Monaco’s 2025 calendar year will end on a good note. A relief for the players of the Principality club, who are going through a complicated patch. Defeated in the championship during the last 2 days, AS Monaco is left behind in the race for the Champions League.
Yesterday, the Rocher club faced Auxerre in the round of 32 of the Coupe de France. Mika Biereth’s double allowed Monaco to qualify for the next round. Unfortunately, we will not remember that from this meeting at AbbΓ© Deschamps.
No World Cup for Takumi Minamino!
Contact with Fredrik Oppegard will therefore have disastrous consequences for Takumi Minamino. Monaco’s strong man since the start of the season (21 matches, 4 goals, 3 assists), the Japanese will not play again in the coming months. The reason? Medical examinations revealed that Minamino suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
The calculations are fast. Injured at the end of December, the Japanese international has no chance of playing in the 2026 World Cup in Mexico, Canada and the United States. βTakumi will be able to count on the support of the entire Club throughout his recoveryβ can we read in the official press release from the Monegasque club. Except that in the meantime, the second part of the AS Monaco season promises to be long. Very long, even. Unless Minamino’s injury forces Monaco leaders to recruit a left winger to compensate for the absence of the Japanese.
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β Actu Foot (@ActuFoot_) December 22, 2025
As a Saint-Etienne supporter, I have not lost hope of seeing the Greens return to the top. In the meantime, I’m relying on other historic French football clubs to take my trouble patiently, and thus admire clubs like RC Lens.
