{"id":162213,"date":"2025-06-06T06:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T06:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162213\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T06:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T06:11:09","slug":"france-fans-are-all-saying-the-same-thing-about-william-saliba-after-what-happened-in-5-4-defeat-vs-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/162213\/","title":{"rendered":"France fans are all saying the same thing about William Saliba after what happened in 5-4 defeat vs Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Arsenal star William Saliba missed France\u2019s Nations League game against Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Frenchman played a lot of football for the Gunners in the 2024\/25 season, and he had cemented his place in Didier Deschamps\u2019 side as well.<\/p>\n

However, an injury Saliba suffered forced France to leave him out<\/a> of their squad for their games in June. <\/p>\n

On Thursday night, Les Bleus took on Spain in the Nations League, and they suffered a 5-4 defeat. Arsenal star Mikel Merino<\/a> scored for La Roja. <\/p>\n

France had their moments in attack, but their makeshift defence let them down.<\/p>\n

Fans of Deschamps\u2019 side took to X during and after the game to have their say about the defeat, and all of them made the same point about Saliba.<\/p>\n

What France fans are saying about Arsenal star William Saliba after losing to Spain<\/p>\n

France were without three of their key defenders against Spain \u2013 William Saliba<\/a>, Dayot Upamecano and Jules Kounde. <\/p>\n

That made them really weak at the back, and fans of Les Bleus went on social media and claimed that their side would\u2019ve easily won the game if Saliba was fit enough to play.<\/p>\n

One France fan said: \u201cWith Saliba, I swear we win this game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another tweeted: \u201cSaliba would\u2019ve had Lamine Yamal in his pocket. I\u2019ve no doubt about my guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe absence of Saliba in Lenglet\u2019s position killed the match for us,\u201d wrote another.<\/p>\n

Another French supporter said: \u201cYou\u2019ll see when Saliba, the best defender in the world, comes back.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSaliba starts, we win the match. I\u2019m not saying clean sheet, but we would\u2019ve won,\u201d tweeted another.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Giuseppe Maffia\/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesIs William Saliba\u2019s injury serious?<\/p>\n

Saliba is one of Arsenal\u2019s<\/a> most important players.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman has been outstanding for the Gunners since he made his debut in 2022, and his partnership at the back with Gabriel Magalhaes is the best in the business. <\/p>\n

Saliba missed Arsenal\u2019s final game of the season against Southampton<\/a> due to a hamstring injury, and that has kept him out of the France squad as well.<\/p>\n

But, the injury is not believed to be serious. Mikel Arteta revealed just before the final game that Saliba is only expected to be out for a \u2018few weeks\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That suggests that he will be ready for pre-season in July.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal star William Saliba missed France\u2019s Nations League game against Spain. The Frenchman played a lot of football…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,10580],"class_list":{"0":"post-162213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-william-saliba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114634941092239965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}