2023-11-17 14:32:03
LOU announced that their international third row Dylan Cretin had ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament on Thursday in training. His season is probably over.
Big blow for Dylan Cretin! The Lyon third row will be absent for many months, following rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee on Thursday in training. “The examinations confirmed the much-feared diagnosis,” wrote the LOU in a short press release. The Rhône club does not specify the duration of the player’s unavailability nor the terms of his next operation, but we can imagine that he will be absent for at least six months.
For comparison, Toulouse third row Anthony Jelonch suffered exactly the same injury last February during the 6 Nations Tournament, and he was able to play once more a little less than seven months later, during the World Cup. Also a victim of the same injury in mid-August, Romain Ntamack hopes to return to competition at the end of March. It is therefore hard to imagine Dylan Cretin returning this season, unless LOU, currently 9th, goes very far in the Top 14 (final on June 28).
Cretin reservist for the World Cup
Aged 26, Dylan Cretin will experience the first big break in his career which began in 2016 at LOU, he who has always played at least twenty matches per season (except in 2019-20, season stopped by covid). The native of Haute-Savoie played three matches during the 2023-24 financial year with the Lyon club, all as a starter. He was also part of the group of 42 players selected by Fabien Galthié to prepare for the World Cup and played in the preparation matches once morest Scotland and Fiji.
But he did not make the cut when the coach revealed his list of 33, having to settle for a third-row reserve status, just like Rochelais Yoan Tanga. Selected 22 times with the Blues since February 2020, for a try scored once morest Italy in 2021, Dylan Cretin is therefore the second official withdrawal for the 2024 6 Nations Tournament.
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