Arsenal will not allow the national team Nicolas Pepe Bela from Ivory Coast

LONDON - The Ivory Coast national team is scheduled to play two friendly matches during an international break against Benin on Saturday, September 7, 2019 and Tunisia on Wednesday, September 11, 2019. However, it seems that Ivory Coast cannot lose. its flagship player, Nicolas Pepe, because he was injured.

According to official reports from Ivory Coast, Pepe is still recovering from injuries sustained in the Arsenal defense. Pepe had reported an injury to Ivory Coast Wednesday, September 4, 2019 and finally decided not to call on former LOSC Lille players.

Nicolas Pepe suffered an injury to his club (Arsenal) and announced his injury Wednesday afternoon yesterday, "wrote the official statement of the Ivory Coast national team at the launch Friday on Sportskeeda (6/6/2019).

However, according to Sportskeeda reports, Pepe's absence is not entirely true because he is still injured. The reason was, according to information available to them, Arsenal themselves did not allow these players to defend Ivory Coast during this week's international break.

It seems that Arsenal and Ivory Coast have agreed not to let Pepe defend the national team during this week's international break. Even from the start, Arsenal did not put Pepe's name on the list of players who joined their respective national teams.

The move will be taken by Arsenal because they do not want Pepe's injury to worsen. So, actually, Pepe's injury is actually not serious enough to make players unable to play. However, fearing the injury would worsen, Arsenal decided to make a pact with Ivory Coast so as not to call Pepe in his friendly matches against Benin and Tunisia.

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