France's injury curse continues as Lucas Hernandez suffers a ruptured ACL FRA
Just days later, Real Madrid marksman Benzema was ruled out after, despite the likes of Anthony Martial, Alexandre Lacazette and Wissam Ben Yedder in fine form this campaign.
His decision left France down to 25 players, and with Hernandez now out, Deschamps has only 24 players at his disposal for the rest of the World Cup.talkSPORT will be offering wall-to-wall coverage of the 2022 World Cup We’ll be broadcasting all 64 games in the tournament live, with over 600 hours of coverage across our network.talkSPORT is widely available across the UK via DAB digital radio and on 1089 or 1053 AM.
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