When Raphaël Varane collapses, it’s the France team that pitches. And maybe even Didier Deschamps who is shaking. Hard to believe that when he saw his defender leave the lawn of Stamford Bridge in tears on Saturday evening, the coach did not also take a little hit on the noggin. One more. As if the season of glitches was in full swing in autumn, now the vice-captain of the Blues finds himself in turn inflating the ranks of an infirmary already in overdrive. The fault of a small lesion of the biceps femoris, at the level of the ischio, which should keep him away from the field between three and four weeks. A bastard delay which, if it does not deprive him of the World Cup, does not grant him any possibility of delay (or complication) in his recovery phase before the entry into the running of the world champions, on November 22, against Australia.
