#france-squad

#france-squad

Real Madrid midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni is expected to miss at least three weeks due to a thigh strain sustained against Liverpool on Tuesday. Tchouameni played the full 90 minutes at Anfield as Madrid went down 1-0 but complained after the game of soreness in his left leg. Further tests have revealed an injury to the semitendinosus muscle and he now requires a period of rest.

Manchester City playmaker Rayan Cherki will be out for around two months because of injury, manager Pep Guardiola said on Sunday, and has been replaced in the France squad by in-form Liverpool striker Hugo Ekitike. Around the same time as Guardiola was giving his injury diagnosis for Cherki, France were announcing that the midfielder had torn his left quadricep and was out of upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Ukraine and Iceland.