Defenders Griedge Mbock and Elisa De Almeida, injured before the Bleues rally, are out of the French team's next two matches against Nigeria on Saturday (9:10 p.m.) and Spain on Tuesday (9 p.m.) and have left the gathering.
The two Parisians “both in the recovery phase, participated in the first three training sessions of the Bleues, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at the CNF. They are made available to their Paris SG club in the best conditions”explained the FFF in a press release on Thursday.
De Almeida, injured in the foot several weeks ago, and Mbock (unknown injury) were included in Laurent Bonadei's extended list, but, still injured and still not having returned to competition with PSG, it was expected that they do not play a single minute in the French team.
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“I wanted them to be with us because they missed the first rally and we are doing a lot of tactical work on the game systems we want to put in place, in addition to creating a group. We are laying the foundations of the project. I wanted them to be associated with it”explained the new coach.
They will not be replaced.
