During a press conference on the eve of the match between France and Israel, Didier Deschamps asked journalists to “leave” Kylian Mbappé alone.
Thursday evening at the Stade de France, the Blues will face Israel, for the penultimate day of the group stage of the Nations League. A meeting in which Kylian Mbappé will not take part, absent from Didier Deschamps' list, as was already the case last October. But this time, the French coach said that the player wanted to come but that he decided not to select him, without giving more details.
Invited before the media this Wednesday, Didier Deschamps obviously could not escape questions about the absence of the Real Madrid striker. Enough to annoy him… “ She is coming », blurted out “DD” after being questioned about the Mbappé case. “ I thought she would have arrived sooner”he added.
Deschamps: “Please leave him alone”
Before responding curtly to the journalists present in the press room. “ Listen, I told you what I told you. You are free to speak and interpret. I'm not going to repeat what I said. I have a match on Thursday, I have 23 players who are there and Kylian is not there. Please leave him alone “, thundered the former Juve coach.
According to certain sources, the non-summoning of Kylian Mbappé for this November gathering is a sanction inflicted by Didier Deschamps. Indeed, the latter would have hardly tasted the controversy of the month of October, during which the kid from Bondy celebrated in Stockholm while he was supposed to be recovering from a thigh injury.
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