In France team, a Mendy can replace another and packages accumulate! Benjamin Mendy has forfeited the matches of the Blues against the Netherlands and Uruguay. The left-back of Manchester City suffers from a sprained left knee and a meniscal lesion. Didier Deschamps has decided to call the defender Lyon Ferland Mendy, who honors his first convocation at the Blues.

Ferland Mendy was called for the first time in France by Didier Deschamps. The left-back defender of Olympique Lyonnais replaces Benjamin Mendy, package for the meetings of the Blues against the Netherlands and Uruguay. Benjamin Mendy had exams in Clairefontaine which revealed a sprained left knee and a meniscal lesion.

@ benmendy23 (left knee sprain and meniscal lesion) is replaced by Ferland Mendy (23 years old - @OL) pic.twitter.com/SSLBd4G2fR

- Team of France (@equipedefrance) November 12, 2018

Ferland Mendy will therefore know his first meeting with the France team. Like Alassane Pléa, Ferland Mendy is expected in the evening at Clairefontaine. The day was punctuated by packages: those of Paul Pogba, Anthony Martial, then drafted Alexandre Lacazette, replaced by Moussa Sissoko and Alassane Plea.

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