Absent from the French team’s gatherings since October, Kylian Mbappé will therefore not be on the pitch on Sunday evening for the match against Italy, as part of the sixth day of the Nations League (8:45 p.m.). A contested meeting in Milan in which Gianluigi Donnarumma will participate. Starting in front of the Italian cage, Kylian Mbappé’s former teammate at PSG does not regret his absence.
Quite the contrary. Present on Saturday in front of the press to discuss this meeting, the transalpine giant confirmed that he was not unhappy not to have to deal with the captain of the Blues.
“I don’t know the choices that were made in the other teams and how it happened, but it is of course an important absence. I know Kylian, his way of playing. He is one of the strongest in the world. »
Barcola, danger identified
For the former AC Milan goalkeeper, it is therefore a good thing that France is deprived of its 2018 world champion striker.
“If he had been there, he would have caused us a lot of trouble. » However, “Gigio” Donnarumma knows that he will have to remain vigilant. “As I said before, there will be other players. I know them all and they have a lot of quality. They have strong attackers like Kolo Muani, Barcola, Zaire-Emery. »
And the Italian international insisted on a player in particular. “Especially Barcola who has incredible talent. And they of course have players capable of causing us problems. » Already qualified for the rest of the competition, Italy and France will compete tomorrow for first place in group 2. For now, it is National who has the advantage with three points more than the Blues. Points won during the Italian success of September 6 against the French (1-3).
