Bayern Munich’s understaffed defence has been dealt one other setback, with the membership confirming on Thursday centre-back Matthijs de Ligt shall be lacking “in the intervening time” with a knee harm.
The membership didn’t specify how lengthy de Ligt would spend on the sidelines, saying he was “out in the intervening time” and “shall be lacking from FC Bayern within the subsequent video games.”
Bayern journey to rivals Borussia Dortmund on Saturday.
The Netherlands central defender injured his proper knee as Bayern have been eradicated 2-1 to third-division Saarbrucken within the German Cup on Wednesday night time.
De Ligt, who has simply returned from an harm to the identical knee, grabbed his leg and signalled instantly to the bench 19 minutes into the match, earlier than being subbed out.
Midfielder Joshua Kimmich moved to centre-back, with Bayern having just one match central defender within the squad.
Bayern’s French centre-back Dayot Upamecano has missed the membership’s final 4 matches with a hamstring harm.
Supervisor Thomas Tuchel confirmed after the match de Ligt’s harm was to the “similar knee” and “was extraordinarily painful”.
Bayern took the lead by means of Thomas Muller after simply 16 minutes, however their third division opponents equalised in first-half harm time.
With the scores locked at 1-1 and the sport wanting set to go to additional time, Saarbrucken’s Marcel Gaus scored within the sixth minute of harm time to win.
The loss means 20-time German Cup winners Bayern have been eradicated within the second spherical in three of the previous 4 years.
Bayern sit second on the Bundesliga, two factors forward of Dortmund, and haven’t misplaced a conflict between the 2 sides since 2018.
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