🚨 Morocco confirm Abde injury but keep him in the World Cup | OneFootball

Abde is suffering from a sprain of the medial collateral ligament in his right knee and will miss the World Cup group stage with Morocco, as confirmed by the Royal Moroccan Football Federation.

The Real Betis winger picked up the injury in the friendly against Norway, when his former Betis teammate Chadi Riad fell onto his knee, forcing him to ask to be substituted at half-time.

The diagnosis points to a low- to moderate-grade sprain, with an estimated recovery period of four weeks. 

However, the Moroccan national team has decided to keep him in the squad even though he will miss the first two group-stage matches against Brazil and Scotland. His involvement in the third game, against Haiti on June 25, appears highly unlikely, and the plan is for him to be available for the knockout stage if his recovery stays on track.

Betis’ medical staff will coordinate the player’s recovery with their counterparts in the Moroccan team. The precedent of the injury he suffered in the Conference League final, which ruled him out for the start of last season, adds an extra note of caution to the monitoring of this process.

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