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Manchester United’s French defender Raphaël Varane was injured during the Premier League game against Chelsea on Saturday before walking off the pitch, but in tears…
Manchester United’s French defender Raphaël Varane was injured during England’s Championship game at Chelsea on Saturday before walking off the pitch in tears three weeks before the World Cup in Qatar.
After trying to stop a pass towards Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang just before the hour mark, the player’s right foot appeared to hit the ground and he fell forward.
Varane remained for a long time with his face on the ground and apparently already aware of the seriousness of his injury, before the intervention of the trainers.
He refused to be carried off on a stretcher, apparently walking normally around the pitch, much to the jeers of Blues fans, with his face in his shirt or buried in his hands to wipe away tears.
Varane’s injury is in the back of the thigh, we learned from the player’s entourage contacted by AFP.
Despite a warm hug from his coach Erik ten Hag when he reached the entrance to the dressing room, he entered the players’ tunnel with his head down.
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After the game, ten Hag was evasive about the player’s condition.
“Nothing,” he initially replied when asked by Sky Sports what he could say about the severity of the injury or his chances of playing at the World Cup.
“With this type of injury, you have to wait at least 24 hours before you can make a diagnosis,” he then emphasized at a press conference.
Asked about the player’s tears when he left, the coach assured that “you understand his emotion, but it has to wait, we don’t know”.
“Obviously he has experience (of these injuries), but the club’s medical department must do its job to get the correct diagnosis,” he insisted.
Varane had already missed a month and a half and nine games for his club with a similar injury from early November to late December last season.
The injury is a major blow for the former Madrid player, who has been in good form with the Red Devils and who had already missed Euro 2016 with a left thigh injury picked up at the end of May.
A month before the French team’s first game in Qatar, against Australia, and despite his reaction that seems to leave little hope, the results of the first examinations for the Blues vice-captain will be anxiously scrutinized by coach Didier. Deschamps and his staff.
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Manchester United’s French defender Raphaël Varane on the ground with a thigh injury against Chelsea, October 22, 2022 in London
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