Since the winter break and seven new signings, coach Enrico Maaßen has had a lavish selection when it comes to line-up and squad nominations. Always on the outside: Tobias Strobl, who was injured for a long time. Now, according to kicker information, the midfielder is about to end his career.
End of career as a FC Augsburg player: Tobias Strobl.
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On November 6, 2021, Strobl played his last Bundesliga game to date in FC Augsburg’s 1-0 defeat at VfL Wolfsburg. Since then, Tobias Strobl (32) has been missing after a cruciate ligament rupture, and even after 16 months he has neither succeeded nor foreseen a comeback. At FC Augsburg, those responsible are now assuming that Strobl will have to end his career.
Quiet end on the pitch and coach of the second team
In 2020 he joined Borussia Mönchengladbach on a free transfer after his contract there expired and signed until 2023. Before that he played for 1899 Hoffenheim and 1. FC Köln. Now everything looks like a quiet end to Strobl’s Bundesliga career, who has scored a goal in a total of 186 Bundesliga games, plus five games in the Champions League and four in the Europa League. At FCA, Strobl made 29 Bundesliga appearances in his first season and five more in the second until his serious injury.
Defensive midfield not a big construction site at FCA
In defensive midfield, the Augsburgers are well positioned even without Strobl, the competition is raging. Elvis Rexhbecaj is fit again after tearing a muscle fiber and after coming on as a substitute in the 3:5 draw in Munich, he is ready for the starting XI on Saturday afternoon against Schalke (3.30 p.m.).
However, he cannot be sure. Julian Baumgartlinger recently stabilized the central team in the 2-1 win against Werder Bremen after coming on as a substitute, new signing Arne Engels was last seeded, even if the 19-year-old had a weaker day in the defeat in Munich.
And then there’s Niklas Dorsch, who is pushing back into the team after breaking his two metatarsal fractures, but had to drop out in Munich at short notice because he wasn’t feeling well. With this offer, Strobl is easily forgotten, whose contract expires at the end of the season anyway and who now has to think about a career after football.
