France star Desire Doue was left with a loose front tooth after being hit with a nasty elbow in France’s 3-1 defeat to Italy in the Nations League.
The PSG winger was left in need of some emergency dental work by Italy’s Davide Frattesi who caught the teenager in the mouth while shielding the ball.
In his post match interview French boss Zinedine Zidane, when asked if Doue had lost a tooth, replied: ‘Yeah I think so. We’re going to take him straight there, a tooth has come loose I think, we’ll take care of him starting tomorrow.’
It was a poor day all round for the Frenchman who not only had his tooth dislodged but was also unable to impact a poor game for Les Blues in which the Azzuri beat them at the San Siro.
To compound Doue’s misery it was the offender Frattesi who scored Italy’s second goal in the 3-1 win just six minutes before he performed some unorthodox dentistry.
The Lazio midfielder’s goal completed the Italians’ comeback after going 1-0 down to a Michael Olise goal just ten minutes in before Inter Milan‘s Francesco Esposito levelled things up just 16 minutes later.
Desire Doue was left with a loose front tooth after receiving an elbow in the mouth from Davide Fratessi
Fratessi got away with just a yellow card as Italy beat the French 3-1 at the San Siro
Frattesi gave Italy the lead early on in the second half before Esposito netted his second from the spot to put the game out of reach.
Speaking after the game Zidane was surprisingly positive about his team’s performance despite the loss, saying that losing is, ‘part of the process.’
The French then wont onto say: ‘The most important thing is creating chances. Hitting the post had an impact, but I’m not disappointed.
‘I would have been if we hadn’t created good possession. What we need to analyse is why we weren’t at the right level off the ball.’
The World Cup winner was not entirely positive however, later saying: ‘in the second half we ran into difficulties, especially defensively.’
The victory put Italy level on points with the French in Group A with both sides having won three drawn one and lost one.
But France will have an opportunity to right their wrongs and return to the top of the group on Sunday as they welcome Turkey.
But if Italy beat Belgium on the same day the French will have to settle for second.
