France continues with its karma: Nkunku misses the Qatar 2022 World Cup due to injury in training

France and Didier Deschamps are waiting too long. And it is that they do not stop receiving bad news days before the start of the World Cup in Qatar 2022: the forward Christopher Nkunku He injured his knee in training on Tuesday and will not be available for the tournament.

“Christopher Nkunku will not participate in the World Cup. The RB Leipzig striker left training on Tuesday before the end with an injury to his left knee. Unfortunately, the x-rays carried out at night revealed that it was a sprain”reported the French federation.

The week started badly for the French cast. Lionel Messi’s teammate at PSG on Monday, Prensnel Kimbembe, dropped out of the championship after failing to recover from an Achilles tendon discomfort. He thus joined the list led by N’Golo Kanté and Paul Pogba, who will not be in Qatar. And now the one joining the list is Nkunku. Quickly, the French doctors sent the tests to FIFA to request the incorporation of another player.

Deschamps had already called an emergency call Axel Disassifrom Munich, to replace kimbebeAlready Marco Thuram, of Borussia de Moenchengladbach, to complete the list of 26 players who can be called up (the coach had only named 25). Now the name of Nkunku’s replacement remains to be known.

Currently, Randal Kolo MuaniFrankfurt’s Eintracht striker, who took over as starter from Rafael Santos Borré and Lucas Alario, is the one who has the most chances to travel to Qatar.

Nkunku hasn’t had any luck, it must be said. The game in which he sprained his left knee was captured by several cameras during training held in Clairefontaine, the sports city of the French national team. The forward went in search of the ball with intensity and eduardo camavinga He finished first: the Leipzig forward’s leg collided with that of the Real Madrid midfielder and he fell to the ground. The injury is not seriousdistortion), but you’ll need more than that one month of recoveryso it will not be available.

Nkunku’s is a sensitive loss: He was the perfect replacement for Mbappé or Benzema. The growth of the 25-year-old Leipzig striker has been formidable in the past two years and there are not a few clubs in Europe who are looking for him. This season he has scored 17 goals in 23 games. The market value of him is 80 million euros.