At the Stade de France,

There is always something going on when Bulgaria comes to play in Paris.

If we could hardly see Emil Kostadinov putting on his crampons to haunt the Stade de France, the odds of an injury from a major player of the Blues were less delusional as long as we were pessimistic in nature.

After a grueling season and barely less tiring pre-Euro 2021 preparation, it makes sense that the mechanics creak a bit.

Fate decided that it would fall on Karim Benzema, whose path in the France team is decidedly stingy in straight lines.

Everything was too good up to now.

The announcement of the return, the soft eyes of Karim, the adulation of the teammates and a victory with the applaudimeter at the announcement of his name by the announcer of the Stade de France… It was therefore necessary to get Karim out of his dream.

But rather than gently squeezing her forearm, life chose to bang her knee like that, because otherwise it's less fun.

“He took a crutch on the vastus medialis of the knee, explains Deschamps at a press conference, and a little on the muscle above the knee.

He felt the muscle hard, he shouldn't take any chances.

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DD reassuring on Benzema

So KB19 sat down with his legs stretched out on the lawn to signify his forfeit. A good big air conditioning, as we say in the jargon. The replacement of the revenant has almost reduced the ambient effervescence to nothing and has incidentally transformed us into notorious hypochondriacs. Olivier Giroud had barely left for the warm-up when we skimmed all the more or less serious health sites for the keywords "knee contusion injury duration". If we exclude Doctissimo which suggests amputation as soon as possible, we learn that the convalescence can go from a few days to six weeks, which, you understand, does not reassure us more.

We therefore return to the coach for reassuring words. “It's a blow, there is always worse in life, it is not an ankle or a knee (broken), in which case we would not ask the question. I have a high level medical staff so we're not going to spend every day wondering how he's doing. It will get better day by day, I have no particular concerns. "

Hope is reborn.

And to continue on the road to consolation, we can always turn to the double of Olivier Giroud, double-scorer out from behind the bundles while the guy arrived without rhythm at Clairefontaine, he who is no longer placarded but totally locked in the attic of Stamford Bridge.

"He puts two more, taking into account his situation, physically and psychologically ... It remains a scorer with a mental and a morale foolproof, salutes DD.

The group will need it, so much the better for him and the France team.

»Let us recognize in Olive this capacity to come back to the game like no one else.

In an hour of play, he went from "if I scratch minutes at the Euro it's already not bad" to "frankly holder is not bad either".

Giroud double-scorer but less influential in the game

Let us beware, however, of falling into the snapshot. Yes, Giroud has scored twice, no the debate on the 9 in the France team is not relaunched. If tomorrow Benzema realizes when he wakes up that his sore has miraculously disappeared, he will start against Germany. Because of course, he did not score for his return, but he demonstrated his importance in the game of the Blues, which cannot be boasted of Giroud, as lethal to the finish as erased in the construction, Tuesday night.

“I was discreet because the balloons weren't coming.

[…] We could have perhaps been better, ”defended the Chelsea player at the microphone of

L'Equipe

, who would no doubt have hoped to arouse as much enthusiasm among his partners as Karim Benzema, who will have when even touched a lot of balls in half an hour of play and helped to fluidify the offensive sector.

A quality too precious for us not to want to beg all the gods of the Earth to bring us back to Karim as soon as possible.

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  • Didier Deschamps

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