French team, Euro 2024: huge concern for Mike Maignan, affected in the adductor

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As Euro 2024 approaches, the European selections are holding their breath with each injury. And in particular the French team. Already decimated during the last 2022 World Cup, in Qatar, the French team is now worried about the fate of its new starting goalkeeper, Mike Maignan (28 years old). Ahead of the clash against Juventus on Sunday evening, the AC Milan goalkeeper was injured during the warm-up and was unable to participate in the match on the 34th day of Serie A (0-0).

This Monday, after subsequent examinations, AC Milan announced that their goalkeeper Mike Maignan was injured in the right adductor. “Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) performed today revealed a lesion in the right adductor longus. New examinations will be carried out next week depending on the evolution of the injury.explained, in a press release reported by theAFPthe Serie A club, without providing more information on its duration of unavailability.

Didier Deschamps’ list on May 16

According to the latest information from the Italian press, his absence is already planned for the next two weeks. But nothing is certain for the future, while Didier Deschamps must give his list of players to compete in Euro 2024, in Germany, on May 16. As a reminder, Mike Maignan had already been spared two weeks ago, as a precaution, according to the Rossoneri. And although he has only missed two matches this season, the former LOSC goalkeeper was injured in the knee last March in the Europa League, without much seriousness.

An injury which could be a real blow for Didier Deschamps, who had finally installed him as a starter to take over from Hugo Lloris in the French cages. Due to a relapse after a calf injury, he had been absent from Didier Deschamps’ list for the 2022 World Cup. But now, less than two months before the Blues’ first match, on June 17 against In Austria, he is uncertain to play his first international competition as a starter.

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