FC Bayern: Two serious injuries make the record champions

Alphonso Davies? For months out! Dayot upamecano? For weeks out! The next frustration diagnoses for the already decimated defensive of FC Bayern left effect at sports director Max Eberl before the crucial weeks of this season.

“Unfortunately, there is always a risk that players will come back injuries during international breaks – this time it hit us particularly hard. The failures of Alphonso Davies and Dayot Upamecano weigh hard for FC Bayern,” said Eberl after the latest bad news for Munich defense, in which, among other things, goalkeeper Manuel Neuer is also missing.

“Our squad is strong and will catch these failures,” Eberl emphasized almost defiantly. “We will now move closer together. The quality is there to continue to pursue our big goals.”

Foreign defender Davies (24) will be missing for several months. The Canadian international was seriously injured in the international match against the United States (2-1) when his association was initially accepted. As FC Bayern announced after an investigation in Munich, Davies suffered a cruciate ligament tear in the right knee and is still operated on today.

A break from injury must also take central defender Upamecano (26). Free joint bodies in the left knee were found in the French international. This means that coach Vincent Kompany has to do without him for several weeks. In the South Korean Minjae Kim, another central defender is missing due to Achilles tendon problems. It is about controlling Kim’s burden well, Kompany said before the international break.

The Belgian are crumbling away more and more supports in the defense. Davies’s pace, which had signed a new contract until the summer of 2030 in early February, none of the replacement candidates Hiroki Ito (25) and Raphaël Guerreiro (31) in their repertoire.
Uncoverly and reliably: As in the past, Eric Dier for Upamecano can step in “Mr. Reliad” Eric Dier (31). With the Englishman, whose contract expires at the end of June, the club knows what it has. Dier brings “something fundamental” for the team because he is very professional and always fulfill his role ideal, Kompany praised him. Josip Stanisic (24) would also be an option.

After the international break, the leaders in the Bundesliga are the decisive weeks in which titles are awarded. On Saturday, the Munich gates FC St. Pauli. The day before, pursuer Bayer Leverkusen can temporarily approach three points with a threesome against VfL Bochum, almost three weeks ago in the Bavarian capital.

In April it will be serious for Bayern in the Champions League. Kompany’s team, which dreams of the “Title Dahoam” in the final on May 31, welcomes Inter Milan on April 8, before the semi -finals are in Italy on April 16 in Italy. Can Captain Neuer (38) be there again?

The 2014 world champion in the round of 16 of the Champions League against Bayer Leverkusen (3-0) contracted a muscle fiber tear in the right calf at the beginning of March. Finally, he had to take a training break because the calf showed a reaction. Since the exclamation mark against Bayer, new newcomer Jonas Urbig (21) has been represented, but most recently canceled due to a foot injury for the U21 national team.

Eberl announced that Davies will “get all the support on his way back” that he needs. “We will also accompany UPA closely in the coming weeks and assume that he will be available to us soon.”

Davies had already been replaced in the international match of his Canadian against the USA (2-1) in Inglewood, California, due to knee problems in the twelfth minute. However, he had initially given the all -clear. Upamecano also made it with France on Sunday with a 5: 4 penalty shootout against Croatia in Paris in Paris.

According to Davies’ advisor Nedal Huoseh, his client against the United States shouldn’t have played. “I was surprised that he started because he had announced that he was unable to start,” said Huoseh of the media group “Münchner Merkur/tz” (Thursday edition). “A source within the CSA told me on Friday evening that Alphonso would not be in the starting eleven, but might get a few minutes. I told you that he shouldn’t play at all.”

Huoseh in particular criticized national coach Jesse Marsch, the former coach of RB Leipzig. “In my opinion, Jesse Marsch would have had to better master the situation, that could have been prevented 100 %,” said the consultant. “Before his time in Canada, Jesse was a professional coach at the highest level and should know exactly that you shouldn’t take any risk with players if they tell you that they cannot play.”