Kylian Mbappé mostcurrent: Nose is damaged, examining mask alternatives for secret Netherlands clash

Kylian Mbappé handed France a significant increase in the hours following his bloodied departure from the group’s Euro 2004 opener, showing he might play on with a broken nose throughout the group phase — perhaps with the assistance of a protective mask.

Sources close to the French group informed FOX Sports that Mbappé hadactually been taken to a Düsseldorf healthcenter after being subbed out late in France’s 1-0 success over Austria following a heavy accident with opposition protector Kevin Danso.

Head coach Didier Deschamps validated to French tv station TF1 that the gamer’s nose was thought by group medicalprofessionals to be damaged even when he was examined on the field in the closing minutes of the Group D match.

That was lateron validated by medicalfacility doctors, with Italian reporter Fabrizio Romano publishing on X at 1.26 a.m. German time on Tuesday that Mbappé had simply left the medical center to return to the group hotel and that X-rays had exposed a break. 

There were preliminary worries that the injury might need surgicaltreatment that might guideline him out of the rest of the group phase and he will be evenmore assessed on Tuesday. However, the mostcurrent reports from France, integrated with Mbappé’s mask post, appear to show a swifter return.

Former United States captain Clint Dempsey broke his nose in the group’s opening videogame of the 2014 World Cup, however played and scored in the next videogame and decreased to usage what was then understood as a “Kobe Bryant-style” mask, following the basketball superstar’s usage of one in a videogame versus the Miami Heat in 2012.

Having won its veryfirst videogame, France now has a choice to make about how to manage the playing time of its prominent captain and most powerful scoring hazard.

Friday’s clash with the Netherlands shapes up as being the videogame that might choose leading area in the group. However, Deschamps requires no advising that having Mbappé at complete strength throughout the knockout phase is of vital significance.

“The nationwide team will constantly be morepowerful with Kylian,” he informed pressreporters. “But if news does not go along these lines we will have to battle without him. But Kylian is Kylian, and every group is morepowerful with him in it.”

Martin Rogers is a writer for FOX Sports. Follow him on Twitter @MRogersFOX and subscribe to the everyday newsletter.

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