Karim Benzema is set to miss Euro 2016 due to an ongoing investigation, and international teammate Laurent Koscielny says he will be missed.
Laurent Koscielny believes the absence of Karim Benzema from the French national squad will be a "small handicap" at this summer’s European Championship.
Benzema is currently suspended from Les Bleus pending an investigation into his role in a plot to extort money from teammate Mathieu Valbuena, and FFA president Noel Le Graet has stressed that the striker will not be involved in the Euros unless he has been exonerated.
That means France will have to do without a forward who has scored 16 goals in 15 league games for his domestic side Real Madrid this term, but Koscielny thinks his country can cope.