Kylian Mbappé will miss the first leg against Bayern Munich in the Champions League
Paris Saint-Germain star striker Kylian Mbappé, injured in a thigh, is unavailable for an estimated period of three weeks and will miss the reception of Bayern Munich on February 14 in the round of 16 first leg of the Champions League, announced his club Thursday, February 2.
PSG number 7 suffers “from a lesion of the left thigh” after being injured in Wednesday’s Ligue 1 match at Montpellier (3-1). He will also miss the round of 16 of the Coupe de France on Wednesday in Marseille, but his unavailability seems compatible with a return for the C1 return match on March 8 in Bavaria.
The absence of the Frenchman for the C1 is a great loss for PSG, as the 24-year-old striker dominates the statistical tables this season: Mbappé is currently at the top of the ranking of scorers in European competition tied with Mohamed Salah (7 goals).
Several absent in the Parisian locker room
On Wednesday, coach Christophe Galtier was nevertheless reassuring. “It’s a contusion or a hematoma, we don’t know yet. There’s not too much to worry about.”he said, referring to “a blow behind the knee and on the muscle”. On Canal+ images taken after the match, we see Mbappé commenting on his injury in the hallway of the locker room, declaring: “I injured myself on a support, I’m in too much pain”.
Also released on injury in Montpellier, the Spanish defender Sergio Ramos had to perform “additional examinations” this Thursday, said PSG. The Parisian club, still in search of its first crown in the Champions League, the ultimate objective of its Qatari owners, is currently already deprived, in defense, of Presnel Kimpembe and Nordi Mukiele, while Neymar was preserved on Wednesday to recover from a ” muscle fatigue “.
