2023-08-08 23:49:00
In Chelsea, we must wake up with the blues this Wednesday. The club announced on Tuesday that Christopher Nkunku will have to undergo surgery on his left knee. Injured last week in a friendly once morest Dortmund, the young striker has to face a new difficulty. He will not tread the lawns of the Premier League before “a long time”, according to the London club. For four months according to our British colleagues.
And yet, the native of Lagny-sur-Marne thought he would find the light. He who mainly found the treatment and rehabilitation rooms last season, with three months off from November to February for the same left knee. And a month without competitive football from March to April for a torn thigh muscle, left once more.
Cursed left knee
“We took risks because the pitch is not perfect and because the facilities are used for another sport. For me, it was bad luck”, launched Mauricio Pochettino following the injury of his new protege at Chelsea. Indeed it is not luck, while the former RB Leipzig was bought almost two months ago, for 60 million euros.
Blues fans haven’t seen much of the new signing. If not three goals in pre-season. By being excluded for several months from the grounds of the Premier League that he was going to discover, the former Parisian titi will have even more difficulty in acclimatizing. Too bad for this offensive talent, unstoppable when it happens to be launched. Especially since this new adventure in England might allow him to reveal himself even more in the eyes of European football.
Being stopped at the gates of a grand new adventure, Christopher Nkunku has unfortunately already tasted it, last November. As he prepares to play his first World Cup with the Blues in Qatar, rewarding brilliant performances in the Bundesliga, the versatile striker had to give it up painfully.
“Everyone of course thinks very strongly of him, confided Didier Deschamps at the time. We might see his immense disappointment. Those who are there have a smile and the privilege of making this flight to go to the World Cup. I know very well that he will be fully behind us. It can happen unfortunately but the whole group and me first, I will think very strongly of him”.
Can he still get up?
While he obviously will not be able to play France – Ireland on September 7 in qualifying for Euro 2024 and Germany-France on September 12 in a friendly match, Christopher Nkunku sees his future with the Blues still compromised. He who still struggled to take the plunge to be the same will-o’-the-wisp with the national jersey as with that of his club.
For Chelsea, it is also a heavy loss, as expectations are placed on him. Definitely, the London club has bad news with young French people, while Wesley Fofana is still injured in the knee. Moreover, we also mentioned the rest of the career of the young defender with such delicate knees. This is his fourth very serious knee problem in two years.
Christopher Nkunku is not there yet, but the same risk of relapse might await him. It’s time for recovery now for the Chelsea player who we will see once more in the second half of the season.
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