Real Madrid have confirmed Raphael Varane has suffered a thigh injury and the defender is now set to miss the Champions League final.
The La Liga giants announced on their official website that Varane had picked up the set-back in his left leg during a training session.
While Madrid did not put any time-scale on the 23-year-old’s injury, the club labelled the knock as a grade two problem – which tends to need up to six weeks to recover, which means Varane is now set to sit out next week’s Champions League final with rivals Atletico Madrid.
It is unclear if the centre-back could now also be out of this summer’s European Championships, hosted in his home country, which would leave France having to deal with a defensive crisis going into the competition.
With Aymeric Laporte and Kurt Zouma both already ruled out injured and Mamadou Sakho banned from football activity, it sees the French national side heading into the competition already without three of their five main centre-backs.
Adding Varane to that list means that Didier Deschamps could have a selection headache heading into their tournament opener against Romania.
Varane has played 26 times in La Liga this season for Madrid but had lost his place in Zinedine Zidane’s starting XI to Pepe in recent Champions League contests.
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