This meeting at the Vélodrome for Jonathan Clauss was to be that of confirmation. The confirmation of a return to the top, in his garden, in front of his loved ones, the white tunic embroidered with the rooster against Chile in a friendly. The one that would allow “Djoninho25” – his Instagram handle – to provide guarantees to Didier Deschamps and restore his trust. So that this time, unlike the 2022 World Cup, Clauss actually gets his ticket back to Germany for his first big adventure in Blue. And then patatras. As is often the case when the picture seems idyllic, Clauss ends up becoming disillusioned. To the point of having to say stop after barely eleven minutes. “ Unfortunately for Jon, he got injured and it’s muscular, slipped, face closed, DD in post-match press conference. You will have to check with the exams, but I came across Jean-Louis Gasset and Ghislain Printant. They asked me if I could lend them some full-backs, but hey, I don’t have many either. […] It’s regrettable, especially since this is in Marseille, that it happens very early (in the match). » The duration of his unavailability fell not even 24 hours later: Clauss is on the sidelines for three or four weeks according to Lin Provence. There’s never a good time to get injured, but this might be it.
A risk for the Euro?
A month-long injury at this time of year inevitably instills doubts in many heads. That of Clauss first, who is preparing to miss important deadlines, such as Sunday’s Classic against PSG or an important trip to Lille in the championship, without forgetting the continuation of the Marseille epic in the Europa League on the Lisbon side . All this while the person concerned has had a string of good performances on a regular basis in recent weeks, remaining one of the main creators of danger on the Olympian side, even if some criticized the club’s best passer for keeping some under his feet. No one has forgotten, and certainly not him, the charge against him from Mehdi Benatia, OM sports advisor, in mid-February both on Prime Video and on Canal +: “ We have noted that for several months, he has not been playing at his level. We especially noted behavioral problems with the coach. You should know that he has been received several times in the offices. We didn’t decide one morning to bring out a French international, one of the best players in the team. We expect a lot in terms of rigor and discipline, especially for a player of his level. »
But beyond the person concerned, it is necessarily in the minds of his coaches that the mess is present. For Jean-Louis Gasset, already, who lost four other players during the break – Pape Gueye, Bamo Méité, Ismaïla Sarr and Ulisses Garcia – and who will have to tinker to cope with the daunting schedule that awaits his OM. Same thing for Didier Deschamps, who will announce his list on May 16, only two weeks after Clauss’ estimated return to competition. His luck is that in his position in the national team, it is the desert. Only Jules Koundé is in place, but the weak competition is rather favorable to him. To avoid experiencing new disillusionment at the international level, the countdown has already begun.
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