TFC: Life without Zakaria Aboukhalal, how do Toulouse deal with the injury of their main player?

A few days ago, the stadium crowd was able to enjoy the famous “Haka” song by New Zealanders, during the Rugby World Cup match between the All Blacks and Namibia. TFC fans will no longer be able to enjoy the injured Zakka Abu Khalal “most likely” until the end of the season, the Toulouse club announced on Thursday evening.

If in rugby, where secrecy is not a religion, the nature of the recent injuries suffered by Antoine Dupont or Romain Ntamack was quickly revealed, in football, the silence weighs heavily. At TFC, regarding Abu Khalal’s illness, medical confidentiality was only mentioned half-heartedly, and remains far from the microphones. All that’s left is guessing, waiting for the best. But whether it’s the Crusaders or the meniscus, the result is the same: the Morocco international should not wear the purple jersey this season, and that’s very bad news for Carles Martinez Neuville and his staff, who are losing their player the most. Influential since the beginning of the season.

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“It’s a big loss for the team, Zakaria is a key player,” admits Mikkel Dessler. But it’s a team sport. The house cannot fall because you are missing a player. I’m sure “others will appear in his team.” “He wants to be positive about the Danish defender, who will also have to adapt to a new way of playing in his right lane.

“I started to create a good, solid relationship with Zakaria, we’ve been playing together for a while. He’s a dynamic character, he likes to attack deep. Of course, the ideal situation is to play with the same guy every time.” Now we will have to readapt.”

“Our goals were very clear during the transfer period.”

Carles Martinez must think the sky is about to fall on his head. Before losing Abu Khalal, his top scorer this season, he had already been forced to start the competition without Ibrahim Sissoko, who suffered a foot injury. All his plans were shattered.

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“It’s football life, every day can change, breathes the Spanish coach. When we prepared for the season, we thought, together with the club, in different profiles. Our goals were very clear during the transfer window. Zakka’s injury is very important for us, because we lost Another winger, and we no longer have that profile as a player who likes to attack deep. We can ask other players to do the same thing as Zakaria and Ibrahim, but sometimes the characteristics of players are different. For me, it is important that players feel comfortable with their own characteristics.

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The problem is that there are not many pure wingers in the team anymore. Will El-Bajrawi increase his playing time? Will he help Magri again? Will Dunham settle permanently on the right? Will Martinez release Bangri?

Many questions and the beginnings of answers on Sunday against Metz.