Lucas Chevalier’s season turns into a disaster. This applies to PSG, where the former Lille player has lost his starting place to Matvey Safonov since the start of winter, but also to the French team, where his place as third goalkeeper appears more and more threatened a fortnight before the announcement of the list by Didier Deschamps.
While some imagined him starting the match on Saturday against Angers, three months after his last start, the native of Calais had to sit on the sidelines once again and Luis Enrique was left having to explain his decision.
“Football is incredible. You criticized Chevalier all the time during the first part of the season, I defended him. Now the question is when he will play. It’s high-level football,” had launched the former midfielder.
A World Cup in danger
But to believe The Teamsome at PSG are upset by his situation. If his attitude and his involvement remain impeccable, he seems to be taking his downgrade more and more badly. To the point of remaining more and more often on the fringes of the group. An isolation which would not have gone unnoticed by certain executives, who are worried about their teammate.
And Lucas Chevalier may not be at the end of his troubles. Because the Parisian goalkeeper could also have to give up on the World Cup in the United States. Although he was called up for the rally last March, his level of play displayed during training sessions raised eyebrows in Didier Deschamps and the French staff.
“It will be something to think about after this gathering. I’m not putting pressure on Luis Enrique, quite the contrary. We’ll see how it evolves. I don’t know what the next day will bring,” he said about him when Hugo Lloris applied for the position of third goalkeeper.
