Kevin de Bruyne’s participation within the European Championship will solely change into clearer within the subsequent 4 to 5 days, mentioned Belgium coach Roberto Martinez two days after his star participant suffered a double face fracture.
Martinez instructed a information convention on Monday it was too early to make certain whether or not the 29-year midfield talisman might play within the match, the place Belgium kick off their marketing campaign in opposition to Russia on June 12.
De Bruyne fractured his nostril and a bone round his left eye socket in Saturday’s Champions League ultimate taking part in for Manchester City of their 1-0 defeat by Chelsea.
“Kevin had a special programme to the remainder of the gamers, he was solely going to affix us seven days later as a result of he was taking part in within the Champions League ultimate,” Martinez said.
“But that programme has obviously been changed, he won’t be able to relax and rest just yet.”
Martinez mentioned De Bruyne confronted a sequence of hospital exams, returning first to Manchester earlier than becoming a member of up with the Belgian facet.
“We’ve acquired to be very cautious, and we are going to get extra readability within the subsequent days, however I’ve spoken to Kevin and he was fairly constructive,” the Spanish coach added.
“We are very fortunate that even though he has a double fracture, he doesn’t need surgery. An operation would have made it impossible for him to play in the European Championship.”
“We don’t know if we will use him within the first recreation. I can’t give a solution as a result of I don’t have any medical details proper now, we’re nonetheless assessing the damage and over the following 4 to 5 days we count on readability. Then we are going to know what the following steps for Kevin shall be,” Martinez added.
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