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Karim Benzema has been robbed of the chance to play in his last World Cup as he leaves the France national team camp with a thigh injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Frenchman won the Champions League, La Liga and Ballon D’or this year and has been seen as a key member of the France national team that wants to retain the World Cup.
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Les Bleus has been rocked by injury problems after Paul Pogba and N’Golo Kante missed the competition because of injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Nkunku was also injured in training last week and sent home.
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Benzema becomes the latest member of their squad to leave and it is bad news for Frances.
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His departure means there is yet one less experienced player in the squad and they will try to show they can deliver without the missing stars.
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Matchplug<\/a> understands the injury is serious and could keep him out of action for up to two months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Karim Benzema has been robbed of the chance to play in his last World Cup as he leaves the France national team camp with a thigh injury. The Frenchman won the Champions League, La Liga and Ballon D’or this year and has been seen as a key member of the France national team that wants to retain the World Cup. Les Bleus has been rocked by injury problems after Paul Pogba and N’Golo Kante missed the competition because of injuries. Christopher Nkunku was also injured in training last week and sent home. Benzema becomes the latest member of their squad to leave and it is bad news for Frances. His departure means there is yet one less experienced player in the squad and they will try to show they can deliver without the missing stars. Matchplug understands the injury is serious and could keep him out of action for up to two months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,159,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fifa-world-cup","category-football-news","category-premier-league-football-news"],"yoast_head":"\nBenzema will miss the World Cup because of an injury - Matchplug Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/benzema-will-miss-the-world-cup-because-of-injury\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Benzema will miss the World Cup because of an injury - Matchplug Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karim Benzema has been robbed of the chance to play in his last World Cup as he leaves the France national team camp with a thigh injury. 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