The fear was eventually confirmed. Touched against Borussia Dortmund (1-0), Wednesday evening, and forced out in the first half, Lucas Hernandez “suffers from a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee“, PSG announced on Thursday. As a result, the French international (37 caps) is out not only for the end of the Parisian season, but also for Euro 2024 with the France team. A huge blow.
Hernandez, who had an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) on Thursday, “will undergo surgery in the coming days“, according to PSG. “Lucas, you will come back even stronger. We are all with you“, added the Parisian club about its defender, victim of this injury for the third time in his career. Hit in the left knee during Niclas Füllkrug’s opening score for Dortmund (1-0, 36th) Wednesday in semi-final first leg of the Champions League, the 2018 world champion returned to the field for a few moments, before being replaced in the central hinge by the Brazilian Lucas Beraldo.
Victim of a ruptured cruciate ligament in his right knee at the end of 2022, the Parisian was affected this time in the left knee, a few weeks before Euro 2024 in Germany. This is bad news for Blues coach Didier Deschamps who will announce his list on May 16. The players will meet from the 29th in Clairefontaine. Hernandez had already had to leave the France team at the start of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, victim of a ruptured cruciate ligament in his right knee during the first group stage match against Australia.
“I have no news from Lucas Hernandez. That doesn’t sound very positive. But we’ll wait for the doctors to analyze it“, declared Luis Enrique after the match in Dortmund on Canal+. The ambient pessimism was right to be.
