Real Madrid have confirmed Raphael Varane has suffered a thigh injury and the defender is now set to miss the Champions League final.
The La Liga giants announced on their official website that Varane had picked up the set-back in his left leg during a training session.
While Madrid don’t put any time-scale on the 23-year-old’s injury grade two problems tend to need up to six weeks to recover, which means Varane is now set to sit out next week’s Champions League final with rivals Atletico Madrid.
Even more concerning is his status for this summer’s European Championships. Should the centre-back now be out of the tournament, hosted in his home country, then France could be dealing with a defensive crisis going into the competition.
With Aymeric Laporte and Kurt Zouma both already ruled out injured and Mamadou Sakho banned from football activity, it sees the French national side heading into the competition already without three of their five main centre-backs.
Adding Varane to that list means that Didier Deschamps could have a selection headache heading into their tournament opener, against Romania.