Defender Dayot Upamecano and midfielder Aurélien Tchouaméni, two holders of the French team, did not participate in collective training in Doha on Monday, two days before the World Cup semi-final against Morocco.
The twenty-two other players started the session with a warm-up led by physical trainer Cyril Moine, open to the press during the first fifteen minutes.
Tchouaméni and Upamecano moved to the Jassim bin-Hamad stadium, the training ground of the Blues, where they stayed inside, we learned from the management, without further details. According to the daily newspaper L’Equipe, the midfielder suffered a calf blow in the quarter-finals against England on Saturday and the defender is struggling with a sore throat.
The French team will face Morocco on Wednesday (8 p.m.) in al-Khor for a place in the final, four and a half years after being crowned in Moscow against Croatia. The Croatians will meet Argentina in Lusail on Tuesday (8 p.m.) in the other semi-final.
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