Mbappé injures knee scoring France’s only goal on debut in On boots | OneFootball

Kylian Mbappé scored France’s only goal in Türkiye but left the pitch after injuring his left knee as he struck, overshadowing Zinedine Zidane’s first game in charge.

According to El Periódico Mediterráneo, the forward immediately felt something in his supporting knee, went to ground and was forced off. Zidane called it “hipertensión en la rodilla”, while France’s medics gave only “lesión tendinosa”. He has departed the camp and returned to Madrid for further tests.

The incident came in the first match of his career not in Nike boots, a week after ending an almost two-decade association to sign with Swiss brand On. The company has not previously produced football boots, and the partnership will see Mbappé act as global ambassador and help develop and test a line targeted for 2027.

He wore a prototype against Türkiye, an all-white pair bearing an alphanumeric code and the word LightSpray. Days before the injury, sports physiotherapist Ángel Villanueva warned on X that footwear changes can subtly alter biomechanics and temporarily raise injury risk, so require monitoring.

Even so, the injury cannot be pinned, even partly, on a change of boots, as such issues are always multifactorial. The heavy early-season minutes after a minimal pre-season surely also play a part.

Mbappé returned to training on 10 August and started on 22 August against Espanyol. José Mourinho has picked him from the outset in all eight of Real Madrid’s games this season, substituting him only once, at Inter Milan in the 93rd minute.

Source: El Periódico Mediterráneo

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