France manager Didier Deschamps has reassured fans that the national team’s first-choice center back, William Saliba, “is fine” and “would have played” immediately if he needed to after an injury scare.
Fears began to circulate at the start of the week when news broke claiming that Saliba had aggravated an existing back injury during Arsenal’s Champions League final defeat to Paris Saint-Germain. One report even described Saliba as “very doubtful” to feature at the World Cup in any capacity.
