Kevin De Bruyne joined up with the Belgium squad on Monday however stays a significant doubt for their Euro 2020 opener in opposition to Russia after present process minor surgical procedure on a facial damage, his coach Roberto Martinez stated.
“Kevin De Bruyne has joined the group and that’s unbelievable information. He appears to be like prepared, he appears to be like contemporary, and simply to see him strolling into the eating room was an actual spotlight of the day,” Martinez told reporters at Belgium’s team base near Brussels.
The Manchester City playmaker underwent “a small operation” on his face on Saturday morning after struggling fractures to his nostril and left eye socket in a collision with Chelsea’s Antonio Ruediger within the Champions League closing on May 29.
Martinez admitted De Bruyne could wrestle to be able to play in opposition to Russia in Saint-Petersburg in Belgium’s first Group B recreation on Saturday.
“He joins the medical division now for the subsequent few days after which at any time when we get the inexperienced mild he’s going to be built-in into the sporting aspect,” stated the previous Everton supervisor.
“At the moment I am not counting on Kevin to be in the first game but if that changes it will be because he adapts well to his own programme,” he continued, including that “it’s to early to resolve” when he will be able to play.
Belgium, who travel to Saint-Petersburg on Friday, will also face Denmark in Copenhagen on June 17 and Finland, back in Russia, on June 21.
On Sunday De Bruyne became just the third player to win the English Professional Footballers’ Association’s (PFA) player of the year prize for a second consecutive season.
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