“The sensations are not good”: Benzema’s injury that puts France on alert 14 days before the World Cup in Qatar

The Spanish league launched the penultimate day before the start of the World Cup in Qatar 2022 in which Barcelona, ​​with one game more than Real Madrid, is the leader after beating Almería 2-0 in a duel marked by the retirement of Gerard Piqué.

Now, the You meringues They will have to do their part and beat Rayo Vallecano this Monday to regain the lead. However, as confirmed by the Carlo Ancelotti, the team from the capital will not have the presence of the French area reference Karim Benzema.

The Italian coach’s statements alerted the french teamwho hopes to have him in one of the most dangerous tridents that the competition will have with Kylian Mbappe y Antoine Griezmann.

“Doctors say he can’t play and he won’t”stated Ancelotti at the press conference prior to the match against Rayo Vallecano on the situation of Karim Benzema, who He did not train with the group on Saturday or this Sunday.

“He is not going to play, because the sensations are not good. She has trained on Friday and seemed to be fine, but then it has cost her a bit. He will not be available in Vallecas, ”explained the technician. merengue and concluded: “We look at the facts and they say that he cannot play. So he’s not going to play.”

Without an official medical report, the Spanish media agreed that everything would be about a muscle fatigueproduct of an injury in September from which he seems not to have fully recovered.

After three games without playing, Benzema put on the shirt again to face Celtic last Wednesday for the last day of the Champions League, however, he only did it for 30 minutes.After training on Friday, the player did not exercise the last two days in which he was advised to hit the brakes in the competition to dedicate himself to gym sessions and physiotherapy.

Unfortunately for the French, this will be his eighth absence this season (40% of the games have been lost) and he worries that he may arrive lacking rhythm to compete in the World Cup in Qatar. Anyway, between the questions of the journalists in the press conference, the Italian stated: “It will not be available tomorrow but on Thursday it will”referring to the last game before the stoppage against Cádiz.

“We need Benzema, but he will reach the level of last season”, Carlo Ancelotti sentenced, in addition to having praised the young people who are occupying the merengue offensive: the Brazilians Vinicius Jr and Rodrygo.

It is worth mentioning that France will make his World Cup debut and defend the title on November 22 against Australia in the second turn. The next date will be against Denmark, in one of the clashes that most promises in the group stage. They will finally close their zone when they face Tunisia the 30th.

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