Paris Saint-Germain star striker Kylian Mbappé, injured in the left thigh, is unavailable for an estimated period of three weeks. He will therefore miss the reception of Bayern Munich on February 14 in the knockout stages of the Champions League, his club announced on Thursday February 2.
PSG number 7 suffers from“a lesion of the left thigh” after being injured in Wednesday’s Ligue 1 match at Montpellier (3-1). He will also miss the eighth final of the Coupe de France which will be played on Wednesday in Marseille, but his unavailability seems compatible with a return for the return match of C1, March 8 in Bavaria.
The absence of the Frenchman for the C1 is a great loss for PSG, as the 24-year-old striker dominates the statistical tables this season: Mbappé is currently at the top of the scoring charts in European competition, tied with Mohamed Salah ( 7 goals).
Several absent in the Parisian locker room
On Wednesday, coach Christophe Galtier was nevertheless reassuring. “It’s a contusion or a hematoma, we don’t know yet. There’s not too much to worry about.”he said, referring to “a blow behind the knee and on the muscle”. In images from Canal+ taken after the match, we see Mbappé commenting on his injury in the corridor of the locker room, declaring: “I injured myself on a support, I’m in too much pain. »
Also released on injury in Montpellier, the Spanish defender Sergio Ramos had to perform “additional examinations” this Thursday, said PSG. The Parisian club, still in search of its first crown in the Champions League, the ultimate objective of its Qatari owners, is currently already deprived, in defense, of Presnel Kimpembe and Nordi Mukiele. Neymar, meanwhile, was preserved on Wednesday to recover from a ” muscle fatigue “.