Another Injury Blow For France

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🗓️ 20 November 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew react to the news that Karim Benzema will miss the World Cup after suffering an injury setback in training. Julien Laurens joins the show to break down how the absence will affect the France squad and who will replace the striker up top. Plus, the guys break down the best possible lineup for Brazil and continue to react to Manchester United starting to explore ways to terminate Cristiano Ronaldo's contract. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.2	And I think anyone who's listened to my records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.
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0:30.8	Hello and welcome into the latest edition of ESPNFC.
0:33.5	We have Alain Moreno, Stevie Nicalshaka here, Slough for myself, K-Mori here in the studio
0:38.0	and we start on a low note.
0:40.4	Kareem Benzema has been rules out of the World Cup.
0:44.4	He picked up an injury in training with France and it means that he will not feature for
0:50.3	his national team throughout the World Cup.
0:52.4	Let's now welcome in Julian Laron from Qatar with us.
0:55.6	Jules, what can you tell us about this situation?
0:58.4	What happened?
0:59.4	Hi everyone, it's a terrible news of course for the national team, for France, for Kareem
1:07.4	himself.
1:08.4	He was at the end of the training session, behind closed doors tonight.
1:11.5	The first training session that Kareem was able to join in with the group because since
1:15.6	they got together on Monday because he had that muscular fatigue, that's how they put
1:21.6	it with Ramadrill.
1:22.6	He hadn't been able before to train with everybody else.
1:25.1	Tonight was the first night, he started all well and then towards the end he accelerated
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