Winner of the Champions League last Saturday, PSG had to land quickly, brought back to reality by the prospect of a new imminent challenge. Expected in the United States next week to compete in the Club World Cup in its new format-with tens of millions of euros at the potentially key-Parisians to do this will have to deal with an inevitably harmful absence.
Thursday evening, the French team fell in front of Spain in Stuttgart, in the semi-finals of the League of Nations. A disappointment accompanied by a very bad news: the exit on the injury of an Ousmane Dembélé hit in the left thigh. Victim of a quadriceps lesion, according to the three -color medical staff, the interested party was sent back to Paris on Friday. With many doubts in his luggage.
Thus caught up in a muscular fragility already observed in recent weeks, the claimant to the Ballon d'Or 2025 will have to cut two to three weeks. A timing that strongly compromises its participation in the World Cup. Certainly, Ousmane Dembélé will not be there against Atlético de Madrid next Sunday. And it is a safe bet that it will not be available either against Botafogo, on June 19, and the Spenders of Seattle, on June 23.
The Barcola case less worrying than that of Dembélé
Presumably, the former Barcelona will not be able for this World Cup before the knockout stages, if PSG rallies them. A hard blow necessarily for the collective of Luis Enrique, which this season more than ever was able to count on the ecot of its fe-follet to energize the opposing defenses.
Also returned from the Blues on Friday, Bradley Barcola is less concerned. Victim suddenly at the level of the right knee against the Roja, the former Lyonnais could not reasonably continue against Germany this Sunday but should be able to hold his place against the Matelassiers with Paris on June 15.
