically from an elongation, we learned Thursday evening.
This retention among the 25 players who make up the selection (Ousmane Dembélé returned to Spain) does not mean that the two left side are fit and their tenure against Switzerland, next Monday in the round of 16 of the Euro, is still very hypothetical. As we indicated this Thursday morning, the presence of Lucas Hernandez on the ground of Bucharest where the meeting will take place seems compromised. The Bayern Munich side felt discomfort in his knee during the first period and that pain led Deschamps to take him out at the break. It is a contusion. Hernandez had already suffered one at this articulation during the first preparation match against Wales (3-0) in Nice.
A massacre among the Blues
This injury had forced the staff to replace him at half-time and to spare him during the following days. But he was able to participate in the first period against Bulgaria (3-0) for the second friendly match. Supplied by Digne who also has very little chance of starting against Switzerland, the Munich player was also preserved during the meeting against Hungary (1-1), counting for the second day of this Euro. The France team has not been spared in recent days. In addition to Dembélé, Digne and Hernandez, Marcus Thuram and Thomas Lemar left the Blues training prematurely on Thursday.
