World Cup Qualifiers: France Lose N’Golo Kante, Corentin Tolisso, Call Up Matteo Guendouzi, Adrien Rabiot

Sep 1, 2021
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World Cup Qualifiers: France Lose NGolo Kante, Corentin Tolisso, Call Up Matteo Guendouzi, Adrien Rabiot

Based on French Soccer Federation, N’Golo Kante has not “totally recovered” from a left ankle damage.© Instagram

France changed injured midfielders N’Golo Kante and Corentin Tolisso with Matteo Guendouzi and Adrien Rabiot on Wednesday for this month’s three World Cup qualifiers. The French Soccer Federation mentioned Chelsea’s Kante has not “totally recovered” from a left ankle damage whereas Bayern Munich’s Tolisso was “a struggling a muscular damage within the left calf”. Les Bleus are high of Group C after three rounds. They kick off per week of matches at dwelling to Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday in Strasbourg earlier than visiting Kiev to play second-placed Ukraine on Saturday earlier than internet hosting Finland in Lyon on September 7.

Guendouzi and Rabiot will miss Wednesday’s recreation and be a part of the squad in Strasbourg early on Thursday.

Rabiot, who has 19 caps, was not initially referred to as up by Didier Deschamps as a result of he was not within the Juventus squad for his or her Serie A season opener however after the France squad was introduced he began in opposition to Empoli on Saturday.

Deschamps referred to as up Guendouzi twice in 2019 however he didn’t make the group.

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The 22-year-old has made a powerful begin to the season at Marseille the place he’s on mortgage from Arsenal and scored in opposition to Saint-Etienne on Saturday.

For Wednesday’s match, Deschamps nonetheless has Paul Pogba and Thomas Lemar in addition to uncapped newcomers Jordan Veretout and Aurelien Tchouameni as midfield choices.

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