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“Bayern has two faces: the Bundesliga face and the Champions League face”
In the quarter-final first leg of the Champions League, FC Bayern drew 2-2 at Arsenal. The second leg takes place next week in Munich. Reporter Philip Röttger says: “FC Bayern has managed to bring the mentality back to the pitch.”
Bitter diagnosis for FC Bayern, but especially for the player himself. Serge Gnabry was injured again. This significantly darkens the striker’s prospects of being able to jump on the German national team’s European Championship bandwagon.
National player Serge Gnabry from FC Bayern tore a muscle fiber in his left back thigh in the quarter-final first leg of the Champions League at Arsenal (2-2). The German record champions announced this on Wednesday evening after an examination by the club’s medical department led by team doctor Dr. Jochen Hahne with. Bayern did not provide any further information about the downtime. They will have to “do without Serge Gnabry for the time being,” says Bayern’s statement.
Gnabry, who scored the 1-1 equalizer on Tuesday evening, only returned to the Munich squad at the beginning of March after a muscle injury. In London, the 28-year-old had to be treated on the pitch in the second half and then substituted (70th). A use in the second leg in a week in Munich is therefore ruled out. “He’s definitely out, that’s definitely an issue, we have to find a solution,” coach Thomas Tuchel said after the first leg.
Bitter for the striker: his prospects of being able to jump on the German national team’s European Championship bandwagon may have worsened considerably as a result of this new injury. National coach Julian Nagelsmann will announce the squad for the tournament in Germany (June 14th to July 14th) on May 17th. Gnabry had already missed the DFB team’s previous tests against the Netherlands (2-1) and in Lyon against France (2-0).
He will now probably have little opportunity to make a lasting impression on national coach Nagelsmann through appearances with FC Bayern in the Bundesliga or the Champions League. According to information from BILD, Gnabry has to take a break for up to three weeks.
