Even if Andrew Albicy and Moustapha Fall have been injured since the start of the preparation, Vincent Collet remains hopeful of being able to count on their presence during the Euro. The French coach admitted after Thursday’s win over Belgium that he was still keeping his fingers crossed.
A priori, no one wanted to believe it anymore. Well Named. It must be said that Andrew Albicy like Moustapha Fall have been injured since the start of the preparation. The first had also left the gathering before it even really took shape, dragging in its wake the second, also forced to stop very quickly. Three weeks before the start of the Euro (September 1 to 18, in Germany, Italy, Georgia and the Czech Republic), Vincent Collet wants to believe it. Despite the context, which leaves little chance of a return of one or the other of the two great absentees from this start of preparation, the French coach remains convinced that there is still hope to see the leader of Gran Canaria and the pivot of Olympiakos in the best of cases or at least one of the two on the floor with the Blues during the European Championship. After the new victory of the French team, Thursday evening in Montpellier against Belgium (90-71), the one who also has the coaching cap of the Boulogne-Levallois club has once again hinted that the hard work that Albicy like Fall do to attempt the impossible could well bear fruit.
Collet: “We hope…”
“They are professional players. They are preparing to return to the field as soon as possible. But unfortunately that does not mean that it will be with us, even if we hope so, ”confessed on beIN Sports a Collet, who would not spit in particular on a small miracle for Albicy. “Andrew is doing his rehabilitation in Gran Canaria (his club). We hope… This rehabilitation is going well and we hope that there can be a medical green light which has not yet been granted and does not depend only on us. He will first be checked by his club. But we are in contact, hoping that there can be a favorable evolution. Vincent Collet knows it: time is against him. He nevertheless hopes to win this time trial. And while it was expected that the coach of the Blues will reveal his list of twelve players selected to fly to Germany after the Montpellier internship, he will only do so later. With the hope that the two injured will no longer be injured and will come to change the situation.