During the last few days the sports world was worried about the nose of Kylian Mbappé. It is that the captain of the French team suffered a fracture in the last minutes of the game that his team won by the slightest difference against Austria in the Euro 2024and his participation in the continuity of the continental competition was presented as a permanent mystery that kept the supporters of Le Bleu.
The 25-year-old figure who will continue his career in the real Madrid is one of the most prominent protagonists of the contest, but a hard crash against the shoulder of Kevin Danso It caused an international stir because the galactic world champion in 2018 had to be replaced and could not continue with the commitment. The images of Kiki When he left the stadium in an ambulance to undergo X-rays, he promoted a series of hypotheses ranging from possible surgery to the possibility of missing the remainder of the competition in the Old continent.
“Kylian Mbappé suffered a broken nose during the second half of the match between Austria and France this Monday in Düsseldorf“said a statement from the French federation. And then he clarified: “The captain of the French team was treated first by the medical staff and the doctor Franck Le Gallwho diagnosed a broken nose. Diagnosis confirmed during radiological examinations in the Düsseldorf hospital. The footballer has returned to the French team’s base camp. He will undergo treatment in the coming days, without undergoing surgery immediately”.
The truth is that Deschamps’ team will have to play the second round against Netherlands and one of the probabilities is that Mbappe remain among the substitutes until the swelling in his face goes down and he can return to the starting lineup in the last match of the Group D versus Poland. “A mask will be manufactured so that the number 10 of the French team can consider resuming the competition after a period dedicated to treatment“, indicated the FFF.
In the last training session, all the cameras were on the striker, who posed with the mask with the colors of your selection to be able to carry out the proposed activity. The ex PSG and Monaco He worked alongside his colleagues and some analysts raised the idea that he could be in front of the Orange, in the duel that will define the leader of the area. However, the newspaper Marca de España reported that the scorer could not use said element, because “according to the regulations, the clothing must be the same color and cannot show any identification of the equipment or the protection manufacturer.”
The striking thing is that no team has suffered so many goals from Kylian Mbappé as Netherlandson his journey and 80 games and 47 goals with the French shirt that started precisely against the Dutch team, whom he has celebrated six times and whom, if he is finally fit for the broken nose, he will face this Friday.
Debutant with the blue he March 25, 2017, at 18 years old, in a 3-1 victory over Luxembourg in which he entered in the 79th minute, his first goal with the senior team came in the fifth game, without scoring in the 2-0 defeat against Spain. Just the August 31, 2017for the qualifiers for the Russia World Cupin the stadium of Saint Denis of Paris, Didier Deschamps sent him to the field instead Olivier Giroud for Kiki to score the overwhelming 4-0 for Orange (Antoine Griezmann and Thomas Lemar had scored the other goals on two occasions). It was the first conquest of the popular idol before Jesper Cillesen. The first of his 47 goals for Francewhich place it as eThe third all-time top scorer for his teamonly surpassed by Olivier Giroud (57 goals in 132 games) and Thierry Henry (51 in 123 games).
Netherlands has suffered it more than anyone else, with an average of a goal every 62 minutes from Mbappé in his five matches. And the expectations will be installed on the presence of the legend before the Orange. It will be a new presentation of the Ninja Turtlewith a new mask.
The images of Mbappé with the mask that he will use against the Netherlands
