Football: after a seven-month unavailability, Cesc Fabregas will return to competition

A long-awaited return.

At a press conference on Tuesday, AS Monaco coach Philippe Clément announced the return to competition this Saturday of Cesc Fabregas, the 34-year-old Spanish international midfielder.

Absent from the field for 7 months, the former Arsenal and FC Barcelona player will evolve with the ASM reserve which receives Aubagne on behalf of the 26th day of N2 (4th division).

“We were expecting him to be able to play a match on natural grass and it will be at the Stade Louis-II, with the reserve team, normally,” said Philippe Clement about Cesc Fabregas, who no longer played in competition. since September 16, when he entered the Europa League at halftime against Sturm Graz (1-0).

Since the start of the season, the 2010 World Champion and double European Champion in 2008 and 2012, has only played 5 games - each time as a substitute - i.e. 117 minutes, of which only 36 in Ligue 1. After a long rehabilitation following a strain on the hamstring muscles of a thigh, he had replayed in a friendly on February 23 against the reserve team of the English Premier League club Brentford (2-1).

A week later, Cesc Fabregas was back in the infirmary again with a sprained ankle.

This return is timely for the former teammate and friend of Thierry Henry who arrived at the Rocher club in 2019 and who will find himself at the end of his contract next June.