Nasri charges the staff of the Blues on the injury of Benzema

FRANCK FIFE / AFP (FILES) In this file photo taken on November 17, 2022, France’s forward Karim Benzema runs during a training session at the Jassim-bin-Hamad Stadium in Doha, ahead of the Qatar 2022 World Cup football tournament. – Karim Benzema left a training session injured on November 19, 2022. He is to receive medical examinations to determine the nature and severity of his injury, prior to the FIFA World Cup match against Australia on November 22. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP)

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Karim Benzema, here during training with the France team, in Doha, Qatar, November 17, 2022.

FRANCE TEAM – After the injury of Karim Benzema, package for the World Cup at Qatar, the questions. And reproaches. Those of Samir Nasri in this case, who instructed the staff to The french team this Sunday, November 20.

In the show Canal Football Club on Canal Plus, the former international now a consultant on the private channel regretted poor physical management around the Real Madrid striker.

“I got him yesterday (Saturday, on the phone), he was upset. But I think the management was bad with him.says Samir Nasri on set (listen to the video below). “He is a special player who requires special attention. We didn’t necessarily need Benzema for Australia, Tunisia or Denmark (the opponents of the Blues in the pool, editor’s note). He’s a player who takes you to the next level and who we needed for the knockout matches, so I find that really damaging. »

“You shouldn’t push him”

“You shouldn’t push him”, still regretted the former player of Manchester City. “ Last season, he played nearly 60 matches, it’s normal that he feels a certain fatigue, he is 34 years old. I think that it was not necessary to push, there, for this start of the World Cup ”.

” He is Ballon d’Orhe is a special player, he needed special attention.a conclu, amer, Samir Nasri.

????️ “I got him yesterday, he was upset (…) Management was bad with him” Samir Nasri on Benze’s package… https://t.co/gNvgNbpjwU

— CANAL+ Foot (@CanalplusFoot)

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Convalescent for a month, Karim Benzema hoped to see the end of the tunnel, Saturday, by participating in his first collective training with the Blues. But he injured the front of his left thigh after “an almost innocuous gesture”a “Too great a lesion in relation to the deadlines awaiting us”described Didier Deschamps, who will not replace the player.

At 34, Karim Benzema will probably never play a second World Cup, after that of 2014 which he finished in the quarter-finals, in the shoes of France’s top scorer.

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