{"id":493442,"date":"2025-10-12T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T11:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493442\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T11:22:28","slug":"mbappe-to-miss-frances-world-cup-qualifier-vs-iceland-because-of-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493442\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbapp\u00e9 to miss France’s World Cup qualifier vs. Iceland because of ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS (AP) \u2014 France captain Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 will miss his team’s World Cup qualifier against Iceland on Monday because of a right ankle injury, the French soccer federation said Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Real Madrid star scored in France’s 3-0 victory over Azerbaijan on Friday but limped off the field<\/a> in the 83rd minute. Just before the international break, he had hurt the same ankle<\/a> while playing against Villarreal.<\/p>\n

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France confirmed that its star forward would not make the trip to Reykjavik, and that he would return to Real Madrid.<\/p>\n

After Friday’s game, France coach Didier Deschamps had said the injury was not serious and that Mbapp\u00e9 just felt sharp pain after taking a blow to the same ankle.<\/p>\n

France, runner-up at the 2022 World Cup<\/a>, is off to a perfect start in the qualification process for the 2026 edition. It has won all three of its games in Group D.<\/p>\n

Pavard called up<\/p>\n

France defender Ibrahima Konat\u00e9 was released from the squad on Saturday and replaced by Marseille’s Benjamin Pavard.<\/p>\n

Konat\u00e9 had been struggling with a minor thigh injury picked up while playing for Liverpool against Chelsea last weekend. He did not play against Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n

Pavard joined Marseille from Inter Milan in the offseason.<\/p>\n

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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 France captain Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 will miss his team’s World Cup qualifier against Iceland on Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[146866,162531,885,19558,2000,299,36,7059,8883,15160,162532,544,85671],"class_list":{"0":"post-493442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-2022-world-cup","9":"tag-ankle-injury","10":"tag-chelsea","11":"tag-didier-deschamps","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-iceland","16":"tag-inter-milan","17":"tag-kylian-mbappe","18":"tag-pavard","19":"tag-real-madrid","20":"tag-villarreal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115360939591596142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493442","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=493442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}