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France striker Kylian Mbappé is set to be available for their Euro 2024 group game against the Netherlands on Friday despite suffering a broken nose. Coach Didier Deschamps stopped short of saying his captain would definitely start but told a news conference on Thursday: “Things are going in the right direction. We will make sure he is available.” Mbappé later trained wearing a mask with the French tricolore. He fractured his nose in the 1-0 opening win over Austria but is likely to wear a carbon fibre mask in Leipzig to protect the nose, with no operation yet scheduled. “He’s doing very well,…

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