He felt severe muscle pain in his left leg and had to rush out of training in Doha. The indications were bad and within a few hours they have become a bomb. Karim Benzema all is lost worldas announced this Saturday night by the French federation.
A new very sensitive loss for the current world champions that he directs Didier Deschamps. According to some sources, it was the Real Madrid striker himself who, in view of the first tests, has decided to get out of the tournament without much doubt, to give his coach time to summon a replacement quickly.
“In my life I never give up, but tonight I have to think about the team like I always do so reason tells me to give my place to someone who can help our team.”
Benzema, France striker
“In my life I never give up,” Benzema wrote on his Instagram account to announce his withdrawal from the World Cup due to injury, indicating that “tonight I have to think about the team as I always do so reason tells me to leave my someone who can help our team have a great World Cup. Thank you for all your messages of support.”
“Three weeks off”
“Struck in the quadriceps of the left thigh, the Madrid striker was forced to give up participating in the World Cup,” the French federation said, after confirming that he had “performed an MRI at a Doha hospital, which unfortunately confirmed a injury to the rectus femoris, which will require a recovery period of three weeks”.
Hit in the quadriceps of the left thigh, Karim @Benzema is forced to give up participating in the World Cup.
The whole team shares Karim’s sadness and wishes him a speedy recovery ????#FiersdetreBleus pic.twitter.com/cxXFBpgFx8
— Team France ⭐⭐ (@equipedefrance) November 19, 2022
“Muscular fatigue”, a term coined by Madrid to justify the long absences of its striker in recent league games, has gone from bad to worse. Deschamps had pampered Benzema to the fullest. In fact, he had been working outside the group to avoid risks. And yesterday, in the first session with the group, the Golden Ball I was happy. He returned to work normally with the rest of his teammates, integrated, moreover, of course, into the starting eleven designed by the coach.
“I am extremely sad for Karim, he had made the World Cup a major objective and despite this new hard blow I maintain all the confidence in my group”
Deschamps, French coach
But, suddenly, he noticed that pain in the quadriceps of his left leg and the smile with which he entered the training ground turned into an obvious expression of concern. He could not continue training, while the doctors of the French team feared the worst. The seriousness of the injury began to leak (first it was RMC, then L’Equipe) and the feeling of orphanhood settled in the French team, punished to the maximum by injuries.
“I am extremely sad for Karim”, Deschamps has communicated in the official media of the French federation where the discarding of the striker was confirmed. “He had made the World Cup a major objective and despite this new hard blow I maintain all the confidence in my group”, added the French coach.
Neither Kante, nor Pogba, nor Nkunku
Deschamps was left without Kante and Pogba, the midfielders who gave cohesion and harmony to their team’s game. Then, before flying to Qatar, I also fell Nkunkuthe promising and talented striker of Leipzig, after colliding in training with Camavinga. Initially it was thought that he had suffered a sprain in his left knee which forced him to leave the concentration of the selection.
This Saturday, however, the news was even worse because the German club confirmed that their 25-year-old striker seemed to have a torn external ligament in that knee that could cause him to miss the remainder of the season.
????️ “I am extremely sad for Karim who made this World Cup a major goal. Despite this new setback, I have full confidence in my group. We will do everything to meet the immense challenge that awaits us. »Didier Deschamps https://t.co/sHiPETfLFS
— Team France ⭐⭐ (@equipedefrance) November 19, 2022
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In the case of Benzema, according to the first estimates, it is not the same muscle injury that has kept him out with Madrid, where he has barely played three league games (Osasuna, Barça and Elche) since the beginning of last September. The striker, with that muscle fatigue, has chained the last four league games (Sevilla, Girona, Rayo and Cádiz) without playing a single minute in the white shirt. All after collecting the Ballon d’Or that accredited him as the best player in the world, all so as not to suffer any more mishaps on his return with France to a World Cup.
He was not called up in the 2010 World Cup, he played in Brazil-2014, but was eliminated in the quarterfinals. And he was not selected for the world champion France in Russia-2018. Now Benzema the one from Qatar-2022 is lost due to injury
He was not in Russia-2018 when the French team won the title, submerged as he was in coexistence problems that left him out of that champion group. He now misses another, this time due to injury. And he thus maintains his curse with the World Cups. He was not called up for the one in South Africa-2010, he was in Brazil-2014, but France ended up eliminated in the quarterfinals, he did not enter the Russian champion team due to the sextape scandal that kept him out between 2015 and 2021 and now, in Qatar-2022, an injury sends him home before the ball gets moving.