Scorer against Nantes, Mbappé held his thigh before being replaced prematurely.

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Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS / AFP

  • Slightly affected against Nantes on Sunday, Kylian Mbappé was left to rest by Thomas Tuchel in C1 on Wednesday.

  • This did not prevent Deschamps from selecting him for the France team for the November rally.

  • For him, there were no objective reasons to let him rest in Paris, contrary to what the PSG coach would have liked.

Fans of conspiracy theory will see it as a subliminal message addressed to Didier Deschamps, others will say that it is at worst a not very bad little play on words.

"Blessed", in English "blessed", understand "happy", this is the short message posted by Kylian Mbappé on Twitter after the announcement of his selection for the France team on Thursday.

Difficult if not impossible not to make the connection with the state of form of the player, slightly injured during the PSG match in Nantes on Sunday.

And if we push the foundation up to orange, we could even see in the strange iconographic choice made by Mbappé the extension of the message written above.

But that's not our style.

Blessed 🙏🏽💙 ... @equipedefrance pic.twitter.com/SqwOZiDQtz

- Kylian Mbappé (@KMbappe) November 5, 2020

Tuchel hoped to keep Mbappé warm

Let's just say that the selection of the Parisian striker appears as a strong choice of the coach, while Thomas Tuchel and PSG have chosen to extend the forced rest of his player by a few days.

Absent from the group on Wednesday night in Leipzig in the Champions League, Mbappé should not play - or very little - against Rennes next Sunday either.

On paper, however, Deschamps made no mistake.

"The package of Camavinga is recorded, which is not the case of Kylian", he said Thursday at a press conference, thus extending the words of Thomas Tuchel after the victory in Nantes: "It is not not an injury for Mbappé, only fatigue ”.

No reason therefore for Deschamps to deprive himself of the player who, as he recalled, “is not just anyone”.

Even if he does not have 90 minutes in the legs, it is always interesting to have him available when playing an important game against Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal.

"I remain on my line of conduct"

“Regarding our deadline against Finland, and especially against Portugal and Sweden, there is no certainty that he cannot be available (…) There is no certainty in the negative sense ", Said the coach in a remarkable pirouette which only he has the secret.

Basically, we will put it in cotton on Wednesday for the least important match of the week, even if it means taking it out if necessary for the League of Nations.

It is an understandable decision, nothing to say about it, but not certain on the other hand that it will do the business of the Parisian coach.

Asked at the start of the week about the possible selection of his player for this November rally, the German seemed serene: "I think they [Mbappé and Neymar] will stay with us to recover".

Missed.

Scorer against Nantes, Mbappé held his thigh before being replaced prematurely.

- Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS / AFP

When a journalist asks him if he raised the subject with Tuchel, Deschamps suggests that he has not.

“I talk to the player, that's what is most important to me.

Afterwards, obviously that the doctors also exchange between them.

If he's on the list, there's a good chance he'll be available ”.

So that's for sure, no tension with the Parisian coach?

"No, there is no conflict with anyone," he swears.

Afterwards, I understand the position of the coaches, but I don't get involved in what happens in the clubs.

You know, it's always the same at the time of selection gatherings, conflicts can emerge but I stay on my course.

I have never taken any risks with my players.

We see, we do things calmly and in the interest of the player.

There is no conflict with Tuchel.

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