This is very bad news for the Girondins.
Bordeaux player Laurent Koscielny, released Sunday against Monaco in Ligue 1, has a left Achilles tendon crack, the Girondins said on Tuesday without specifying the duration of the unavailability of their international defender.
A handicap for the maintenance race
Koscielny, 35, injured himself after 20 minutes of play on a support after recovering a ball.
He walked out of the field with tears in his eyes.
Since then, the Bordeaux captain has undergone clinical and imaging examinations which confirmed the feared diagnosis on Sunday by the Bordeaux club.
“He felt like a tightness in the Achilles tendon.
This is not good news, ”his coach Jean-Louis Gasset reacted after the match.
The nature of Koscielny's injury, contracted until 2022 with an option for two more years, is very bad news in the race for maintenance with only five days remaining.
Bordeaux, 16th but lacking results for more than two months, is only five points ahead of the dam Nîmes.
In May 2018, Koscielny, then at Arsenal, had already suffered from a ruptured Achilles tendon, but in the right leg, which deprived him of the World Cup in Russia.
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