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During the last training session of the Blues, Kylian Mbappé presented a new mask. Without doubt the one with which he will face Belgium.
FOOTBALL – Is this the right time? 48 hours before the Euro 2024 round of 16 clash between France and Belgium, Kylian Mbappé showed up for the last training session with a brand new protective mask on his face.
Still recovering from his nose injury during France’s first match, the striker and captain of the Blues unveiled this new model, very different from the one he played with against Poland.
Although a scorer in this last match, Kylian Mbappé may have appeared bothered by his previous mask with two hooks behind his head. With this one, there is only one, but it seems to fit his face more precisely. And also seems to have different ventilation from its previous model, as shown in the photos shared by the French team this Saturday, June 29.
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Additional adjustments, undoubtedly to allow him to think less about this essential protection for the healing of his nose. Enough to bring to three (or even four with the tricolor model) the number of different masks tried by Kylian Mbappé to return to his best level.
Masked against the Belgians
Slightly under pressure after missing its group stage, the French team advances feverishly offensively against the Red Devils. This meeting, scheduled for Monday July 1 at 6 p.m., therefore has everything of a trap for the Blues. For this reason, Didier Deschamps and the rest of the staff of the France team are doing everything to allow their captain to regain his offensive outlook.
Having scored no goals in the game (one penalty, one own goal), the French have only scored two goals in three group matches. On the Belgian side, it’s not much better with two goals scored against Romania, and that’s it. Two teams currently lacking offensive realism, who will therefore want to get going again before a necessarily tough quarter-final.
With this new mask, Mbappé will have to show the way to the Blues on Monday, in any case, to hope to do better than in 2021. This Saturday, a new warning also arrived in the direction of the French team with the elimination of Italy, beaten 2-0 by Switzerland. The selection that had brought down the French team during the last Euro.
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