“Please leave him alone”, Didier Deschamps steps up to defend Kylian Mbappé

Le sélectionneur de l’équipe de France, Didier Deschamps est monté au créneau pour un de ses joueurs. EPA – OLIVIER MATTHYS

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Lors de sa conférence de presse avant le match entre la France et Israël, ce jeudi 14 novembre (20h45), Didier Deschamps a demandé aux journalistes de ne pas évoquer le cas Mbappé.

“Kylian (Mbappé) is not here, please leave him alone”, asked the coach of the French team Didier Deschamps on Wednesday, the day before the match against Israel where the captain is absent, as in October, even though he is not injured.

“I thought she would have arrived earlier”, the question about Mbappé, smiled the technician at a press conference at the Stade de France.

“It's better like that”

The usual captain has already missed both matches October when he was able to play for Real Madrid, and was not called up in November “because it's better that way”, Deschamps explained when revealing his list. Mbappé is currently in turmoil, in poor football form and hampered by a suspicion of rape during a party in Stockholm.

“You are free to speak, to interpret, I am not going to repeat what I said. I have a match tomorrow, I have 23 players who are going to go, Kylian is not here, leave him alone, please”, Deschamps said.

“Kylian, I think he will come back soon”, added the captain against Israel, N'Golo Kanté. “We wish him the best during this time.”