Axed Denayer to prepare with Belgium squad in Kuwait

Nov 16 (Reuters) – Belgium luxuriate in added centre support Jason Denayer to their coaching camp in Kuwait on Wednesday, with officials confirmed the player is with the team as duvet earlier than the World Cup in Qatar.

Denayer, who plays for Shabab Al-Ahli within the United Arab Emirates, was once a shock omission from coach Roberto Martinez’s 26-player squad for the finals however had been positioned on a four-man standby list within the instance of harm to others.

There had been correctly being considerations over defender Jan Vertonghen, who did now not characteristic in any of Anderlecht’s final three video games earlier than the World Cup.

Belgium will face Egypt in a final warm-up match in Kuwait on Friday, earlier than their Crew F opener towards Canada on Nov. 23. They would possibly be able to even face Morocco and Croatia in their pool.

Martinez has till 24 hours earlier than Belgium’s opening match to change any injured contributors of his squad.

He will seemingly be sweating on the correctly being of leading ahead Romelu Lukaku, who has played twice since August after thigh and hamstring complications.

Belgium team doctors are hopeful he can play some phase within the group phases in Qatar, however in any other case it is seemingly he’ll get replaced within the squad by Nov. 22.

Reporting by Nick Talked about
Editing by Christian Radnedge

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