On Friday evening, the opening match for the second half of the Bundesliga season between FC Bayern and Borussia Mönchengladbach will take place (from 8.30 p.m. on stern-Liveticker, on TV on Sat 1 and DAZN). But unfortunately it takes place under difficult conditions. The current corona wave has fully gripped professional football. Only ghost games take place – if there are any games at all. At least the first game day is played in full. Whether it will stay that way has by no means been determined given the rapidly increasing number of infections caused by the Omikron variant.
The example of Bayern Munich shows how tight it can get. The team of coach Julian Nagelsmann currently has the most corona cases in its own ranks: Nine players have been infected, as well as assistant coach Dino Topmöller. In addition, injured players (Leon Goretzka, Niklas Süle) are absent or the Africa Cup (Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, Bouna Sarr) is canceled. Nagelsmann had to order two 16-year-olds (Arijon Ibrahimovic, Paul Wanner) into the professional squad in order to be able to play. Opponent Borussia Mönchengladbach has four corona failures to complain about. The latest report came from SC Freiburg, which reported three cases on Friday afternoon. Only two clubs have so far not had an infection in their team.
We provide an overview of the current situation without any guarantee of completeness, as the figures change almost every hour.
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