“If he is in his bed in Monaco this evening, then he will be on the bench”, Mama Baldé’s struggle to return to France

Will Mama Baldé participate in this Friday's meeting in Monaco with Stade Brestois? This is obviously the wish of Éric Roy, already deprived for this trip of Soumaïla Coulibaly, Romain Faivre and Massadio Haïdara. But Thursday noon, it was not yet won.

At a press conference, the SB29 coach first detailed the injuries of the players already out: “Massadio is recovering from a muscle injury. Romain had an ankle injury which woke up and Soumaïla felt pain in his pubis this Thursday morning. And then there are those we are trying to find,” said Roy ironically, referring to Mama Baldé’s struggle to reach France after her two matches with the Guinea-Bissau selection, the last having taken place on Tuesday.

“Normally, he should arrive in the evening”

“Mama Baldé is on the planes, we don’t know where,” says the local coach. It's complicated for him to leave Guinea-Bissau because there were hardly any planes the last two days, so there are a lot of uncertainties.

Victim of at least one flight cancellation, Baldé (2 goals in L1 this season) is expected in Nice this Thursday evening, “we will try to get him directly there,” specifies Roy. That's the goal. Normally he should arrive in the evening. If he is there this evening, in his bed in Monaco, he will be there on the bench with us.”

Also summoned with their national team during the break, the Swiss Edmilson Fernandes and the Malian Kamory Doumbia were present Thursday morning in Kerlaurent. With Mali, Doumbia scored two goals in two matches.