Paris (AFP)
The Blues and Paris SG striker Kylian Mbappé tested positive for Covid-19 and forfeited the France-Croatia match scheduled for Tuesday evening in Saint-Denis (8:45 p.m.), team management announced on Monday. of France.
The young Frenchman, who nevertheless participated in the training the day before the match Monday evening before learning the results of the test passed Monday morning, is the 7th PSG player to have tested positive, after in particular Neymar.
"He was placed away from the group after receiving the results, at the end of training, before returning to his home in the evening. Like the whole of the delegation, Kylian Mbappé had undergone a preliminary test The result was negative like the one last Wednesday, at the request of UEFA, as part of Sweden-France "Saturday, the match where he scored, said the management of the Blues.
The French will therefore certainly also be absent on Thursday for the return of PSG to Ligue 1, in Lens, like six of his teammates including superstar Neymar and Argentines Angel Di Maria and Leandro Paredes.
He also risks withdrawing from the Ligue 1 Classic against Marseille, scheduled for Sunday: according to the medical protocol of the League, each player tested positive must be isolated for eight days.
The French team, which played Saturday (1-0) in Sweden for its first match in nearly ten months, was hit hard by the pandemic: Mbappé is the 4th player to forfeit after a positive test.
Just before the announcement of the list of 23 players summoned for the start of the League of Nations, Paul Pogba had indeed had to give up, then the Lyonnais Houssem Aouar a few days later.
Finally, Steve Mandanda had also had to leave the Blues Friday morning, after two positive tests probably due to "residues" according to the Federation (he had previously recovered from the virus caught in his club in Marseille).
The Blues have been evolving since last Monday in a health bubble, chaining the PCR tests and partitioning themselves from the outside, between their training center in Clairefontaine, their hotel in Stockholm or the Stade de France, where they trained late Monday. afternoon and where they will face Croatia on Tuesday evening (8:45 p.m.).
© 2020 AFP